Event Listing
Skeptics in the Pub- Matt Parker, the Stand-up Mathematician
Clutching at Random Straws
Did aliens help prehistoric Britons found the ancient Woolworth's civilization? Matt the 'Stand-up Mathematician' will look at how seemingly incredible results can actually be meaningless random patterns.
Find out more about Matt at http://www.standupmat...
Manchester SitP Social
If you're of a skeptical or scientific mindset and enjoy good company and good beers, come and join us for the third Manchester Skeptics in the Pub Social.
We'll be meeting in Sandbar, which is located very near to Oxford Road train station and only a 12-minute walk from Piccadilly. It's a brilliant bar with plenty of great beers at a reasonable price, and a 10% discount at the bar for SitP attendees with a namebadge!
There will be no speaker at this event, just good company and interesting conversation. Entry is free, and we'll be there from about 19:15 onwards. It is also a good opportunity to offer any suggestions for speakers, or other Greater Manchester Skeptics ideas you may have.
We hope to see you there!
Manchester SitP Social
If you're of a skeptical or scientific mindset and enjoy good company and good beers, come and join us for the third Manchester Skeptics in the Pub Social.
We'll be meeting in Sandbar, which is located very near to Oxford Road train station and only a 12-minute walk from Piccadilly. It's a brilliant bar with plenty of great beers at a reasonable price, and a 10% discount at the bar for SitP attendees with a namebadge!
There will be no speaker at this event, just good company and interesting conversation. Entry is free, and we'll be there from about 19:15 onwards. It is also a good opportunity to offer any suggestions for speakers, or other Greater Manchester Skeptics ideas you may have.
We hope to see you there!
Skeptics in the Pub - Karen Douglas
Karen Douglas received her PhD in social psychology from the Australian National University and has worked in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. She is currently a senior lecturer at the University of Kent. Karen's research examines the psychological factors underlying people's beliefs in conspiracy theories. She is also interested in language and communication, persuasion and attitude change, and justice beliefs. Karen's research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the British Academy. She has published her work widely in social psychological journals and books.
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10 Thomas St, Manchester M4 1DH, UKManchester SitP Social
If you're of a skeptical or scientific mindset and enjoy good company and good beers, come and join us for the third Manchester Skeptics in the Pub Social.
We'll be meeting in Sandbar, which is located very near to Oxford Road train station and only a 12-minute walk from Piccadilly. It's a brilliant bar with plenty of great beers at a reasonable price, and a 10% discount at the bar for SitP attendees with a namebadge!
There will be no speaker at this event, just good company and interesting conversation. Entry is free, and we'll be there from about 19:15 onwards. It is also a good opportunity to offer any suggestions for speakers, or other Greater Manchester Skeptics ideas you may have.
We hope to see you there!
Skeptics in the Pub - Martin Robbins
Martin Robbins is a science writer and freelance journalist covering science, skepticism and politics at The Guardian, The Lay Scientist and beyond!
In this talk Martin will give us a more global view of homeopathy, crackpots abroad and Bad Science in the developing world. He will cover Homeopaths in Haiti and Africa, AIDS denialism, how alt med props up the Cuban healthcare system, anti-vaccination movements in Africa and Asia, dodgy bomb-detectors, and a plethora of other stories about quacks amok in the third world.
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mjrobbins.netManchester SitP Social- August
If you're of a skeptical or scientific mindset and enjoy good company and good beers, come and join us for the third Manchester Skeptics in the Pub Social.
We'll be meeting in Sandbar, which is located very near to Oxford Road train station and only a 12-minute walk from Piccadilly. It's a brilliant bar with plenty of great beers at a reasonable price, and a 10% discount at the bar for SitP attendees with a namebadge!
There will be no speaker at this event, just good company and interesting conversation. Entry is free, and we'll be there from about 19:15 onwards. It is also a good opportunity to offer any suggestions for speakers, or other Greater Manchester Skeptics ideas you may have.
We hope to see you there!
Skeptics in the Pub - August Soapbox Special
Inspired by the great Soapbox guests we've had on the Just Skeptics Podcast so far, for August's SitP, we'll be having a special 'Soapbox' edition. There'll be 3-4 mini-rants on diverse topics currently unexplored at our speaker events. This would be the perfect event to bring along skeptical newbies, as there'll be breaks, and a broad range of topics!
Topics announced!
We'll be treated to the following talks, from regular Just Skeptics soapbox guests Allan and Rick, alongside resident blogger extraordinaire Xtal Dave, and the InKredulous Andy Wilson of the Merseyside Skeptics Society and the 1023 Campaign.
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Allan Callister: Quantum Touch
'Xtal' Dave Briggs: The Amazing Power of Crystals
Rick Owen: The Safety Dance
Andy Wilson: 5 Batty Bits of Business BullshitManchester SitP Social- July
If you're of a skeptical or scientific mindset and enjoy good company and good beers, come and join us for the third Manchester Skeptics in the Pub Social.
We'll be meeting in Sandbar, which is located very near to Oxford Road train station and only a 12-minute walk from Piccadilly. It's a brilliant bar with plenty of great beers at a reasonable price, and a 10% discount at the bar for SitP attendees with a namebadge!
There will be no speaker at this event, just good company and interesting conversation. Entry is free, and we'll be there from about 19:15 onwards. It is also a good opportunity to offer any suggestions for speakers, or other Greater Manchester Skeptics ideas you may have.
We hope to see you there!
July SitP: Matthew Cobb
Jan Swammerdam, mystical materialist.
Jan Swammerdam (1637-1680) was a renowned microscopist, anatomist and experimenter who lived in the Dutch Republic, and is now largely forgotten. But he helped contribute to one of the most important breakthroughs in the history of science - understanding where life comes from. Not only did he show that "all animals come from an egg laid by a female of the same species", he was also part of a small group that made the amazing discovery that women have eggs. But Swammerdam was not a modern day life scientist transposed back to the time of Rembrandt and Vermeer. He was a product of his time, profoundly mystical and deeply religious - he even gave up science for a couple of years, in order to join a bizarre sect that believed that Adam and Eve were hermaphrodites. By looking at his life, work and opinions, we can see that the road to the full development of scientific, rational thinking was not straightforward, and involved people who simultaneously believed in completely contradictory things.
Matthew Cobb is an acclaimed science-communicator, scientist and writer who spent most of his adult life living in Paris, where he worked as a scientist and spent a great deal of time active in far-left politics. His day-job is studying the sense of smell in fruitfly maggots, and being in charge of Manchester University's Zoology degree. He also studies the history of science, and recently published a book ("Generation" in the US, "The Egg & Sperm Race" in the UK and Commonwealth). He also writes regularly on science and historical issues for the LA Times and the Times Literary Supplement.