Event Listing
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. Jonathan Jarry 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.
POSTPONED: One, Two, Many: Why is 3 So Much Bigger Than 2?
There are lots of places in maths where changing a 2 to a 3 takes a problem from easy or at least understandable to very difficult or even impossible. This talk will a few examples of this phenomenon, then speculate wildly about what is going on.
This event has been postponed due to coronavirus concerns.
Sian Williams: The Age of Antibiotic Resistance
Join journalist and science historian Kit Chapman on an adventure across chemistry as he shares the bizarre stories behind the names of the building blocks of science.
This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.
Kit Chapman: How to Name Your Element
Join journalist and science historian Kit Chapman on an adventure across chemistry as he shares the bizarre stories behind the names of the building blocks of science.
This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.
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.
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.
April Online Social
Gather on our Discord for our usual chat! Will there be beer? It's very much up to you!
March Social
Everyone is welcome for friendly conversation with pie and ale.
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.
February Social
Everyone is welcome for friendly conversation with pie and ale.