walthrup48
16th October 2003, 03:51 PM
Thursday 20th November 2003
7.30pm at The Old Kings Head, London Bridge, London
Skeptics in the Pub (http://www.skeptic.org.uk/pub/)
"Montague Keen is a journalist, ex lobby correspondent, head of the Parliamentary and Legal Division of the National Farmers Union, an editor and farmer. He chairs the Image Committee of the Society for Psychical Research and is secretary of its Survival Research Committee. Principal author of the SPR's 300-page report on the Scole Group of physical mediums, he has written, lectured and researched extensively in the paranormal, specialising in evidence relating to the survival of human consciousness after death.
What makes skeptics shy away from paranormal evidence?
Montague Keen will briefly examine the chief areas of evidence for the paranormal, and comment on the criteria employed to assess evidential value, both for spontaneous cases like poltergeists, ghostly visitations, near-death and out-of-body experiences and mediumship, as well as for parapsychological experimental work which lends itself to orthodox scientific protocols. He will examine the legitimate and illegitimate sceptical objections, and list some of the ways in which many sceptics seek to escape frank confrontation with unexplained and discomforting evidence. Examples from recent or current controversies will be given and discussed."
7.30pm at The Old Kings Head, London Bridge, London
Skeptics in the Pub (http://www.skeptic.org.uk/pub/)
"Montague Keen is a journalist, ex lobby correspondent, head of the Parliamentary and Legal Division of the National Farmers Union, an editor and farmer. He chairs the Image Committee of the Society for Psychical Research and is secretary of its Survival Research Committee. Principal author of the SPR's 300-page report on the Scole Group of physical mediums, he has written, lectured and researched extensively in the paranormal, specialising in evidence relating to the survival of human consciousness after death.
What makes skeptics shy away from paranormal evidence?
Montague Keen will briefly examine the chief areas of evidence for the paranormal, and comment on the criteria employed to assess evidential value, both for spontaneous cases like poltergeists, ghostly visitations, near-death and out-of-body experiences and mediumship, as well as for parapsychological experimental work which lends itself to orthodox scientific protocols. He will examine the legitimate and illegitimate sceptical objections, and list some of the ways in which many sceptics seek to escape frank confrontation with unexplained and discomforting evidence. Examples from recent or current controversies will be given and discussed."