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Featured Events

Merseyside Skeptics Christmas Party
Merseyside Skeptics Christmas Party
Tempest on Tithebarn, 12 Tithebarn Street
Are we lovin’ it? How food marketing messes with our minds and diets
Are we lovin’ it? How food marketing messes with our minds and diets
The Casa, 29 Hope Street

Latest Podcasts

Episode #394

Skeptics with a K Recording remotely for the first time since 2020, the team talk about sovereign citizens pushing common law nonsense at the Great Resist conference, and a new paper which looks at the statistics in so-called mind-body studies.

Episode #054 - Live from QED 2023

InKredulous Episode 54 of our satirical, skeptical comedy podcast recorded live at QED 2023. Appearing alongside host Andy Wilson are Jordan Holmes, Cara Santa Maria, and Michael Marshall.

Episode #083 - Nyjon Eccles

Be Reasonable Marsh is joined by functional medicine doctor Nyjon Eccles to talk about the controversial thermographic cancer screening scans, and why he feels cancer patients would benefit from a functional medicine approach of nutritional support.

The Skeptic

Will we soon face AI-related risks? Maybe, but they are probably overestimated
By Georgy Kurakin,

AI poses an unprecedented challenge for scientific integrity, but AI is just a tool. Its value, good or ill, comes from people using it

The post Will we soon face AI-related risks? Maybe, but they are probably overestimated appeared first on The Skeptic.

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