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Written by Amardeo Sarma
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Sunday, 11 March 2007 |
ECSO Symposium 2006 in Spain
Sat, Sept 9th, 2006:
16.00: Opening Session (Fernando Frías, Amardeo Sarma)
16.30: The Fabricated Cosmonaut and the Nonexistent Prophecy (Luis Alfonso Gámez).
17.30: The Turin Burial Cloth (Amardeo Sarma)
18.30 Break
19.00 Informal ECSO meeting
19.30: The Power of the Mind: Deceptions and Self-Deceptions (Juan Soler).
Sun, Sept 10th, 2006:
10.00: Combatting Nonsense (Ludek Pekárek)
11.00: Pseudoscience in Europe (Round Table)
12.00: Presentation of the Magazines "Pensar" and "Skeptical Inquirer".
12.30: Closing Session
The symposium took place in the small city of Alfaz del Pi, near
Benidorm and Alicante in Spain. It was organized by the Spanish group
Circulo escéptico. Special thanks go to Fernando Frías, who was the local
organizer. The symposium was attended by ca. 20 people on Saturday, and
ca. 12-14 persons on Sunday. Foreign visitors came from the Czech Republic
(L. Pekárek) and Germany (A. Sarma, M. Mahner). The event was
announced/covered by two local/regional newspapers. The presentation of
the magician J. Soler was taped by a local TV station, because he
demonstrated various magic tricks used by Geller and others.
Despite the low international attendance this first time, it is in
principle a good idea to hold ECSO symposia in different countries,
for it gives us the opportunity to get to know better the national
skeptics organizations.
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