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SUMMARY:Circular Reasoning: The Rise of Flat Earth Belief with Michael Mar
 shall - Michael Marshall
DTSTART:20210217T183000Z
DTEND:20210217T193000Z
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CONTACT:Luis Fernandes
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 Pseudoscience is delighted to welcome Michael Marshall\, to discuss the cu
 rious rise of perhaps the strangest modern pseudoscientific belief: the fl
 at Earth. \n\nMichael Marshall is a prominent advocate for rational though
 t\, freelance journalist\, and editor of The Skeptic magazine\, as well as
  co-founder and vice-president of the Merseyside Skeptics Society. \n\nHe 
 coordinated the ’10:23 Campaign’\, staging a mass homeopathic overdose
  to raise awareness of homoeopathy and its inefficacy. He followed this up
  as project director at the Good Thinking Society\, leading a campaign to 
 stop the NHS spending public money on unproven remedies from “homeopathi
 c owl” to sugar pills.\n\nMore recently\, Michael Marshall has been inve
 stigating the resurgence in flat Earth belief. While it may seem to be a t
 rivial and ridiculous idea\, Mr Marshall himself notes the intersection of
  many different\, and often more pernicious\, pseudoscientific movements w
 ith the new flat Earth societies.\n \nIn this talk\, Marshall will focus o
 n his experiences with the Flat Earth movement\, from attending the UK’s
  first Flat Earth conference\, to examining the ideological leaders and or
 ganisers who have brought this idea from the strangest fringes to a point 
 where celebrities feel comfortable espousing its tenets to thousands of fa
 ns. 
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