How does someone become an "SD Science Advisory Board" member?

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@Una_Persson

I figure I’d better post, or people will keep on randomly guessing. Dex is no longer involved. Mail Ed Zotti or the general Straight Dope e-mail if you want to write a Staff Report. Ed is extremely busy from time to time, so you may need to give the mail a bump if he doesn’t reply. Perhaps two bumps.

@Colibri

Members of the SDSAB have access to questions sent in to Cecil. We can choose which questions we want to answer.

Dex used to send me questions he thought I had expertise on, but I was never sent something outside my field.

Pretty much. But although my main expertise is biology I have also done staff reports on Columbus and word origins.

Slightly conflicting answers. Do SDSAB-wannabe’s get to see the question list after [del]enough badgering[/del] politely emailing Ed & answer them or only gen-ewe-wine SDSAB members, who have also, I presume [del]survived[/del] partaken in the SDSAB initiation ceremony.