Atlanta had its first Skepticamp in February of 2009. It was covered in detail in Episode #97 of the Skepticality Podcast.

Contents

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Friday & Saturday, February 6th & 7th, 2009

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Doraville Civic Center Doraville, Georgia

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This is the final schedule.

edit Friday, February 6, 2009

Time Name Topic
6:45 PM Taylor Proctor Welcome/Overview/Rules
7:00 PM Brian Jones Logical Fallacies
7:30 PM Tim Farley One Year of Harm
8:00 PM Maria Walters 10 questions every skeptic will get asked (and how to answer them sort of diplomatically)
8:30 PM Blake Smith Lord Dufferin and the Truth
9:00 PM Skepticality and American Freethought Podcasts

edit Saturday, February 7, 2009

Time Name Topic
10:00 AM Taylor Proctor Welcome/Overview/Rules
10:30 AM Simon Menanteau-Ledouble A short introduction to the Scientific Method with special consideration to its application on the Theory of Evolution
11 - 11:15 AM BREAK
11:15 AM Scott Little The Detox Myth
12:00 AM Jerry Jobe Applied Kinesiology
1215-1230 GROUP PHOTO
12:30 PM LUNCH BREAK 1230 PM - 130 PM (Lunch provided for all)
1:30 PM Andrew Sevrinsky Evolution is a Fact
2:00 PM Christian Walters Designing Online Info
2:30-2:45 PM BREAK
2:45 PM Veronica Robertson Organic Food: Is it really better?
3:15 PM Heidi Anderson Skeptics Guide to Parenting
3:45 PM Lisa Hammett Genetics and Molecular Biology in only 30 minutes.
4:15 PM Rich Hammett Neuroscience, neural plasticity, and dane bramage
4:15 - 4:30 PM BREAK
4:30 PM Stephen King Theater superstitions
LAST Taylor Proctor Looking back at SkeptiCamp

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edit Contact

  • Lead Organizer/Set Up: Taylor Proctor- AtlantaSkeptics@gmail.com
  • Volunteer Coordinator/Clean Up/Misc: Maria Walters
  • Sign In/Scheduling/Timing: Daphne Ross
  • T-shirts: Irena Rowe
  • Food/Drinks: Lisa Hammett
  • Computer/Wireless: Tim Farley
  • Sound: Justin/Scott Little
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