Past Events

We have been running events since 2009. To date we have hosted 155 events promoting skepticism in Cambridge, UK.

30/04/2024	Prof Chris French	The Science of Weird Shit: Twenty(-Four) Years of Weird Science at Goldsmiths
26/03/2024	Dr Callum Cooper	Phone Calls from the Dead?
18/03/2024	Henrik Schoeneberg	Bad Arguments that Make You Smarter
27/02/2024	Caroline Rance	Snake Oil! The Golden Age of Quackery in Britain and America
30/01/2024	Prof Nikku Madhusudhan	The Hycean Paradigm in the Search for Life Elsewhere
28/11/2023	Robert Harling	Effective Altruism: Using Reason and Evidence for the Most Good
24/10/2023	Dr Darren Stevens	Why Personality Isn't Real
26/09/2023	Dr Jane Aspell	The Neuroscience of Out of Body Experiences
29/08/2023	Dr Annie Howitt	The Power of Asking for Evidence
25/07/2023	Dr. Jon Roozenbeek	Propaganda in the Russian-Ukrainian War
27/06/2023	Andrew Dart	Your Brain Hates You!
30/05/2023	Prof. Viren Swami	Attraction Explained: The Science of How We Form Relationships
25/04/2023	Prof. Edzard Ernst	How to Become a Pseudoscientist
28/03/2023	Dr. Jon Roozenbeek	Countering Misinformation, or: Whether to Throw Hand Grenades at Termites
28/02/2023	Prof. Sander van der Linden	A Psychological Vaccine Against Fake News
24/01/2023	Prof. Giles Yeo	Why Calories Don't Count
25/02/2020	Alex J. O'Connor (Cosmic Skeptic)	Is It Time To Go Vegan?
14/12/2019	Matt Dillahunty	Magic, Skepticism and Questions
29/10/2019	James Williams	Man's Best Friend: A Skeptical Guide to Bestiality
14/10/2019	Pub Social	Discussion Group: The Fake News Problem
23/09/2019	Ash Pryce	How To Be A Psychic Conman
18/09/2019	PechaKucha	20 Slides, 20 Seconds Each
29/07/2019	Nessa Carey	The Epigenetics Revolution
15/07/2019	Prof. Richard Wiseman	Shoot for the Moon: Achieve The Impossible
24/06/2019	Ariane Sherine	Talk Yourself Better
10/06/2019	Prof. Carl Heneghan & Kath Sansom	Deadly Devices: Approval of Medical Devices with Little Evidence
20/05/2019	Michael Marshall	Circular Reasoning: The Rise of Flat Earth Belief
15/04/2019	Rebecca Fox	How To Be Reasonable: By Someone Who Tried Everything Else
26/03/2019	Prof. David Nutt	Why It's Time To Change The Drug Laws - To Improve Treatment and Research
12/03/2019	Mark Stevenson	A Reluctant Futurist (Cambridge Science Festival 2019)
12/03/2019	Michael Marshall	Undercover Adventures in a World of Irrationality ((Cambridge Science Festival 2019)
26/02/2019	Prof. Giles Yeo	Gene Eating: The Science of Obesity and the Truth about Diets
12/02/2019	Amrit Sidhu-Brar	Effective Altruism: Using Reason and Evidence for the Most Good
29/01/2019	Robin Ince	I'm A Joke And So Are You
15/01/2019	Dr. James Erskine	It Wasn't Me: Why Humans Often Act Against Their Own Best Interests
11/12/2018	Iszi Lawrence	The Z List Dead List
27/11/2018	The Angry Chef	Bad Science and The Truth About Healthy Eating
13/11/2018	Dr. David Luke	Artificial Paradises? Anomalous Psychedelic Experiences
30/10/2018	Dr. Smith	Zombie Science: Genes of the Damned
18/10/2018	The Skeptics Guide to the Universe	Live Podcast Recording
15/10/2018	Cerys Bradley	A Unifying Theory of Gay
24/09/2018	Hayley Stevens	A Skeptics Guide to Ghost Hunting
30/07/2018	Mark Stevenson	We Do Things Differently
16/07/2018	Dr. Miguel Farias	The Buddha Pill: Can Meditation Change You?
18/06/2018	Dr. Anil Awesti	BREXIT - Where Are We and Where Are We Going?
23/04/2018	Tim Morley	1,000,000 People Are Learning Esperanto on Duolingo - But Why?
