[escepticos] RV: Workshop Announcement...

[planetario@...>]

Puede que alguien se anime a participar en el Workshop. Por aqui abundan
quienes tiene en su cartera numerosos "misterios sin resolver" que, quien
sabe, podrian llegar a tener una respuesta en esta Reunion de Trabajo sobre
"Misterios resueltos".

Aviso: al estar "resueltos" no venden tanto como los "sin resolver", pero
esto es una cuestion economica, no intelectual.

Y otro aviso: como sin duda Iker se dara cuenta, la inscripcion es MUY cara
(en el caso mas economico, de unas 34.000 pesetas). Por lo que se, ademas,
tampoco se va a dedicar parte alguna de este dinero a salvar niños de
ninguna parte, con lo que, sin duda, es algo muy criticable lo de esta
reunion... ;-)


javier armentia

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> De: James Randi --- Wizard <JREFInfo en ssr.com>
> Asunto: Workshop Announcement...
> Fecha: lunes 4 de agosto de 1997 8:27
> 
>      The James Randi Educational Foundation is pleased to announce a
> workshop for examining paranormal claims entitled: "Solved Mysteries".
> 
> SCIENCE ON THE EDGE
> 
> On a nationally televised program, with clenched fists and a forceful
> expression, a "psychic" appears to make a pencil spin with just his
> mind.  Children appear to be able to see pictures, text, and even
> symbols with only her fingers.  Throughout hospitals in the USA,
> nurses claim to be able to not only detect, but to manipulate powerful
> "human energy fields" with their hands.
> 
> Are we entering a whole new paradigm where the laws of nature are
> subject to wishful thinking?  Or is there something else at work here?
> 
> The James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) presents a seminar that
> will not only show us how to detect the underlying principles behind
> these and other claims, but how to test for them, and reasonably
> eliminate the potential for human error.
> 
> This is a hands-on, interactive, multi-media workshop that will allow
> participants to examine the best evidence for these claims and then
> develop methods to test them.
> 
> By the end of the seminar, even participants with no formal scientific
> training will be capable of conducting proper examinations of psychic
> claims and arriving at decisions that are authoritative and valuable.
> 
> In addition, research psychologist Dr. Suzanne Hadley will show us how
> to quantify and assess the data in a painless approach to statistics.
> 
> Participants are encouraged to bring video cameras, still cameras,
> and/or audio recorders.  Informal dress is recommended, and should be
> suitable for somewhat cool evenings.
> 
> WHAT WILL BE EXAMINED
> 
>  o How you can establish proper, adequate controls without
> elaborate equipment or facilities
> 
>  o  How you can judge whether people are being deceptive or
> whether they are really deceiving themselves 
> 
>  o  Dowsers say they can detect objects or substances by means
> of a forked stick, a pendulum, a pair of stiff wires, or some
> other "magic wand" that moves in response to a mysterious
> force.  What is really moving the device, and how do we
> definitively test the claim?
> 
>  o  Some of the devious techniques people have attempted to use
> to win the Foundation's million-dollar prize
> 
>  o  "Psychics" are able to duplicate drawings  secretly made by
> another person.  Watch this miracle closeup and decide what
> can be done to solve and control this feat -- unless it is
> really a violation of Nature....
> 
> 
>  o A psychic causes objects to roll about dramatically on a
> sheet of plastic.  What is at work here, and can we control --
> and duplicate -- the stunt?
> 
> ACTIVITIES
> Friday     7pm-9pm      Reception with James Randi
> 
> Saturday 8 am-9 am     Light Breakfast
>          9 am-12 pm   Examining the Evidence:
>                       Calculating the Odds
>                         with Dr. Suzanne Hadley
>                       Solving the Deception
>                         with James Randi 
>          12-1:30 pm         Lunch
>          1:30-5 pm    Designing Protocols:
>                           Controlling Against Trickery
>          8 pm               Dinner
> 
> Sunday  8 am-9 am       Full Breakfast 
>         9 am-12 pm    Summary and Observations    
>                      a one-on-one discussion with James Randi 
>                                                              
>                   
> 
>  Seminar Registration
>  Call the JREF at 1 (954) 467-1112
> 
>  Now until August 14
>       Members $220
>       Non-members $245
> 
>  After August 14
>        Members $245
>        Non-members $270
> 
>  After September 14
>         Members $270
>         Non-members $295
> 
> Hotel Reservations
> Wyndham Hotel - Fort Lauderdale Airport
> 1825 Griffin Rd.
> Dania, Florida 33004
> Reservation Department: 1 (800) 947-8527
> 
> Identify yourself as part of the "James Randi Workshop." 
> Single and double occupancy rooms  are $79 per night + 11% 
> tax  reserved before October 10, 1997