Welcome to Gravesend Skeptics in the Pub - the pub skeptics who meet at No.84 - the tea room, coffee shop and events venue at 84 Parrock Road, Gravesend, Kent, DA12 1QF - on the third Wednesday of every month.
Doors open at 7:00 p.m. when drinks and cakes will be available. Talks start at 7:45 p.m.
Everyone is welcome. Usually there's no need to book but check individual events as occasionally booking is necessary. Talks are generally suitable for an audience aged 16 and over.
Skeptics in the Pub events are run on a completely voluntary basis and speakers generously donate their time and ask only for expenses. Those attending are asked to make a donation to cover these expenses - the suggested amount is £3.
When?
Wednesday, August 15 2018 at 7:30PM
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Where?
No. 84 Tea Room
84 Parrock Road
Gravesend
Kent
DA12 1QF
Who?
Michael Marshall
What's the talk about?
In 2013, when Michael Marshall first interviewed the Vice President of the Flat Earth society for his show Be Reasonable, people could scarcely believe that anyone could genuinely think the Earth was flat. Five years later, Flat Earth belief has gone mainstream, spawning thousands of hours of YouTube videos, gaining widespread international media coverage, and attracting countless followers. How did we get here?
In this talk, Marshall will talk through his experiences of the Flat Earth movement, take a look at the leaders and some of their reasoning, and report back from the weekend he spent at the UK's first ever Flat Earth convention.
Michael Marshall is the Project Director of the Good Thinking Society and the Vice President of the Merseyside Skeptics Society. He regularly speaks with proponents of pseudoscience for the Be Reasonable podcast. His work has seen him organising international homeopathy protests, going undercover to expose psychics and quack medics, and co-founding the popular QED conference. He has written for the Guardian, The Times and New Statesman.
When?
Wednesday, September 19 2018 at 7:30PM
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Where?
No. 84 Tea Room
84 Parrock Road
Gravesend
Kent
DA12 1QF
Who?
Alex Farrow
What's the talk about?
Alex Farrow is a philosophy teacher and stand-up comedian who will be exploring what he learnt from teaching philosophy in a 6th form college to Muslim and Christian teenagers in East London.
The questions he found himself addressing were:
What place do philosophy and skepticism have in the school classroom?
What is the "British values agenda" and are British values under attack?
What is the role of the teacher in creating, challenging and shaping the ethical and social opinions of young people?
Alex has been invited to perform stand-up comedy about philosophy everywhere from Mervyn Stutter's pick of the Edinburgh Fringe, the National Museum of Scotland, music festivals, comedy clubs around the UK and the Oxford University Teaching Awards. He was also Farmington Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford in 2015 researching Philosophy in Schools.
He is the host of Jericho Comedy Oxford. Jericho Comedy raised £8,700 for the mental health charity Oxfordshire Mind last year for more information about them visit www.tighfive.org/jerichocomedy
“witty, positive and talented” – DailyInfo Oxford “An engaging and entertaining pairing of learning and good humour!” – **** The Latest, Brighton