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Birmingham Skeptics

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Birmingham Skeptics in the Pub - 2nd Wednesday of every month at @TheVictoria - https://teapawt.net/t.co/yxMy2XpbYB Guest curator @notjarvis

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Joined March 2010
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Timothy Caulfield
@CaulfieldTim7 Sep 2022
Risk of rejecting conspiracy theories could play key role in their propagation phys.org/news/2022-09-conspi… via @physorg_com Key factors: - perceived risk for not believing (eg, ostracism from a peer group) - strongly held prior beliefs - emotional state #ScienceUpFirst
Risk of rejecting conspiracy theories could play key role in their propagation in Western society

Risk of rejecting conspiracy theories could play key role in their propagation in Western society

A new study suggests that when deciding whether to believe in a conspiracy theory or not, the brain weighs up information from our own direct experience, what the media tells us, the expected cost or...

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Will Sommer
@willsommer13 Aug 2022
This one of the craziest stories I’ve ever written. Conspiracy theorists and New Age medicine fans are paying up to $120K for mysterious devices they think can cure cancer — but as far as I can tell, produce only a colored static on a computer monitor. thedailybeast.com/qanon-cons…
QAnon Conspiracy Theorists Have a New Cure-All: $120,000 TVs

QAnon Conspiracy Theorists Have a New Cure-All: $120,000 TVs

For $120,000, you too can have these colored static screens that supposedly cure cancer in your living room.

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Jennifer Gunter
@DrJenGunter23 Apr 2022
Why are you using the name of my book?
Carolyn Harris (@carolynharris24) profile pictureCarolyn Harris
@carolynharris2422 Apr 2022
So many wonderful #Menopause campaigners have come together to launch menopausemanifesto.co.uk 👀 In order to tackle the disparity of menopause support and access to #HRT we need to hear your stories to convince the Government we cannot be ignored! 📸instagram.com/menopausemanif…📸
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Sure Uri. We believe you
Uri Geller (@theurigeller) profile pictureUri Geller
@theurigeller4 Jan 2022
I know where the Arc of the Covenant is I will find it mark my words. It will be an earth shattering historical tsunami and an archeological and a theological earthquake. Dowsing ancient soap factory I located under my museum gave me the inspiration! urigeller.museum
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The Skeptic@TheSkepticMag29 Oct 2021
Exploding Head Syndrome is no joke – and neither is sleep paralysis | Chris French @chriscfrench skeptic.org.uk/2021/10/explo…
Exploding Head Syndrome is no joke – and neither is sleep paralysis

Exploding Head Syndrome is no joke – and neither is sleep paralysis

Sufferers of sleep paralysis and exploding head syndrome would experience less distress if more medical professionals were familiar with these relatively common conditions.

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Cambridge Skeptics@cambskeptics7 Oct 2021
Ghost hunter Steve Mera says we should be alert next time we're out for a pint at the pub, saying 'we have a natural survival sense that kicks in', report Susan Griffin and Millie Reeves for @DailyMirror. buff.ly/3oIeeZl
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Hampshire Skeptics@HantsSkepSoc14 Sep 2021
Fake news and going viral may be modern terms, but the concepts are centuries old. Join us via twitch.tv/sitp 7pm tomorrow as writer @iankeable entertains with his exploration of mindboggling C18 hoaxes. Talk ℅ @SITP
Skeptics in the Pub Online event 16/09/2021 'The Century of Deception: The Birth of the Hoax in Eighteenth-Century England' with writer Ian Keable via https://www.twitch.tv/sitp

ALT Skeptics in the Pub Online event 16/09/2021 'The Century of Deception: The Birth of the Hoax in Eighteenth-Century England' with writer Ian Keable via https://www.twitch.tv/sitp

