Přednáškový cyklus Věda kontra iracionalita Českého klubu skeptiků Sisyfos uvádí:

Teacher Competence and the Combat Against Misinformation

There is an urgent need for improved teacher training worldwide in order to better equip educators and their students with the essential critical thinking skills. This is critical to survive in an interconnected world where viral disinformation and misinformation spreads at an ever-increasing pace. By focusing on teacher competence development, we may facilitate a situation where students are immunized against gullibility, logical fallacies and cognitive biases, and armed with not only significant and necessary fact-checking skills, but also bestowed with a skeptic, yet not cynic, frame of mind. With an evidence-based mindset our students will hopefully be ready to better deal with the very real and urgent dilemmas humanity is currently facing.

Philippe Longchamps

Philippe Longchamps is a Canadian educator from Québec who moved to Sweden in 2002. He was named Teacher of the Year in Sweden 2020 and Finalist for the Global Teacher Prize 2021. He is the co-author of two publications, Creativity Thinktank (Sommer & Sommer, 2021) and Transformative Education (Routledge, 2022). He works tirelessly to improve education by spreading his methods of sustainable, integrative and active teaching and learning, as well as to stress the importance of empowering teachers and the youth of the world with adequate critical thinking skills.

What’s the harm in people believing in psychics and mediums? It’s all fun and games, isn’t it?
Well, until you lose your life savings to a con-artist, and your life is destroyed. In this talk, Rob Palmer will reveal the consequences – up to personal financial ruin – that frequently befall the vulnerable victims of these predators. The presentation will provide real-world examples of this type of crime, show why these beliefs are so prevalent in the 21st century, explain why it is easy for most anyone to become a victim, and discuss the battle being waged by skeptical activists to fight this largely unrecognized scourge.

When 2020 brought with it a new strain of coronavirus, the world was plunged into confusion and uncertainty. While most people accepted the realities of the virus, little white stickers began to appear in public around the world claiming COVID-19 was a hoax concocted by the governments of the world to instil fear into their people, as a pretext for introducing new, permanent totalitarian laws. The graffiti was part of a co-ordinated grassroots campaign by a group calling itself The White Rose, urging members of the public to join their encrypted messaging channels to learn more about what was really going on.

So that’s what Michael Marshall, full-time skeptical investigator and activist, did. After spending months undercover in the messaging app Telegram, he has reported on the various conspiracy theories spread by the White Rose, and how groups used the Covid crisis to radicalise vaccine hesitant members of the public into a dangerous ecosystem of misinformation and extremism.

Michael Marshall is the Project Director of the Good Thinking Society, Editor of The Skeptic, and President of the Merseyside Skeptics Society. He regularly speaks with proponents of pseudoscience for the Be Reasonable podcast, and presents investigative reporting on the Skeptics with a K 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 lectured at universities across the world on the role of the media, and has written for the Guardian, The Times, New Scientist and the New Statesman.

Claus Larsen and Steen Svanholm, internationally renowned experts on 9/11 facts and myths, describe how the terror attack was planned and carried out by the terror organization al Qaeda, and what the catastrophe meant for the time following. Claus lived in New York City at the time, and shares his personal experience.

Claus and Steen will also talk about the most common conspiracy theories that are still propagated about the terror attack on September 11th 2001.

This will be an online event with opportunity for participants to send in written questions during the presentation, which will be answered in the Q&A afterwards. Instructions for how to do this will be given when the events starts.

NECSS – The Northeast Conference on Science & Skepticism produced by New York City Skeptics, the New England Skeptical Society, The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe, and The Society for Science-Based Medicine is a science and critical thinking conference held annually in New York City. NECSS welcomes leading scientists, educators, activists, and artists who educate and engage conference attendees through individual presentations, panel discussions, workshops, and performance pieces. NECSS is as much a meeting of minds as it is a conference, and social events and mixers are organized throughout the weekend to allow attendees the opportunity to mix and mingle in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere.

STACEY FINLEY, PHD
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California

GEORGE M. CHURCH, PHD
Professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School

IMARI WALKER
Environmental Engineering PhD Candidate at Duke University

DR. LEENA TRIPATHI
Plant Biotechnologist

SARAH NOBLE, PHD
Program Scientist in the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters

DR. ROBERT M. LEVY, MD, PHD
President of the International Neuromodulation Society (INS)

DR. JACOB BLEACHER
Chief Exploration Scientist in NASA’s Advanced Exploration Systems (AES) Division

PAUL A. OFFIT, MD
Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

KEVIN M. FOLTA
Professor Horticultural Sciences Department & Graduate Program in Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology

PETER ETCHELLS
Psychologist and Science Communicator

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