Coming to Halifax, Taunton, Exeter, Margate and Eastbourne over the next week or so (and Manchester for QEDcon)
I am coming to Taunton in a week - tickets here www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/tau...
Tickets are now available for Robin Ince - Bookshop Stand-Up: The Universe and The Neurodiverse at Brendon Books CIC, Taunton on Tue 22 Oct 2024 at 7:00PM. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!
I am likely unable to attend QEDcon now but I have already booked a hotel room and it’s non-refundable 🥲 Does anyone want the room for £330? - Booked into the Mercure (the venue) - twin room with 2 single beds - check in Friday 18th October - check out Monday 21st October (3 nights)
I hit my 50th birthday last week, so digging through old memories. There’ll be QEDCON brochures somewhere too.
I was at QEDcon last weekend, and Dr Alice Howarth did a presentation about the wellness industry which seems relevant to this. One of her points was that modern medicine is really shitty to women, so they'll look for alternative solutions. Sometimes that's the pebble that starts the avalanche.
I was at QEDcon (a skepticism conference) this weekend, and Ahir Shah was one of the stand up acts, and he made this exact point. Dismantling preexisting biases was a throughpoint of most of what I saw.
Right near the front waiting for Dan Friesen's talk at QEDcon. This is the reason I decided to go (everything I've been to has been fantastic) and I can't wait!
QEDcon has been fantastic so far. I love the breadth of subjects featured, and this year, it’s very spook-heavy: - A panel about Folklore and Forteana, - A panel about UFOs/UAPs, - Workshops on testing paranormal claims, - a Main Stage talk about investigating the paranormal,
Three of the talks I've been to at QEDcon have been on various forms of misogyny and how it influences zoology, the wellness industry and the rise of the manosphere. Grim stuff, but it's what's got to be tackled.