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 Project Director of the Good Thinking Society. He regularly speaks with proponents of pseudoscience for the Be Reasonable podcast. His work with the MSS 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
• York Skeptics in the Pub – 23rd June 2014
• Newcastle Skeptics in the Pub – 9th July 2014
• Lincoln Skeptics in the Pub – 4th August 2014
• Nottingham Skeptics in the Pub – 5th August 2014