{"id":29494,"date":"2010-10-17T08:12:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T08:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/skepticamp-invading-the-great-white-north-on-october-23\/"},"modified":"2010-10-17T08:12:38","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T08:12:38","slug":"skepticamp-invading-the-great-white-north-on-october-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/medicine\/skepticamp-invading-the-great-white-north-on-october-23.php","title":{"rendered":"Skepticamp: Invading the Great White North on October 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7186 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2ca93_skepticamp.png\" alt=\"skepticamp\" width=\"356\" height=\"86\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p>Are you frustrated by the prevalence of pseudoscience in medicine? Are you interested in critical thinking and science? Is SBM your rational refuge?&nbsp; Want to meet like-minded science advocates? On October 23, 2010 four Skepticamps will take place across Canada. If you enjoy reading this blog, you&rsquo;ll probably enjoy Skepticamp.<\/p><p>Happily, Skepticamp involves no actual camping. It&rsquo;s a flexibly organized, collaborative conference on science and critical thinking. <a href=\"http:\/\/skepticamp.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Skepticamp<\/a> is not your typical medical conference with high fees, bad PowerPoint, long talks and little interaction with speakers. Skepticamps are open, collaborative, interactive, and FREE.<\/p><p>Here are the four events, and a few of the SBM-related highlights.<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"http:\/\/vancouver.skepticamp.org\/\">Vancouver<\/a>: ear candling; dopamine as an explanatory model for superstition; and SBM copy editor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencebasedmedicine.org\/?page_id=222\">Paul Ingraham<\/a> speaking about his first year as an alternative medicine apostate.<\/li><li> <a href=\"http:\/\/skepticamp.org\/wiki\/SkeptiCamp_Winnipeg\">Winnipeg<\/a>: fad diets and detoxes; homeopathy; and the continued relevance of vaccinations<\/li><li> <a href=\"http:\/\/skepticamp.org\/wiki\/SkeptiCamp_Ottawa_2010\">Ottawa:<\/a> self-help cults; genes and inherited diseases; science denial; and forensic science<a href=\"http:\/\/skepticamp.org\/wiki\/SkeptiCamp_Ottawa_2010\"> <\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/skepticamp.org\/wiki\/SkeptiCamp_Toronto\">Toronto<\/a>: I&rsquo;ll be speaking about natural health product regulation. Other talks include a guide to the medical literature; the cognitive underpinnings of sympathetic magic; and naturopathy.<\/li><\/ul><p>If there&rsquo;s one near you, consider attending Skepticamp on October 23. Given it&rsquo;s free, Skepticamp offers tremendous value-for-money. We invite our American colleagues to grab their passports, make a break for the border, and keep driving until there are <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tim_Hortons\">Tim Hortons<\/a> everywhere. 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Are you interested in critical thinking and science? Is SBM your rational refuge?&nbsp; Want to meet like-minded science advocates? On October 23, 2010 four Skepticamps will take place across Canada. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/medicine\/skepticamp-invading-the-great-white-north-on-october-23.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicine"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}