I wonder how these pitches are reviewed and accepted. It's well possible for an unconscious bias to seep in and taint your perception of someone's work. It br

I wonder how these pitches are reviewed and accepted. It's well possible for an unconscious bias to seep in and taint your perception of someone's work. It brings to mind things like this: http://www.aas.org/cswa/status/1999/JANUARY1999/BehindTheScenes.html http://www.aas.org/cswa/status/1999/JANUARY1999/BehindTheSce... Then again, with the kind of heat conference heads have on them now, I bet they ARE doing something like this, if not actively making quotas.