The Amazing Meeting
| The Amazing Meeting | |
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| Status | Inactive |
| Genre | science and skepticism |
| Location(s) | Las Vegas, Nevada |
| Country | United States |
| Inaugurated | 2003 |
| Most recent | 2015 |
| Attendance | 1,650 in 2011 |
| Organized by | James Randi Educational Foundation |
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The Amazing Meeting (TAM), stylized as The Amaz!ng Meeting, was an annual conference that focuses on science, skepticism, and critical thinking. The conference started in 2003 and was sponsored by the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF). Perennial speakers included Penn & Teller,Phil Plait, Michael Shermer and James "The Amazing" Randi. Speakers at the four-day conference were selected from a variety of disciplines including scientific educators, magicians, and community activists. Outside the plenary sessions the conference included workshops, additional panel discussions, music and magic performances and live taping of podcasts including the The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe.
TAM was first held in 2003. When the CSICOP conferences entered a seven-year hiatus in 2005, TAM quickly filled the gap and grew out to become the largest U.S. skeptical conference.
The Skeptics Society and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry were co-sponsors of the event, providing both financial and promotional support.
People attended the conference for a variety of reasons. The Daily Beast reported that some saw themselves "as waging a broad, multifront battle to drag American culture, inch by inch, away from the nonscientific and the nonlogical". While the organizer of TAM London, Tracy King, said "People come to TAM because they want to learn and hear from leading speakers on subjects which interest them, but they want to have a good time doing it. Our mix of academics, comedians and writers ensures an incredible event where the public can meet like-minded people without feeling like being into science or geek stuff makes them a minority." Magicians were also given a central role at the conference.
Magazine The Skeptic from the Australian Skeptics gave a detailed account of all lectures from the 2010 OZ event.
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