Skeptics with a K: Episode #116
Posted by admin in Podcast, Skeptics with a K on February 27, 2014
Married exorcists, lying calendars, overstimulated babies and dodgy hips. Plus snakes, swaddling, submarines and spaceport. From the year AD 1717, it’s Skeptics with a K.
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:09:46 — 16.4MB)
Be Reasonable: Episode #014 – Lembit Öpik
Posted by admin in Be Reasonable, Podcast on February 25, 2014
Former Lib Dem MP, Lembit Öpik is probably already a familiar face after appearances on Have I Got News For You and I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! However, you may not know that he is also a champion for near-earth object studies and a UFOlogist at the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena. He talks to Be Reasonable about what this involves.
Podcast: Download (Duration: 27:36 — 6.3MB)
Lifting The Lid: Ongoing adventures in the world of pseudoscience
Posted by Marsh in Skepticism on February 20, 2014
It’s been a little while since I’ve written a new Skeptics in the Pub talk, but I’ve recently been inspired to put something new together on the topic of hands-on skepticism, and the fun that can be had from exploring the pseudoscience around you.
I’d like to do as many talks as possible, so if you’d like me to talk for your Skeptics in the Pub, university group, humanist group or other, let me know and I’ll do my best to accommodate you. To book my talk, email press@merseysideskeptics.org.uk.
Lifting The Lid: Ongoing adventures in the world of pseudoscience
by Michael Marshall
It’s easy to think of pseudoscience existing in a glass case at a museum – something to be examined and critiqued from a safe distance, but not something to touch and to play with. Using examples taken from his own personal experiences in skepticism, Michael Marshall will show what happens when you begin to crack the surface of the pseudosciences that surround us – revealing the surprising, sometimes-shocking and often-comic adventures that lie beneath.
Michael Marshall is the Vice President of the Merseyside Skeptics Society, and regularly speaks with proponents of pseudoscience for the Be Reasonable podcast. His work with the society has seen him organising international homeopathy protests and co-founding the popular QED conference. He has written for the Guardian, The Times and New Scientist.
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Requirements: projector, screen, audio playback (this talk involves some short video clips with sound).
Confirmed dates:
- Teeside Skeptics in the Pub – 3rd April 2014
- Cardiff Skeptics in the Pub - 21st April 2014
- Sheffield Skeptics in the Pub – 28th April 2014
- Brighton Skeptics in the Pub – 10th June 2014
- Birmingham Skeptics in the Pub – 11th June 2014
- Horsham Skeptics in the Pub – 12th June 2014
- York Skeptics in the Pub – 23rd June 2014
- Lincoln Skeptics in the Pub – 4th August 2014
Skeptics with a K: Episode #115
Posted by Mike in Podcast, Skeptics with a K on February 13, 2014
Vegetarians, ghostly spiders, chemtrails and cannibals. Plus Eddie Murphy, killing angels, smashing wine bottles and NASA. It’s just science, from Skeptics with a K.
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:11:43 — 16.9MB)
Skeptics with a K: Episode #114
Posted by Mike in Podcast, Skeptics with a K on January 30, 2014
Stress, social policy, smoking and stage hypnosis. Plus teddy bears, Star Trek, critical thinking and sheeple. Chewing the cud, it’s Skeptics with a K.
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:05:58 — 15.5MB)
Be Reasonable: Episode #013 – Jens Foell
Posted by Mike in Be Reasonable, Podcast on January 28, 2014
Dr Jens Foell is a GP and teaching fellow at Imperial College London, as well as a medical acupuncture practitioner with his own private practice. He regularly uses medical acupuncture with NHS patients, and is part of the council for the British Medical Acupuncture Society.
Podcast: Download (Duration: 32:26 — 7.5MB)
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