This past Friday, TED sent out a mass email to TEDx organizers, ominously titled "A letter to the TEDx community on TEDx and bad science." TED, which has become synonymous with "big ideas," is getting serioius about fighting the pseudoscience which had been given nearly free rein at its regional TEDx conferences. After pointing to an angry /r/science thread on Reddit, the letter took a hard line: "It is your job, before any speaker is booked, to check them out, and to reject bad science, pseudoscience and health hoaxes." If anything slipped through, TED wrote, it would be grounds for revoking an organizer's license.
The event closed with the chanting of mantras and songs for Gaia
But keeping hucksters off TED stages is harder than it...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/10/3751786/ted-pseudoscience-valencia-carlzimmer-tedx
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