14th European Skeptics Congress programme
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- Published: Wednesday, 11 August 2010 11:20
- Written by Hraskó Gábor
Program
The program is subject of change based on lecturers' availability. For more information about the lecturers visit the Lecturers page! You can download the program in black and white and in color version in PDF format as well.
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| Friday | Saturday | Sunday | |
| 09:00 | Amardeo Sarma Should we change the rules of science for Parapsychology and CAM? |
Tim Trachet Miracles and canonisations |
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| 09:15 | |||
| 09:30 | Joe Nickell Undercover! Clandestine Paranormal Investigations |
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| 09:45 | SimonSingh Trickor Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial |
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| 10:00 | REGISTRATION | ||
| 10:15 | Questions and answers | ||
| 10:30 | Discussion „CAM Workshop” |
Christopher C. French Anomalistic psychology |
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| 10:45 | |||
| 11:00 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 11:15 | István Vágó Pseudoscience in the Media |
Questions and answers | |
| 11:30 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 11:45 | Iván Almár The panic reaction of the press to news on celestial or extraterrestrial phenomena |
Gergely Röst Why useless treatments are so widespread? Insights from a simple mathematical model |
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| 12:00 | |||
| 12:15 | Atila Nyerges Mysticism in Nowadays Romania |
Maciej D. Zatonski Medicine – art, science or craft? |
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| 12:30 | |||
| 12:45 | Questions and answers | Questions and answers | |
| 13:00 | Congress Opening | LUNCH | J. Beth Ciesielski Education in Romania |
| 13:15 | Gábor Szabó Phototherapy with the eye of the Physicist; who holds the burden of proof? |
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| 13:30 | Beatrice Mautino, Stefano Bagnasco Solving mysteries by learning science (and vice versa) |
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| 13:45 | |||
| 14:00 | Willem Betz European Union and Alternative Medicine |
George Kampis Evolution, creationism |
Questions and answers |
| 14:15 | Congress Closing | ||
| 14:30 | |||
| 14:45 | Michael Heap The Politics of the Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the UK |
Gerald de Jong A Multi-Player Online Game to Raise Evolutionary Awareness |
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| 15:00 | |||
| 15:15 | |||
| 15:30 | Questions and answers | Discussion „Evolution workshop” |
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| 15:45 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 16:00 | Andy Wilson How to take an "overdose" The story of the 10:23 campaign |
COFFEE BREAK | |
| 16:15 | Tomasz Witkowski Fashionable nonsense still in fashion. Psychological Sokal-style hoax |
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| 16:30 | |||
| 16:45 | Massimo Polidoro Houdini: A Magician among the spirits |
Klára Sándor Languages, families, and genes: the power of a metaphor |
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| 17:00 | |||
| 17:15 | Klaus Schmeh The Voynich Manuscript |
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| 17:30 | Luigi Garlaschelli The making of the Shroud |
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| 17:45 | Questions and answers | ||
| 18:00 | |||
| 18:15 | Questions and answers | ||