Welcome to the home page of Skeptics in the Pub - Brighton: A group for those who enjoy listening & talking to, and sharing beverages with others of a skeptical nature.
Come all ye skeptics†, rationalists, scientists, naturalists‡, materialists‡, freethinkers, clearthinkers, atheists, agnostics and brights; drink ale with those similarly enlightened‡, and join us in our mission to promote and foster the use of reason and science to further lifekind, while drinking beer.
The venue for the events is The Caroline of Brunswick on Ditchling Road, opposite The Level.
Entry to the talks will cost £2 to cover speaker expenses, and is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Advance tickets are available @ £2 + 50p P&P from the venue's website and include a voucher for £2 off any main meal in the pub on the day of the event.
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Please note, our venue is up a flight of stairs, so unfortunately there is no wheelchair access. Because our venue is a pub whose licence may be at risk by the presence over youngsters, all events are strictly over 18s only.
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† and indeed sceptics
‡ in the philosophical sense
When?
Tuesday, June 12 2012 at 8:00PM
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Where?
The Caroline of Brunswick
39 Ditchling Road
Brighton
BN1 4SB
Who?
Hayley Stevens
What's the talk about?
Allow skeptical paranormal investigator Hayley Stevens to introduce you to the often confused & somewhat scary world of paranormal research. From Sham ghosts and paranormal politics to cursed houses and things that go bump in the night. Oh, and ghosts. Don’t forget the ghosts.
You’ll have the chance to get hands on with gadgets that are supposed to detect paranormal presences, and experience the latest evidence for an afterlife. Don’t get too excited now…
Hayley Stevens is one of Britain’s most vocal skeptical paranormal investigators and describes herself as ‘a ghost geek’, she has been actively investigating ghosts and monsters since 2005. Hayley is the co-host of the Righteous Indignation Podcast, blogs at ‘Hayley is a Ghost’, is the founder of ‘Project Barnum’, likes cake, and has spoken to many audiences around the world about many allegedly interesting things. Did we mention the cake?
Advance tickets are available @ £2 + 50p P&P from the venue's website and include a voucher for £2 off any main meal in the pub on the day of the event.
When?
Tuesday, July 10 2012 at 8:00PM
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Where?
The Caroline of Brunswick
39 Ditchling Road
Brighton
BN1 4SB
Who?
Dr. Graeme Archer
What's the talk about?
Graeme Archer will explain why he believes the modern demand for 'evidence-based politics' is insufficient by itself as a framework for a rational political discourse; evidence is necessary, but it is not sufficient. He will introduce the two main competing schools of thought on how to answer the central problem of inductive inference (how to evaluate evidential support for competing hypotheses) - Bayesianism and frequentism - and explain why the latter theory (dominant in the social sciences) is wholly incapable of supporting any sort of evidence-based approach to policy making.
Graeme Archer is a PhD statistician who works in the pharmaceutical industry. He spends as much time in Brighton as possible, and writes a weekly political column in Saturday's Daily Telegraph. He was also the 2011 winner of the George Orwell Prize for political blogging.
Advance tickets are available @ £2 + 50p P&P from the venue's website and include a voucher for £2 off any main meal in the pub on the day of the event.