TEDx tries to stamp out bad science in its own ranks

This past Friday, TED sent out a mass email to TEDx organizers, ominously titled "A letter to the TEDx community on TEDx and bad science." TED, which has become synonymous with "big ideas," is getting serioius about fighting the pseudoscience which had been given nearly free rein at its regional TEDx conferences. After pointing to an angry /r/science thread on Reddit, the letter took a hard line: "It is your job, before any speaker is booked, to check them out, and to reject bad science, pseudos...