Posted by Hemant Mehta in The Amaz!ng Meeting 5, the annual celebration of skepticism put together by the James Randi Educational Foundation, is only weeks away!
You know you want to go. It’s in Vegas!
The list of speakers includes
- Christopher Hitchens, columnist at Vanity Fair, Slate, and The Nation
- Penn and Teller
- Peter Sagal, host of Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!
- Lori Lipman Brown of the Secular Coalition for America
- Scott Dikkers, editor-in-chief of The Onion
- Julia Sweeney
And this just in… tentative speakers now also include Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of South Park!
Go register here.
Details: The event takes Thursday, January 18 through Sunday, January 21 at the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
And the Riviera has extended the special TAM5 room rate of $89/night until January 4! You have a week to update your schedules. Get to it.
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