20th European Skeptics Congress
Program

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Venue:
UCLy – Université Catholique de Lyon
10 place des Archives, F69002 Lyon, France
Amphitheater Alain Mérieux
(Not to be mistaken with Charles Mérieux Amphitheater at the ENS)

More about the speakers  Map, hotels and restaurants

As of 29 May 2024 the registrations to attend are now closed. The talks from the congress will be filmed and released in due time.

Thursday, 30 May 2024

  18:30 – 21:30 Social activity

Friday, 31 May

  8:30 – 9:30 Registration

  9:30 – 9:40 Opening remarks

  9:40 – 12:30 Europe’s Energy Future

   Chair: Jean-Luc Bernet

  12:30 – 14:30 Lunch Break

  14:30 – 18:00 A Good Digital Society

   Chair: Amardeo Sarma

  • Nikil Mukerji: Fake News – What is it?
  • David Goodman: Data protection and AI in the context of fake news
  • Coffee Break
  • Paolo Attivissimo: Harnessing AI for Fake News Detection and Avoidance in Journalism
  • Shukun Tokas: Navigating Trustworthiness in Virtual Worlds
  • Panel and Q&A

Saturday, 1 June 2024

  9:00 – 12:00 The Psychology of Beliefs

   Chair: Pontus Böckman

  • Chris French Pontus Böckman: Anomalous and Paranormal Beliefs: Twenty-Five Years of Research
  • Amardeo Sarma: Human population growth – Eight Billion today; where is the limit?
  • Coffee Break
  • Michael Heap: Strange Beliefs: ‘Psychopathological’ or Not?
  • Panel and Q&A

  12:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break

  14:00 – 17:00 Harm From Wellness Culture

   Chair: Catherine de Jong

  • Kevin Smith: How does the culture of self-management and spirituality harm public health?
  • Edzard Ernst: So-called alternative medicine: direct and indirect harm
  • Coffee Break
  • Les Rose: Misleading the public: can charities be trusted?
  • Panel and Q&A

  17:00 – 17:30 The History of the ESC

  • Tim Trachet: The History of European Skeptics Congresses

  20:00 Dinner (advance booking required)

Sunday, 2 June 2024

  9:00 – 12:00 Open Session

   Chair: Jean-Jacques Ingremeau

  • Francesco Grassi: From UFOs to crop circles. How humans became aliens
  • Coffee Break
  • Geerdt Magiels: Biology and ideology: at the borderlines of science and certainty. Where science meets opinion
  • Elisa Palazzi: Why do we not take the climate crisis seriously?

  Afternoon: (by special invitation only)

  • 13:30: Lunch and ECSO Council


 
 

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