Today's Telegraph (U.K.) features more outstanding skeptical advocacy and consumer information by the Good Thinking Society. The GTS reported on a shady May 4th conference featuring purveyors of alternative cancer treatments.  The group was able to obtain a recording of the presentation, relate the misinformation presented, and warn cancer sufferers that these products pushed by unqualified individuals are potentially dangerous.

The Society's founder, Simon Singh, will be at TAM this year to talk about skeptical activism and also be part of the special math-themed session in honor of Martin Gardner. 

Simon will be presenting on the main stage as an individual speaker as well as on a panel discussion. Simon will also be hosting a panel during the workshop session with Sharon Hill and Susan Gerbic on Practical Skepticism — Promoting Everyday Good Thinking. You can see the tentative schedule here.

We are EXCITED to bring you creative, new and different ideas to TAM this year. One of these great ideas is Gapminder.

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Gapminder, founded in Stockholm by Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Hans Rosling in 2005, is a non-profit venture promoting increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.

All three founders will be at TAM this year to speak on the project to fight devastating ignorance with a fact-based worldview that everyone can understand. 

Gapminder started the Ignorance Project to investigate what the public know and don’t know about basic global patterns and macro-trends. Surveys are used to ask representative groups of people simple questions about key-aspects of global development. When large knowledge-gaps are found, teaching materials can be developed in those areas.

Check out Hans' talk on TED.

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