Read SKEPTIC magazine's take on TABOO and Jon's article on 'censorship, race and sports'

1:00pm, Sunday, Sept. 17, 2000
CalTech Campus
Baxter Lecture Hall
Skeptics Society:
(626) 794-3119
Skepticmag@aol.com

The Skeptics Society is not afraid to talk about it. In fact, we welcome open debate and dialogue on such controversies. Join us for an afternoon of intelligent conversation featuring:

Jon Entine
Author of Taboo: Why Blacks Dominate Sports and Why We're Afraid to Talk About it, Entine wrote and produced the widely acclaimed 1989 NBC television special with Tom Brokaw on black athletes, which was chosen as the international sports film of the year and eventually led to the publication of this book. An Emmy-winning producer for NBC and ABC News and winner of a National Press Club Award, Entine writes for newspapers and magazines around the world.

Alondra Oubre
Dr. Oubre received her Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology at U.C. Berkeley and is a biomedical research consultant and writer. She is the author of Instinct and Revelation, that examined the evolution of the hominid brain, the emergence of human consciousness, and the origins of the religious impulse. Her next book is Race, Genes, and Ability: Rethinking Ethnic Differences, in which she explores the science behind biological and cultural differences between groups of people.

Yehudi Webster
Dr. Webster is a professor in the Sociology Department at California State University, Los Angeles. He holds degrees from Warwick University, London University, and Warsaw University. He is the author of The Racialization of America, which was selected as the Outstanding Book published in 1992 on Human Rights in the United States. His latest book is Against the Multicultural Agenda: A Critical Thinking Alternative. In both books he challenges traditional notions of race and racial differences.

Vince Sarich
Dr. Sarich has been a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology at U.C. Berkeley since 1966, teaching courses in Physical Anthropology, Human Variation in an Evolutionary perspective, and Evolution of Human Behavior. His current work centers on racial variation within the human species, and he participated in the Skeptics Society and Skeptic magazine symposium on race and I.Q., and most recently contributed to Skeptic's special issue on race and sports.

Moderated by Michael Shermer
Dr. Shermer is the Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the Director of the Skeptics Society, and the Host of the Skeptics Caltech Lecture Series. He had a ten year career as a professional ultra-marathon cyclist, in which he founded and raced in five times the 3,000-mile, nonstop, transcontinental bicycle Race Across America. He is the author of three books on bicycle racing, Sport Cycling, Cycling: Endurance and Speed, and Race Across America, and wrote an analysis of race and sports for a special issue of Skeptic, entitled "Blood, Sweat, and Fears."

Directions: Off the 210 freeway in Pasadena, south on Lake Ave., left on Del Mar, right on Michigan, park in faculty parking lot. Baxter is to the southeast of the big white round building, Beckman Auditorium.

Donation at the door: $8.00 nonmembers, $5.00 members. Caltech/JPL community free.