Teacher Competence and the Combat Against Misinformation

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.

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“The Swedish Experiment” A Covid strategy unlike any other

Přednáškový cyklus Věda kontra iracionalita Českého klubu skeptiků Sisyfos uvádí:

“The Swedish Experiment” – A Covid strategy unlike any other

Sweden’s approach to the covid pandemic has received scathing criticism from domestic and foreign sources alike. Was it a success or a giant failure? Did the authorities play Russian roulette with the lives of its citizens? Close to three years later we look into what the science has to say and what actually happened.

 

Pontus Böckman

Pontus’ (@Bockmanp, pontus@theesp.eu) educational background is in finance, but he has always had a great interest in history, sci-fi and popular science. He discovered the skeptics movement in 2010 and soon thereafter became deeply involved in local activism, such as organizing ‘Skeptics in the Pub’ and giving lectures on skepticism in local schools. In 2013 he co-founded and became president of the local south branch of the national Swedish Skeptics Society (“Vetenskap och Folkbildning” or VoF). In 2014 he was appointed to the national board of VoF, and was elected President in 2018.

Since 2017 he is also a board member of the European Council of Skeptical Organisations. He lives in Malmö in the south of Sweden where he runs the local ‘Skeptics in the Pub’ events, occasionally hosting international speakers as well. He has also given several talks at international events and appeared on various other podcasts.

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Program

Thursday, 8 September 2022

  20:00 – 22:00 Skeptical Quiz

Friday, 9 September

  9.00 – 10.00 Registration

  10:00 – 12:00 The Skeptical Movement in Europe (Panel)

   Chair: Claire Klingenberg

  12:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break

  14:00 – 16:00 Dealing with Uncertainty

   Chair: Sergio Della Sala

  16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break

  16:30 – 18:00 Science and the Environment

   Chair: Holm Hümmler

  18:00 – 20:00 Dinner Break

  20:00 – 21:15 Evening Keynote

   Introduction by Claudia Preis

Saturday, 10 September 2022

  09:15 – 10:00 Keynote

   Introduction by Claudia Preis

  10:00 – 12:00 Skepticism in the Classroom

   Chair: Pontus Böckman

  12:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break

  14:00 – 16:00 Towards Rational European Drug Policies

   Chair: Catherine de Jong

  16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break

  16:30 – 18:30 Making science-based decisions in politics (Panel)

   Chair: András Gábor Pintér

  19:30 Congress Dinner (+ €28, advance booking)

Sunday, 11 September 2022

  10:00 – 13:00 Conspiracy Theories

   Chair: Amardeo Sarma

  Optional afternoon activities

  • 14:00: 3rd Man Tour – Visit the Filming Locations of Orson Welles´s Classic Movie
    €20, booking on-site only on Fri, Sep 9. Maximum 25 persons
  • 14:30: Guided tour through the historic medical library of Billrothhaus
    €5, advance booking (SOLD OUT)
  • 14:30: Sightseeing off the beaten track – discovering hidden treasures
    €16, booking on-site only on Fri, Sep 9. Maximum 15 persons
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Elektroakupunktura opět na scéně

Poslední měsíc vychazejí v českých médiích senzační články o nové terapii dětské obrny, kterou praktikuje MUDr. Peter Olšák ve světově proslulé Dětské léčebně Vesna v Janských Lázních. Český rozhlas tak 1. února přišel s titulkem „Český doktor léčí ochrnutí kombinací akupunktury a elektroléčby. O jeho metodu je zájem v zahraničí„. O několik dní později již doktor Olšák sedí ve studiu České televize a hovoří o „své“ metodě elektroakupunktury.

Hned na začátku je nutno podotknout, že z jakéhosi důvodu je akupunktura v České republice od roku 1981 metoda „lege artis“ a její praktici se sdružují v České lékařské akupunkturistické společnosti fungující v rámci České lékařské společnosti Jana Evangelisty Purkyně. Akupunkturu mohou provádět lékaři, kteří získali specializaci v některém z klinických oborů včetně oboru všeobecného lékařství a absolvovali zvláštní přípravu.
Metoda elektroakupunktury se u pacientů používá více než pět let a u dětí se používá necelé tři roky.

Olšák svou metodu nazval Active ENF, nebo Elektroakupunkturní nervosvalová facilitace. Při ní napíchne pacientovi akupunkturní jehly a poté pomocí přístroje přivede do akupunkturních jehel elektrický proud. To pacienti vnímají jako mravenčení a při větší intenzitě dochází také k viditelným svalovým kontrakcím.
„Proud pomáhá dráhám v těle, které jsou poškozeny, aby lépe fungovaly.“ Myslel tím snad „meridiány“?

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