Melissa Thompson has a very good post about the brutality and irrationality of call-out culture. See also this older post by Flavia Dzodan. Call-out culture – in...
Read MoreI’ll be heading to Canberra to attend Conflux 9 from April 25 to 28. Conflux 9 is this year’s national science fiction convention, here in Australia. The...
Read MoreOver here, Justin Vacula has a useful post about conduct policies at conventions. There is one misconception in Justin’s post, and it’s worth focusing on...
Read MoreTime to wrap this up, though there is doubtless much more we could discuss – do comment here or one on one of the previous posts in this series. I at least wanted...
Read MoreYesterday I wrote a post in which I explicitly announced a change of mind. I defended a relatively narrow remit for the scientific skeptic movement, that remit being...
Read MoreMuch of my time over the last two or three months has been spent in reading, considering, and (privately) debating the large pile of material submitted for the annual...
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