Skeptic Conference Battles Sexual Harassment Allegations

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1. Thanks to DJ Grothe

The issue at the core is that the James Randi Education Foundation (JREF) president DJ Grothe utterly failed on this. He should have taken immediate action to remedy the growing reports of women being targeted at TAM.

When multiple attempts to engage the JREF on these issues resulted in more denial, Rebecca Watson took the action she did. Other of the Skepchicks will attend, however.

I fully support Rebecca's action and I condemn DJ Grothe for being a jerk about something that could have been easily remedied. DJ Grothe should step down as JREF president. I put all of this on him and him alone. He literally turned this into a very big problem.

on edit: I find the characterization of skepticism as a religion to be very offensive. Whoever wrote that apparently doesn't know what skepticism is. Many, if not most, skeptics are non-religious. Calling it a religion is just wrong on so many levels.

Skepticism can be fairly characterized as a support for science, methodological naturalism. N.B., not necessarily philosophical naturalism.