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  1. Jonathan Jarry: The Blinding Light of Sophisticated Pseudoscience

    Alternative medicine proponents have become really good at building a body of research that looks more and more like good science to the casual observer. In the face of positive randomized clinical trials, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, the skeptic’s approach has to become more sophisticated to crack this façade of believability. We will go through three cases that illustrate how convincing the evidence for pseudoscience looks and what’s actually happening under the bonnet.

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

    7:00PM Thursday 16 April 2020 Twitch
  2. Jim Al-Khalili: The World According to Physics

    Where does theoretical physics stand at the end of the second decade of the 21st century? While what we do know is dazzlingly impressive, there is much we have yet to grasp, from the nature of space and time to the meaning quantum mechanics. This whistle-stop tour of modern physics is an appraisal of what we know and what we have yet to figure out.

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

    7:00PM Thursday 9 April 2020 Twitch
  3. Denialism — What’s the Alternative?

    Keith Kahn-Harris argues that to really understand denialism, we have to face up to what he calls 'the deniers alternative'. In thinking about how to combat denialism, we have to consider whether a world without it might not be a truth-filled utopia, but something even worse.

    7:45PM Thursday 20 February 2020 The Britons Protection
  4. Circular Reasoning: The Rise of Flat Earth Belief

    In 2013, when Michael Marshall first interviewed the Vice President of the Flat Earth society, people could scarcely believe that anyone could genuinely think the Earth was flat. Five years later, Flat Earth belief has gone mainstream. How did we get here?

    7:30PM Thursday 23 January 2020 The King's Arms
  5. The AI Does Not Hate You

    The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made of atoms which it can use for something else. This is a talk about AI and AI risk. Along the way, we discover how a more rational approach to life could be what saves us all.

    7:30PM Monday 16 December 2019 The King's Arms
  6. Fascist Thought in Britain: Past & Present

    Focusing on several Anglo-German examples, this talk will explore the links between elements of fascist thinking in the past and present, British influences on the development of Nazi ideology, and the legacies of these ideas in politics today

    7:30PM Thursday 14 November 2019 The Britons Protection
  7. Fantastic Beasts and Why to Conserve Them

    Dr Caroline Ward is here to tell us about how conservation efforts can be helped and hindered when the local population believes the animal you're protecting is magic.

    7:30PM Thursday 10 October 2019 The King's Arms
  8. Matt Tompkins: The Spectacle of Illusion

    Is seeing believing? Is believing seeing? How can we conduct experiments on things that only exist within our minds, and can scientists ever be trusted to study deception without being deceived themselves? What can we learn about the mind from the illusions developed by magicians? Join magician and experimental psychologist Dr. Matthew L. Tompkins, author of The Spectacle of Illusion, for a fascinating talk on the psychology of magic.

    7:30PM Thursday 26 September 2019 The King's Arms
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