I'd mentioned before that the Royal Ontario Museum was sponsoring a talk by that pseudoscientific goober, Deepak Chopra — perhaps Ken Ham had been unavailable — and as you might guess, quite a few people are dumbfounded that a respected museum was bringing in a quack. You can help protest: Larry Moran has a letter to the Director of the ROM, and you can add a signature to it.
I've been to the ROM, and it's excellent — there is no pandering to quacks there. I have to wonder who made this awful decision…and I wouldn't be surprised if it weren't some non-scientist in marketing.
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