In a very brave act of reporting, Vice's Brendan Montague risked his own sanity by attending the Heartland Institute's recent conference in Las Vegas.
His efforts yielded a great story detailing the majesty of the event, from descriptions of the "run down" hotel to the attendees who wandered its halls. These participants might envision themselves misunderstood geniuses comparable to Galileo, but the story reports they looked more like "sad sacks."
Notable events include an outburst by Climategate-breaking journalist James Delingpole after being asked how many study abstracts he's read lately (the answer is zero).