Back in the 1980s, many people came to believe in an international network of powerful individuals who regularly engaged in rituals involving Satan worship, human and animal sacrifice, group sex, paedophilia, forced abortions, cannibalism, and so on. This talk will discuss some of the lessons that we should learn from the Satanic Panic – and the very real possibility that it could happen again.

This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.

Based on his new book, Professor Rory O’Connor will try to dispel myths around suicide and to describe the complex set of factors that can lead to it, drawing from the Integrated Motivational-Volitional Model of Suicide. The talk will also include an overview of what we can do to support those who are vulnerable.

This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.

If you have cancer and you live in a low or middle-income country, you’re unlikely to have access to the radiotherapy treatments that patients in higher-income countries take for granted. A global collaboration is aiming to change the current status quo.

This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.

This summer’s protests over the police killings of George Floyd and other African American citizens have refocused the nation’s attention on the problem of abusive policing and its connection to larger issues of racial justice. The protesters’ demands raise a question: Can the police be reformed?

This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.

The BBC’s first-ever specialist disinformation and social media reporter, Marianna Spring, has spent the past year down the online conspiracy rabbit hole, investigating the real-world impact of disinformation being shared on social media. What’s it like speaking to the victims and leaders of these online conspiracy networks – and what’s the best approach?

This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.

The current pandemic is notable for the vast traffic in official and unofficial information and claims. David will offer some personal insights into the challenges of trying to bring some illumination to the statistics about the pandemic, illustrated with some examples of things that have gone fairly well, and communication disasters.

This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.

Eliot Higgins explains how his team uncovered the Skripal suspects, linked them to another assassination attempt, uncovered Russia’s secret Novichok programme, exposed the FSB team that poisoned Alexei Navalny, and uncovered a Russian domestic nerve agent assassination programme, from the comfort of their own homes.

This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.

Join host Andy Wilson for another live-streamed episode of the skeptical-themed panel show InKredulous.

This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.

For 100 years, a small, secretive group have decided what you can see in UK cinemas, on video and on DVD. Jim Cliff explains the origins and methods of the Board, and offers insights into his time as an examiner, the shift from censorship to classification, and how a cut he requested in ‘Lilo & Stitch’ led to an offshoot of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory almost 20 years later.

This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.