BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.1.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2857@xyzbrighton.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190328T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190328T223000 DTSTAMP:20191122T030136Z URL:https://xyzbrighton.com/events/skeptics-in-the-pub-the-rise-of-flat-ea rth-belief/ SUMMARY:SKEPTICS IN THE PUB! THE RISE OF FLAT EARTH BELIEF DESCRIPTION:Skeptics in the Pub is aimed at providing a community for like- minded people to meet\, drink and hear some great talks from speakers from all around the country.\nMichael Marshall – Circular Reasoning: The Ris e of Flat Earth Belief\n \;\nIn 2013\, when Michael Marshall first int erviewed the Vice President of the Flat Earth society for his show Be Reas onable\, people could scarcely believe that anyone could genuinely think t he Earth was flat. Five years later\, Flat Earth belief has gone mainstrea m\, spawning thousands of hours of YouTube videos\, gaining widespread int ernational media coverage\, and attracting countless followers.\n \;\n How did we get here? In this talk\, Marshall will talk through his experie nces of the Flat Earth movement\, take a look at the leaders and some of t heir reasoning\, and report back from the weekend he spent at the UK’s f irst ever Flat Earth convention.\n \;\nMichael Marshall is the Project Director of the Good Thinking Society and the Vice President of the Merse yside Skeptics Society. He regularly speaks with proponents of pseudoscien ce for the Be Reasonable podcast. His work has seen him organising interna tional homeopathy protests\, going undercover to expose psychics and quack medics\, and co-founding the popular QED conference. He has written for t he Guardian\, The Times and New Statesman.\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://xyzbrighton.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/ 03/SKEPTICS-IN-THE-PUB-THE-RISE-OF-FLAT-EARTH-BELIEF_Brighton.jpg CATEGORIES:Talks LOCATION:\, \, X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=\, ;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TI TLE=:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20181028T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR