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Promoting science, positive skepticism and critical thinking skills via public engagement. We also host monthly Skeptics in the Pub and social events.
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Cambridge Skeptics Recommend: "Does Coffee Cause Cancer?" by Dr Christopher Labos

The decidedly delusional Socratic dialogues of Dr Christopher Labos demonstrate how his mastery of research methods and statistics entertains friends, impresses strangers, and even charms a cute barista.
October 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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"No one is immune from the objectivity illusion, and, for scientists, it is especially harmful." - Prof. Magda Osman

Learn all about psychological harm with Prof Osman on Tuesday evening at the Blue Moon.

Box office: www.tickettailor.com/events/cambr...
September 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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August 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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There are natural explanations for these personal experiences, but many people prefer the supernatural ones. They have the expectation of seeing ghosts, and are given the suggestion that they will see ghosts. Therefore, many of them do, wrote Karen Stollznow in Haunting America: The Truth Behind Some of America's "Most Haunted" Places (2013).
August 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Paranormal experiences are all in the interpretation. Weird things happen to us all, it’s just a matter of how we frame our experiences, wrote Matthew Baxter in Would You Believe It? (2017)
August 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Paranormal experiences are all in the interpretation. Weird things happen to us all, it’s just a matter of how we frame our experiences, wrote Karen Stollznow in Would You Believe It? (2017)
August 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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No one can fool us like our own minds, especially when we want to believe, wrote Karen Stollznow in Would You Believe It? (2017)
August 1, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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There are many possible natural explanations for supernatural claims. As long as there are plausible possibilities that have not been disproved, we cannot jump to paranormal conclusions, wrote Karen Stollznow in Haunting America: The Truth Behind Some of America's "Most Haunted" Places (2013).
July 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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The double life of @karenstollznow.bsky.social… Join linguist Dr Karen Stollznow at CUP Bookshop on Thursday for an exploration of the word “bitch”... Then, join paranormal investigators Karen Stollznow and @matthewbaxtermt.bsky.social at The Alex for insights into incompetent ghost hunting.
July 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Join us for two Cambridge Skeptic in the Pub events this week!

Risk researcher Prof Magda Osman joins us at The Blue Moon on Tuesday and veteran skeptical investigators Dr Karen Stollznow and Mathew Baxter join us at The Alex on Friday.

Get you tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/Cambr...
July 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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When we ask questions we have the ability to challenge as well understand. This is necessary. If we can’t ask, we can’t learn and if we can’t learn, we can’t improve. That goes for individuals as much as society as a whole, wrote Magda Osman for The Conversation in May 2023. Join Prof Magda Osman at the Alex on July 29 for a pint and some answers to the questions on the psychological harms of disruptive technologies. Box office link: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/cambridgeskeptics/1694993
July 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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There is a message for all of us: No one is immune from the objectivity illusion, and, for scientists, it is especially harmful, wrote Magda Osman for Psychology Today in July 2022.
July 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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"The halfway point between the truth and a lie is still a lie." - Lee McIntyre.
July 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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"The first step toward winning the war on truth is to accept that we are in one." -Lee McIntyre
July 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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"The real enemy of truth is not ignorance, doubt, or even disbelief. It is false knowledge.‎"‎‎ - Lee McIntyre
July 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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"There simply is no scientifically credible evidence that we have alien visitors. If there were, there would no longer be a mystery; there would no longer be a controversy." - Philip J. Klass "The existence of extraordinary reports does not suggest the existence of extraordinary objects." - Robert Sheaffer
July 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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"If you’ve never seen a UFO, you’re not very observant. And if you’ve seen as many as I have, you won’t believe in them." - Arthur C. Clarke "To me it's so odd that our culture has decided unidentified thing in the sky means alien spaceship, the least likely of all possibilities." - Brian Dunning
July 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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"I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence." - Richard Feynman "The great failure of the pro-UFO movement has been its unwillingness to accept the fact that human perception and memory are not only unreliable under a variety of conditions, but that perception and memory are also constructive." - Terence Hines
July 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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"Everything that we actually resolve turns out to be something fairly mundane and the rest seems to be just simply lacking information." - Mick West Low Information Zone (LIZ): Conditions under which UFOs appear such that any eyewitness reports or imagery lack sufficient information for identification to be made.
July 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Cambridge Skeptics Celebrate World UFO Day (July 2nd) Image shows blurry UFO "I want to believe, but first I need proof."
July 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Cambridge Skeptics Recommend "On Disinformation" The war for truth and democracy is upon us; let Lee McIntyre's little red book be your indispensable guide for fighting this new cultural revolution.
July 1, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Cambridge Skeptics recommend "A Climate of Fear": In this myth-busting, evidence-based analysis, Dr. Clive Boddy reveals society’s most dangerous are not behind bars but in boardrooms, and your boss may well be a psychopath.
June 22, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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"Among the long-term consequences for organisations which have managers and leaders embodying high degrees of psychopathy would be moral bankruptcy, and I think any morally bankrupt organisation is inevitably bound to become financially bankrupt." - Clive Boddy.
June 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Join Dr. Clive Boddy at The Blue Moon for a pint and the unnerving revelation that some of society’s most dangerous individuals aren’t lurking in dark alleys but sitting comfortably in corner offices... www.tickettailor.com/events/cambr...
June 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Norman's Law - Andy Norman: "It's difficult to reason well when you need to reason poorly to feel like a decent human being."
May 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM