Last weekend I was in NYC attending the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism, aka NECSS. It was a lot of fun, as I kinda figured it would be. Skeptic conferences usually are! And of course ...

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Outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins says a lot of things that people find offensive, but apparently the last straw came when he dared to share a parody video that criticized feminism. Dawkins’ ...

New York City was recently the host to the North East Conference on Science and Skepticism, or NECSS which is pronounced "nexus." NECSS ran over three days and included some great events outside of ...

The critical thinking meeting season is about to kick off, and the first big one in the US is NECSS: The Northeast Conference for Science and Skepticism. It’s from April 9 - 10 in New York City, and ...

Controversial atheist Richard Dawkins has been dumped as the keynote speaker at an upcoming New York City sceptics conference after he praised a video equating feminism with radical Islamism. "We have ...

Skeptical singer songwriter and BA friend George Hrab was at NECSS. On Geo's last album, "Trebuchet", he wrote a tune called "Death from the Skies" -- based on the brilliant book of the same name. He ...