These are the panels I actually attended. Unfortunately I couldn’t physically sit through all the panels I wanted to see.

Friday:

  • Simon Singh talking about his libel court battle in London with the Chiropractics. Excellent.
  • Joe Nickell talking about his interviews with sham paranormal practitioners. Okay
  • Adam Savage talking about atheism and science. Great, but the best part was his response to the over-hostile moon landing conspiracy guy.
  • Skeptics Guide to the Universe Dinner. Mr. Deity.’nuff said.

Saturday:

  • James McGaha droning on and on about the improbability of aliens among us. And I mean drone.
  • Paranormal Investigations panel was pretty good.
  • Paul Provenza was funny. I may even spend a dime on his book Sataristas.
  • Skepchick Wild Wild West Bordello party was the shit. A little hot and crowded but lots of fun.

Sunday:

Was a day of papers. I only went to a couple as my back had had quite enough of that sitting thing. One was Dr. Ryan Shaffer talking about his investigation of Sylvia Browne. Proof that in 115 televised specific “predictions” she got zero correct. Or even close. The other was Kevin Folta pointing out that EVERYTHING we eat has been genetically altered in one way or another. Science is NOT teh evil. Did you know bananas originally had lots of seeds?

When I wasn’t at the conference, I was either at the pool or at the bar. What I really want to know is how, in the same general hot-as-shit environment as we have here, they keep their pool freezing cold. It must be magic.