Call for Papers:
NOTE: Any email sent to rhall@randi.org from July 20 through Agust 12 may have been lost. Please resend them.
Once again JREF is issuing a call for papers to those who would like to share their work or accomplishments at the third annual Amazing Meeting, January 13-16, 2005 in Las Vegas.
Anyone may submit a request to present a paper. If your proposal is accepted you will be allotted 20 minutes for your presentation and an additional 5 minutes for questions and comments from the audience.
Submission information:
Completed proposal forms should be sent to:
- Email: (preferred)
Prof. Ray Hall
rhall@randi.org
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Regular mail:
Prof. Ray Hall
Department of Physics
California State University, Fresno
2345 E. San Ramon Ave. M/S MH 037
Fresno, CA 93740-8031
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Fax:
559 278 7747
(please include a cover letter addressed to Ray Hall)
We will accept proposals until October 31, 2004 and will notify the selected speakers before December 1, 2004.
TAM3 Proposal forms:
Note that all selected presenters are responsible to pay for their own attendance including registration. JREF greatly appreciates your volunteer participation, but unfortunately cannot fund any part of your trip.
Relevant topics for papers include (but are not limited to): analysis of questionable claims, rational examination of claimed paranormal phenomena, ideas in critical thinking education, psychology of belief, or any of the usual topics found in Mr. Randi’s commentaries or that concern the JREF mission.
For reference, here is a list of the papers presented at the previous Amazing Meetings.
Papers from TAM II:
- The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics: Exposing Misconceptions Spread by Creationists
Lt. Col. Matt Morgan
United States Air Force Academy
- Demarcation: Is there a Sharp Line between Science and Pseudoscience?
Prof. Raymond Hall
Dept. of Physics, California State University, Fresno
- Skepticism and the Media: Making Your Voice Heard
David Ewalt
droppingscience.com
Papers from TAM I:
- The Age of the Earth
Prof. Ray Hall
Dept. of Physics, California State University, Fresno
- Educating College Students about Skepticism
Prof. Charles Wynn
Dept. of Physical Science, Eastern Connecticut State University
- The JREF Forum
Ms. Maira Benjamin
- They See Dead People— Or Do They?
Mr. Jim Underdown
Center for Inquiry West
- The Watson Card Problem
Prof. Jeff Corey
President, New York Area Skeptics (NYASk)
- An Empirical Investigation of the Effects of Penta Water
Mr. Greg Winslow
Specialty Sensor Technologies Inc
- Astronomy – The Ultimate Magic Show
Prof. John Brown
Astronomer Royal for Scotland
- Skeptics and Religion
Prof. Taner Edis
Dept. of Physics, Truman State University
