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Claire Klingenberg
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The first addition to the interactive workshop room has just been announced: Testing the Paranormal, with Professor Chris French.
https://qedcon.org/news/2023/testing-the-paranormal-with-chris-french
QED tickets are currently available, costing £149 (£129 concessions)
Testing the Paranormal, with Professor Chris French | QED 2023
While we are very excited about our mainstage lineup, QED is not just about the talks and presentations on offer, but also the panel discussions, podcast recordings, and workshops that happen in each of the other rooms across the QED weekend. This year, our first interactive workshop will be “Testing the Paranormal”, with **Professor Chris French**.
QED rewatch: Quackery Comms & Science Moms (2017)
In this panel from QED 2017, we explored how pseudoscientific ideas spread, and how we must adapt our approach. Featuring Britt Hermes, David Gorski, Natalie Newell, Caroline Rance, and Michael Marshall.
QED rewatch: Quackery Comms & Science Moms (2017) | QED 2023
Alternative cancer cures seem more popular than ever before. Anti-vaccine sentiment is resurgent and aspirational lifestyle gurus sell pseudoscientific messages to a worldwide audience. In this panel from QED 2017, we explored how pseudoscientific ideas past spread, and how the skeptic movement can adapt our approach. Featuring **David Gorksi**, **Britt Hermes**, **Natalie Newell**, **Caroline Rance**, and chair **Michael Marshall**.
QED rewatch: With a Quack Quack Here… Veterinary Pseudoscience (from QED 2017)
From shoeless horses to psychic telephone readings, our vets bring us up to speed on all the quack practices.
Featuring Danny Chambers, Alison Price, Terry Ogdin and Alex Young.
QED rewatch: Raising Objections - Parenting Skeptically (from QED 2022)
How can parents engender a sense of curiosity, compassion and skepticism in their children?
Featuring Ruth Abbott, Eli Bosnick @elibosnick, Britt Hermes, Thomas Smith, and Lana Donaghy.
QED rewatch: Raising Objections - Parenting Skeptically (2022) | QED 2023
Parenting can be a minefield of misleading claims – from pregnancy pseudoscience and maternity misinformation, to navigating schooling, to a near-constant barrage of regressive stereotypes and cultural clichés. At QED 2022 we hosted a panel discussion on parenting as a skeptic, which is available to rewatch now for those who missed it.
QED rewatch: Rabbit Holes and Radicalisation (2022)
How do people come to believe sinister, all-encompassing conspiracy theories, and what factors draw them deeper into their delusions?
Featuring Rachel Schraer, Ema Sullivan-Bissett, Aaron Rabinowitz, and Michael Marshall @Marsh .
QED rewatch: Rabbit Holes and Radicalisation (2022) | QED 2023
From the flat earth, to QAnon, to pandemic denialism, recent years have seen an astonishing rise of grand, all-encompassing conspiracy theories. How do so many people come to believe in such dark and sinister versions of reality, and what are the factors – social, psychological and technological – that draw them deeper and deeper into their delusions? Our panel from QED 2022 discussing this were **Rachel Schraer**, **Ema Sullivan-Bissett**, **Aaron Rabinowitz** and chair **Michael Marshall**.
QED rewatch: Human Rights. Human, right? (2022)
Our panel asks: is torture ever acceptable? And was David Cameron reasonable in feeling ‘physically ill’ at the prisoners getting the vote?
Featuring Emma McClure, Qays Sediqi, and Rick Owen.
QED rewatch: Who's Your Daddy? (2022)
How accurate are at-home DNA tests, what risks are involved with them, and how do you avoid being inadvertently arrested for a historical murder?
Featuring Adam Rutherford, Jonathan Jarry, Penny Walters, and Andy Wilson.
Ukraine War Bulletins and News🇨🇿🇺🇦Czech Republic to hand over two KUB air defense systems to Ukraine (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3707422-czech-republic-to-hand-over-two-kub-air-defense-systems-to-ukraine.html #Ukraine #CzechRepublic #NATO #Press #News #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
NASATrue to its name, a mini-Neptune is kind of like Neptune, but fun-sized. These exoplanets have thick, hazy atmospheres that can be difficult to peer through. Now Webb has lifted the curtain with the closest look yet at mini-Neptune GJ 1214 b (illustrated): https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-webb-takes-closest-look-yet-at-mysterious-planet
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