Event Notice Debate: 6th World Skeptics Congress
6th World Skeptics Congress
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Purpose: Why do people turn to pseudoscience for help? What makes alternative medicine so attractive – and how can we find out what really works? Why is it so difficult for us to deal with risk and uncertainty in a rational way? Can we teach children to think critically and scientifically? And how can academic disciplines like biology or psychology protect themselves from pseudoscientific contamination?
Date: May 18-20, 2012
Location: Hotel Crowne Plaza, Berlin, Germany
Website / Registration: World Skeptics.org
Program:
- Promoting Science in an Age of Uncertainty
- Creationism – A Challenge to Science
- Creationism in Islam
- Pseudoscience in Education
- Alternative Medicine
- (Ir)rationality and Risk Assessment
- Psychology and Pseudoscience
- (Pseudo)Science and Society
- Keynote (Moderation: Massimo Polidoro)