Welcome
Leeds Skeptics are a friendly group of free thinkers who get together to discuss issues of science, pseudoscience and philosophy - a broad range of topics from homoeopathy and creationism to space weather and generic research. Importantly, we like to do this "in the Pub." You can find out more about us here.
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Upcoming Events
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Origins of Language and the Present Imperfect of Science
19 May 2012
Dr Dimitar Kazakov, Senior Lecturer in the AI Group at the University of York. [More]. -
Panic on a Plate: How Society Developed an Eating Disorder
16 June 2012
Rob Lyons, author of Panic on a Plate: How Society Developed an Eating Disorder discusses the unjustified anxiety present in society around the topic of food. -
Why aren't there more women on the board?
21 July 2012
Talk by Steve Moxon. Leeds psychologist Dr Gijsbert Stoet finds no evidence that women under-perform through internalising false stereotypes, a recent major review reveals no sex-discrimination in academia, and ground-breaking field research shows that it is actually in favour of women in recruitment; so why is it women tend not to 'get to the top'? [More].


