{"id":722,"date":"2010-06-06T07:20:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T21:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=722"},"modified":"2010-06-06T07:22:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T21:22:10","slug":"tamoz-445-per-ticket-huh-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=722","title":{"rendered":"TAMoz: $445 per ticket? Huh? No."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/footbullet.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tamaustralia.org\">The Amazing Meeting\/Oz<\/a>, featuring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tamaustralia.org\/index.php\/speakers\">speakers<\/a> like James Randi, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, Dr Rachael Dunlop and many more, will surely be enjoyable and educational.<\/p>\n<p>However- the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tamaustralia.org\/index.php\/registration\">ticket price<\/a> is $445 (a bit less if you are a student or an Australian Skeptics member)! Sorry TAMoz, that&#8217;s just wacky. Let&#8217;s think about what $445 will buy in Australia: 6 weeks&#8217; groceries for this household of two, four new car tyres, a new PC, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it all depends on what the intent of the conference may be. I&#8217;d <em>hope<\/em> that what is intended is to spread the notions of skeptical and critical thinking. However, $445 is a price which is going to prevent quite a number of people who are already sympathetic to skepticism from attending- those who are new to the ideas would almost certainly reject that price out of hand.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry TAMoz, you&#8217;ve priced even this sympathetic skeptic out of the market. I hope those attending all have a lovely time, but I think you&#8217;re shooting the skeptical movement in your own two feet. At $445 a ticket, TAMoz will merely attract a converted choir with significant disposable income. At that price, TAMoz is not going to spread skeptical and critical thinking. Might keep the riff-raff like me out, though&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Amazing Meeting\/Oz, featuring speakers like James Randi, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, Dr Rachael Dunlop and many more, will surely be enjoyable and educational. However- the ticket price is $445 (a bit less if you are a student or an Australian Skeptics member)! Sorry TAMoz, that&#8217;s just wacky. Let&#8217;s think about what $445 will buy in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}