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Past Events
We have been running events since 2009. To date we have hosted 155 events promoting skepticism in Cambridge, UK.
10/09/2024 | Dr Stuart Vyse | The Uses of Delusion |
28/05/2024 | Dr Matthew Bothwell | The Case for Dark Matter |
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 |
Below are a selection of friends to Cambridge Skeptics, who have spoken at our previous events:
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