09/04/2018	Andrew Copson	Secularism: Politics, Religion and Freedom
26/03/2018	Prof. Edzard Ernst	Homeopathy, the Undiluted Facts
20/03/2018	Prof. Richard Wiseman	The Science of Sleep (Cambridge Science Festival 2018)
27/02/2018	Natalie Bennett	Universal Basic Income
30/01/2018	Dr. Martin Graff	Why Online Dating Doesn't Work
10/01/2018	Aron Ra	Why Do Believers Hate Reality So Much?
28/11/2017	Paul Duncan McGarrity	Ask An Archaeologist
16/11/2017	David Kent	Stem Cells Going Wrong In People - How Do Cancers Evolve?
31/10/2017	Prof. Richard Aspinall	I'd Like To Be Immortal But...
09/10/2017	Prof. Philip Moriarty	The Wow and Woo of Quantum Physics
25/09/2017	Kevin Precious	A Former RE Teachers Guide to Non-Belief
21/08/2017	Andrew Dart	Your Brain STILL Hates You
24/07/2017	Prof. Gina Rippon	Blame the Brain
19/07/2017	Simon Singh	From Fermat's Last Theorem to Homer's Last Theorem
06/06/2017	Rumit Somaiya	How To Beat A Casino
29/05/2017	Stuart Armstrong	... I'm Sorry Dave
24/04/2017	Paul Ewans	Secular Education in Uganda
27/03/2017	Julian Huppert	Post-Fact Politics
23/03/2017	Andrew Copson	Objections to Humanism
28/02/2017	Brain Eggo	Unpredicta-Bull
31/01/2017	Prof. Viren Swami	Attraction Explained: The Science of How We Form Relationships
29/11/2016	Emily St. Denny	Why French Prostitution Policies Have Changed
26/09/2016	Dr. Kat Arney	The Language of Genes
29/08/2016	Izsi Lawrence	The Z-List Dead List: Round 2
25/07/2016	Robin Taylor	Witchcraft and the Active Imagination
30/05/2016	Robin Tudge	North Korea - Beyond The Potemkin Illusion
25/04/2016	Andrew Dart	Your Brain Hates You
23/02/2016	Tamsin Cave	Does Lobbying Distort Our Democracy?
26/01/2016	Catherine Ball	Will There Be A Christian Church in Britain in 30-40 Years?
24/11/2015	Iszi Lawrence	The Z-List Dead List
27/10/2015	Dr. John Lambie	Question Everything: Critical Open-Mindedness in Science, Religion and Everyday Life
28/09/2015	Dr. David Robert Grimes	Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics - How We Get The Science Coverage Wrong
24/08/2015	Myles Power	AIDS Denialism... Yep, That's A Thing
27/07/2015	Michael Marshall	Homeopathy in the UK: The NHS and Beyond
29/06/2015	Ash Pryce	How To Talk To The Dead
25/05/2015	Dr. Jules Griffin	Sugar, Fat and Daily Mail Headlines
27/04/2015	Mark Lynas	Moving From Ideology to Evidence
30/03/2015	Alan Henness	The Nightingale Collaboration
24/02/2015	Dr. Richard Piech	In Praise of Rationality
27/01/2015	Prof. Jennifer A Clack	Bridging Romer's Gap
25/11/2014	Prof. Judith Mank	Why So Many Ways of Doing It
28/10/2014	Dr. Marta Mirazon Lahr	Genes, Fossils and Behaviour
29/09/2014	Amir Chaudhry	Taking Back Control Of Your Data
26/08/2014	Michael Marshall	Lifting The Lid: Ongoing Adventures In The World Of Pseudoscience
21/07/2014	Andrew Brown	There's No Such Thing As An Atheist Baby
26/05/2014	Elliot George	Godbuster
28/04/2014	Jonny Scaramanga	Inside Britain's Creationist Schools
25/03/2014	Will Moy	FullFact
25/02/2014	Alistair Coleman	What Do We Know About North Korea?
28/01/2014	Prof. Sophie Scott	The Science of Laughter
01/11/2013	Bright Club
29/10/2013	Robert Llewelyn	Electric Cars? They're Rubbish Aren't They?!
