It’s going to be crazy awesome! If you’re in the Toronto area and you want to see a really exciting speaker (and it ends at 9, so don’t give me that “yeah, but its a friday night!” bs.)… Come to this event!
SCIENCE IN AN AGE OF ENDARKENMENT:
scientific fraud, quackery, religion and university politics
When alternative medicine and academia collide… Featuring a major
public symposium with David Colquhoun
Friday, January 25th at 7:00 pm
MacLeod Auditorium, Medical Sciences Building, University of Toronto
(1 King’s College Circle, Toronto)
Should complimentary and alternative medicine be considered alongside
evidence-based medicine? What role does it play in today’s society?
Should unscientific medicine be taught in universities? David
Colquhoun tackles these issues and more.
Eminent UK scientist and noted skeptic David Colquhoun, Fellow of the
Royal Society, is a professor of Pharmacology at University College
London, fellow of the Royal Society, and blogger (Improbable Science).
He was recently the centre of controversy surrounding his popular
blog, dedicated to critiquing alternative medicine and
pseudoscientific claims, after criticizing a herbal medicine
practitioner about her questionable practices. This herbalist
threatened legal action and Prof. Colquhoun was forced to remove his
site from the UCL server. After much backlash from the scientific
community, his website was revived. A leader in the skeptical
community, Prof. Colquhoun will be speaking on issues surrounding
alternative medicine, academia, and the intersection between the two.
Dr. Colquhoun’s website: http://www.dcscience.net
Open to the public. $7 general, $4 for students (special discounts
available- ask us for details) FREE for Friends of the Centre for
Inquiry.
A reception with Prof. Colquhoun will take place immediately before
the main event from 5pm-6:30pm at the Centre for Inquiry Ontario (216
Beverley St), exclusively for friends of the centre. Contact us at
toronto@centerforinquiry.net to join CFI today.
Hosted by the University of Toronto Secular Alliance. Co-sponsored by
the Centre for Inquiry Ontario, in partnership with Skeptics Canada.
You can register as well with the facebook event
http://utoronto.facebook.com
GO TO IT!
