Stephen Law

  Centre for Inquiry UK and Conway Hall present: Science and Pseudo-Science: Chris French, Andy Lewis (Quackometer), James Ladyman and Stephen Law Sat 30th November 2013 What distinguishes real science from pseudo-science, flim-flam and bullshit? Is parapsychology a science? Is Young Earth Creationism science? Is pseudo-science on the rise in British schools? Tickets here or on door.  

To buy tickets go to the website here: http://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/ Wed 20th March 2013, 10am Alternative Medicine: Facts And Fallacies Edzard Ernst Professor Edzard Ernst explores to what extent our love affair with alternative medicine is based on good evidence and to what degree it is due to fallacious thinking and misunderstandings.  Ernst has conducted two decades of research into alternative medicines and published a number of books on the subject, including T rick or Treatment: Alternative Medicine on Trial .   His life-long interest in this area started while working in a homeopathic hospital. As a clinician, he admits to have been impressed with several alternative treatments he employed. After becoming a scientist, his attitude gradually became more self-critical. When he was appointed in 1993 as chair of complementary medicine, he decided to critically evaluate alternative medicine with the tools of science. The results of his research and ...

--> CFI UK and Conway Hall present JOURNALISM, CHURNALISM AND MEDIA BIAS Ben Goldacre, Rich Peppiatt, Michael Marshall, Greg Philo How much journalism is churnalism - the uncritical regurgitation of press releases? To what extent can we trust what we read in the press about medical and other scientific discoveries and breakthroughs? How impartial is mainstream media coverage of key political and economic issues? And just how much of tabloid news is just, well, made up ? Saturday, 15 th December 2012 Conway Hall 25 Red Lion Square London WC1R 4RL 11am-5.15pm (10.30am registration) £10 (£5 students concessions). Free entry for Friends of CFI UK. Bookshop and signings. Tickets on the door and from the BHA website here: http://www.humanism.org.uk/meet-up/events/view/196 Introduced by Stephen Law Speakers include: Ben Goldacre (Guardian columnist, doctor and author of Bad Science ) Michael Marshall (expert on press-release-based ...