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Daniel Dale
@ddale811 Sep 2021
A fictional story about F-22 pilots resigning over a texted vaccination demand went from a bonkers website to a rando bodybuilder’s Instagram to a British radio host’s Twitter and more than 1 million views: cnn.com/2021/09/10/politics/…
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Final Fringe event is up on the board now. Join us and @MeirionTweets talking about investigative journalism and the work he and his colleagues have put in to break some amazing stories. meetup.com/EdinburghSkeptics…
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Marianna Spring@mariannaspring25 Jul 2021
London Mayor Sadiq Khan - and medics across the UK - are condemning comments about executing NHS workers made by former nurse Kate Shemirani at yesterday’s protest. She’s become a leader of the UK’s conspiracy community - and I interviewed her son. bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-5466923…
How my mum fell for conspiracy theories

How my mum fell for conspiracy theories

Sebastian’s mum has grown a big online following by spreading dangerous Covid conspiracy theories.

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The Skeptic@TheSkepticMag11 Jun 2021
How the ‘Lockdown Sceptics’ misquote research in their quest to appear scientific | Danny Bradley @theskepticmag skeptic.org.uk/2021/06/how-t…
How the ‘Lockdown Sceptics’ misquote research in their quest to appear scientific

How the ‘Lockdown Sceptics’ misquote research in their quest to appear scientific

Even the most robust arguments of the so-called ‘Lockdown Sceptics’ rely on quoting selectively from the studies they reference

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Cambridge Skeptics@cambskeptics8 Jun 2021
Join @SITP Online guest @losterman42 for a defence her field of evolutionary psychologist against misconceptions and misuses. #skeppub mailchi.mp/edeb11ca451a/how-…
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The Skeptic@TheSkepticMag4 Jun 2021
Despite what Prince Charles thinks, homeopathy is not the answer to antibiotic resistance | Edzard Ernst @EdzardErnst skeptic.org.uk/2021/06/despi…
Despite what Prince Charles thinks, homeopathy is not the answer to antibiotic resistance

Despite what Prince Charles thinks, homeopathy is not the answer to antibiotic resistance

Conditions that clear without antibiotics aren’t proof that homeopathy works, but that some infections can clear up on their own

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Jennifer Gunter
@DrJenGunter2 Jun 2021
How I followed the dangerous rabbit hole of online ‘momfluencers’ /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/life/par…
How I followed the dangerous rabbit hole of online ‘momfluencers’

How I followed the dangerous rabbit hole of online ‘momfluencers’

When what’s being sold by social-media content creators is disinformation, the entire community suffers

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Will Sommer
@willsommer27 May 2021
New poll on QAnon beliefs: 23 percent of Republicans polled say the government, media, and finance are "controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles." prri.org/research/qanon-cons…
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Tom Chivers@TomChivers21 May 2021
In which I learn that subliminal advertising isn’t just one more piece of silly bad psychological science, but was completely made up by a fraudulent conman unherd.com/thepost/how-socia…
Social psychology nearly ruined my favourite film

Social psychology nearly ruined my favourite film

In the best film ever, Fight Club, the antihero character Tyler Durden has various jobs which he uses as opportunities for social terrorism. He is, for instance, a waiter at a fancy hotel, and pees...

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My latest for @dailydot: MAGNETS! How antivax claims that the COVID vaccine makes magnets stick to them are founded on a generation of scammery, and are scientifically impossible. dailydot.com/debug/covid-vaa…
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Steven Pinker
@sapinker20 May 2021
UFOs Aren't Real, by @RichardHanania richardhanania.substack.com/…
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keith kloor@keithkloor18 May 2021
It's impossible to overstate the massive journalism fail we're seeing today with the elevation of supposedly mysterious UFOs as a legitimate news story. 1/ teapawt.net/60Minutes/status/13940…
60 Minutes (@60Minutes) profile picture60 Minutes
@60Minutes16 May 2021
“I'm not telling you that it doesn't sound wacky. What I'm telling you, it's real,” says Luis Elizondo, a 20-year veteran of covert military intelligence operations, about UFOs. “What is it? What are its intentions? What are its capabilities?” cbsn.ws/3fntS67

UFOs are real says veteran of covert military intelligence operations

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