I've long been peeved by the ambiguity of phrases like the name of this club. What's so secret? Is it a secret club about open science? Or is it an open club about secret science? Maybe it's a nonexistent club about the science of contradiction.

The Secret Science Club is a free science lecture and arts series. It is open to the public and meets the first Wednesday of every month in the basement of Union Hall in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

So how do you keep the science secret? If you read the article by Thomas Powers about the Nine little words in the NIE, then you know that

One of the basic laws of intelligence is that no big secret can be kept that can be written on the back of an envelope.

So I guess these secrets must be like the toner in The Diamond Age:

"See, there's mites around all the time. They use sparkles to talk to each other," Harv explained. "They're in the food and water, everywhere. And there's rules that these mites are supposed to follow. They're supposed to break down into safe pieces... But there are people who break those rules [so the] Protocol Enforcement guys make a mite to go out and find that mite and kill it. This dust - we call it toner - is actually the dead bodies of all those mites.