23/09/2013	Oliver Meech	When Magic and Science Collide
18/09/2013	Simon Watt	Ugly Animal Preservation Society
26/08/2013	Dr. Catherine Sebastian	The Teenage Brain
22/07/2013	John Sweeney	Oi! Scientology! Church of Fear Roadshow
25/06/2013	Kate Smurthwaite	How To Fuck
13/06/2013	Bright Club	Nick Doody and Vikki Stone: Bodies
27/05/2013	Rhys Morgan	How Dare You Question My Miracle!
29/04/2013	Dr. Andrew Holding	Forgotten Knowledge
11/04/2013	Bright Club	Kent Valentine and Jonny Berliner
01/04/2013	Sanal Edamaruku	Superstition and Rationalism? The Indian Background
26/03/2013	Anne Marie Waters	One Law For All
26/02/2013	Dr. Meng-Chuan Lai	What Can We (Humans) Learn from (Our Con-specifics With) Autism?
29/01/2013	Neil Denny	The Little Atoms Road Trip
27/11/2012	Martin Robbins	Bad Science In The Developing World
30/10/2012	Deborah Hyde	Unnatural Predators
02/10/2012	Marc Abrahams	Cambridge! This Is Improbable
24/09/2012	Christopher Andrew	Soccer and the Intelligence Services: Why Do They Matter?
19/09/2012	Bright Club	Bec Hill and Dan Woods: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral
27/08/2012	Alom Shaha	The Young Atheist's Handbook
30/07/2012	Sense About Science	Ask For Evidence
25/06/2012	Juliet Jacques	Invisible Lives
28/05/2012	Dr. Amy Milton	Erasing Memories
16/04/2012	Andrew Pontzen
26/03/2012	Alastair Mundy	Dispelling Commonly Held Myths in the StockMarket
17/03/2012	Thinkcon 2012	Richard Wiseman, Helen Keen, Michael Brooks
13/03/2012	Thomas Woolley	Diffusion of the Dead
21/02/2012	Ronald Green	Why Nothing Matters
24/01/2012	Stephen Curry	The Science of Viruses and Making Science Viral
29/11/2011	Dr. Denis Alexander	Creation or Evolution - Do We Have To Choose?
07/11/2011	Dr. Andrew Holding	SciScreen: HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy
24/10/2011	Prof. Wade Allison	Radiation and Reason
21/10/2011	Dr. Kat Arney	Skeptics Cafe: In The Pink
18/10/2011	Tracy King and DC Tuner	Tim Minchin's 'Storm'
26/09/2011	Lia Chappell	CHaOS at Skeptics in the Pub
08/09/2011	Julian Huppert
29/08/2011	Alice Bell	A Brief History of 'PUS'
25/07/2011	Trystan Swale	Ghosts And The People Who Hunt Them
27/06/2011	Nelson Jones	Heresy Corner at Skeptics in the Pub
06/06/2011	Jon Ronson	The Psychopath Test
30/05/2011	Simon Perry	Skeptical Activism & The Quacklash
24/04/2011	Edd Edmondson	Believing by Numbers
28/03/2011	Dr. Belinda Brooks-Gordon	The Myths and Stereotypes That Surround Sex Work
19/03/2011	Can You Make A Difference	Rhys Morgan, Michael Marshall, David Colquhoun, Chris Smith and Sile Lane
22/02/2011	Dean Burnett	The Unholy Trinity: Neuroscience, Comedy and Skepticism
12/02/2011	Jennifer Rohn	Skeptics Cafe
25/01/2011	Simon Blackburn	Does Science Always Know Best?
21/12/2010	Aubrey de Grey	Regenerative Medicine for Ageing: Can It Be Comprehensive Enough?
30/11/2010	David Aaronovitch	Voodoo Histories
25/10/2010	Ian Ridpath	UFO's: Fact or Fantasy?
27/09/2010	Prof. Andy Parker	ATLAS And The Large Hadron Collider
30/08/2010	Rebecca Watson	Why Chicks Matter
26/07/2010	Prof. David Spiegelhalter	How Risky Is It?
29/06/2010	Nick Pope	The Real X-Files
24/05/2010	Prof. Chris French	The Psychology of Anomalous Experiences
26/04/2010	Prof. Richard J Evans	Holocaust Denial
29/03/2010	Prof. Malcolm Gaskill	Ectoplasm
16/02/2010	David Allen Green	Bad Law
26/01/2010	Dr. Andy Lewis	The Persistence of Delusion
24/11/2009	Dr. Simon Singh	Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial