Elizabeth Weiss: Academic Conferences are a Scam

There's some truth in this. 

Though I expect it's largely a function of the fact that academia is something of a scam. And some disciplines contain substantial bullshit. And some of that bullshit is political bullshit. I'd expect e.g. sociology and education conferences to be worse, mainly because those disciplines are worse. I'd expect physics and math to be better, etc.

JMO