# SDSAB **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 25, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdsab/241961 "2004-04-25T21:27:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdsab/241961/21 "2004-07-21T05:58:05Z")
**CKDH** , you doing them under the name Dex? Or is that yet someone else? Can’t wait to see **Una** ’s new stuff. Always some very impressive research in those. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdsab/241961/22 "2004-07-21T14:39:01Z")
Yes, “Dex” is me. I’m known to my friends as “Dex”, and Ed finds it easier to type rather than my whole full name. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdsab/241961/23 "2004-09-21T22:44:53Z")
My thanks to ALL the SDSAB for their hard work and information I couldn’t get anywhere else! Question: how do I use this information as a reference? ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdsab/241961/24 "2005-04-29T18:23:53Z")
Question: How does one go about joining the SDSAB? In a few years I’ll have quite a bit of expertise on physics in particular (once I’m well under way on my PhD), as well as assorted other disciplines. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdsab/241961/25 "2005-04-29T20:45:39Z")
Send an email to Dex at [CKDextHavn@aol.com](mailto:CKDextHavn@aol.com). Put “SDSAB/Staff Reports” in the subject line so he’ll know what it’s about, we get a lot of email. Tell him you’d like to try your hand at writing and what would it take? He’ll get you started. your humble TubaDiva ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdsab/241961/26 "2005-04-29T22:06:49Z")
You don’t actually join the SDSAB so much as it joins you. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdsab/241961/27 "2005-04-30T01:26:03Z")
> [@C K Dexter Haven](#): > > You don’t actually join the SDSAB so much as it joins you. It’s like being one of the “family.” _nudge, nudge. Wink, wink._ ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdsab/241961/28 "2005-05-02T03:44:06Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > It’s like being one of the “family.” _nudge, nudge. Wink, wink._ More like being Assimilated by the Borg. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdsab/241961/29 "2005-05-03T21:08:32Z")
Hey, I _was_ **Admiral Borg** when I was first on the boards. I know a thing or two about assimilation. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdsab/241961/30 "2005-05-03T21:43:03Z")
If I recall correctly SDSAB is somewhat of a misnomer, unless you mean the archaic use of ‘science’ to mean any sort of special wisdom and learning. Haven’t we got some SDSAB members who are not physical scientists or engineers, but historians, litterati, and so forth? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdsab/241961/31 "2005-05-03T23:17:52Z")
> [@Spectre of Pithecanthropus](#): > > If I recall correctly SDSAB is somewhat of a misnomer, unless you mean the archaic use of ‘science’ to mean any sort of special wisdom and learning. Haven’t we got some SDSAB members who are not physical scientists or engineers, but historians, litterati, and so forth? I think the “archaic” useage is apt. Cecil is archaic, and we follow suit. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdsab/241961/32 "2005-05-04T16:50:56Z")
instead of devoting a sticky to the subject, the title might be changed to Science Advisory/Advisor/whatever. after all you don’t see SDA, SDM, SDMBCM, SDMBM etc. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdsab/241961/33 "2005-05-04T17:43:52Z")
But we _like_ having people talk about us! ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdsab/241961/34 "2005-05-04T22:47:02Z")
Like those in academia, where the disputes are so intense because the stakes are so low. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdsab/241961.md?page=1)