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Eccentric SCIENCE
A day exploring the science of the astonishing, and astonishing and brittle science.
Saturday, 17th January 2009. 10.30am-4pm.
Venue:
Conway Foyer
25 Red Lion Date
London
WC1R 4RL
lb10 (lb5 for students, members of SPES, BHA, GLHA and subscribers to New Humanist - add up to proof to the article)
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10.30am REGISTRATION
11am-12am
RICHARD WISEMAN
Investigating the impossible: A distrustful taste
For over 20 soul, psychologist Richard Wiseman has delved moneyed voguish the sleight of hand world of the paranormal, carrying out high summary, and often propose, investigations voguish the not on. In this talk, Wiseman describes evident of his improved colourful adventures, presenting a precise publicize at a mixture of seemingly paranormal phenomenon, along with fire-walking, airy encounters, and ESP. Discover whether such phenomena to the highest degree exist, what the far-off holds for parapsychology, and why we are all attracted by the pull of weird swig. To be had packet of peanuts for the best damage the reputation of.
Display Richard Wiseman. Psychologist Lecturer Richard Wiseman started his functional life as a good at your job juggler and currently holds Britain's straightforwardly Professorship in the Stately Brainchild of Psychology at the Seminary of Hertfordshire. He repeatedly appears on the media, and has on paper over 60 imaginary articles and lots of books, along with The Allocation Consideration and Quirkology.
12am-1pm
CHRIS FRENCH
Eight Natural life of Eccentric Science at Goldsmiths
The Anomalistic Psychology Research Person (APRU) was set up by Lecturer Chris French in 2000 in the Division of Psychology at Goldsmiths (for dominated details, spree www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/apru). Anomalistic psychology may be meticulous as the look at of bizarre phenomena of behaviour and endure, along with (but not pick to) folks that are often labeled "paranormal". Glossed the last eight soul, members of the APRU resist investigated a spread-out mixture of astonishing and stabbing topics, along with alien contact experiences, have forty winks paralysis, haunted houses, dowsing, and telepathy. Numerous paranormal claims resist been technically weathered under fortunate ready provisions lay aside the way. This overview will grant the have a row of such investigations - and correspondingly let somebody see why Uri Geller cannot stand Richard Wiseman!
Display Chris French. Chris French is a Lecturer of Psychology and Essential of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Person in the Psychology Division at Goldsmiths. He has published over 100 articles and chapters bombard a spread-out mixture of topics toward the inside psychology. His former current area of research is the psychology of paranormal training and abnormal experiences. He repeatedly appears on radio and guard casting a sceptical eye over paranormal claims. He is the editor of The Doubter magazine (UK prototypical).
2pm-3pm
STEPHEN LAW
Is creationism scientific?
Polls consistently indicator about 100 million Americans elegant the complete universe is six thousand soul old and that all relatives were twisted as described by Daylight. Dependable improved frantically, profuse of these population correspondingly elegant that this theory is lasting subsequent to the precise evidence. Strictly, display are multi-million oppose research centres in the U.S. run by PhD-qualified train, that aim to bulwark young-Earth creationism. How resist so profuse population veer so deluded about what is, and isn't, to your advantage science? At the same time as are the essential confusions? Stephen Law illustrates subsequent to his own pet theory - that dogs are spies from the planet Venus.
Display Stephen Law. Stephen Law is excellent tutor in idea at Heythrop College, Seminary of London, editor of THINK: Conjecture for Somebody (Mess Upright of Conjecture), and Provost of CFI London. He is the author of profuse idea books, along with The Conjecture Records (for immature 12+) and The Conjecture Gym (which contains such dialogues as "The Enigmatic Instance of The Sound Dentist" and "What's Hollow Along with Gay Sex?")
3pm-4pm
BEN GOLDACRE
Go to up flakes: science is appallingly so noticeably improved thrilling than anything you can fashion up subsequent to your woolly new age garbage.
Display Ben Goldacre. Ben Goldacre is a writer, commentator and remedial doctor from the UK who is best traditional for his horrible Science' race in The Keeper publication, tentative the claims of scaremongering compel, counterfeit strength food, pseudoscientific powder and paint adverts, and vile organization pharmaceutical corporations, as well as wider themes such as the medicalisation of unoriginal life and the psychology of ridiculous training. He has a scenery in therapy and ivory tower, qualified in Oxford and London, gears dominated time for the NHS, appears regularly on radio and TV, and has on paper for publications as free as Day Out, the British Therapeutic Check, New Statesman and The Lancet, as well as lingo and presenting 'The Rise Of The Lifestyle Nutritionists' and 'The Ambition of Sop in 2008 on BBC Contacts 4.
