This posting completes my QED pictures. Previously I’ve posted …
Sunday morning greeting (after Saturday night)
Michael Marshall – @MrMMarsh – Homeopathy in the UK
- Mike Smyth @M1ke5myth Text NOHP99 £5 to 70070 to donate £5 to @GoodThinkingSoc #homeopathy appeal. https://www.justgiving.com/Good-Thinking-Society-Appeal/3 …#QEDcon
- Hayley M. Stevens @Hayleystevens I was sold homeopathy after describing symptoms of a brain tumour as a test. #QEDcon
- pixie359 @pixie359 Marsh was recommended homeopathy to prevent malaria. But not too much, or he’d start exhibiting malaria like symptoms. #qedcon
- Quackery Watchdog @ofquack Homeopathy Alert! Owl remedies clearly a cure for excessive wisdom. #QEDcon Available without prescription…
- Glasgow Skeptics @GlasgowSkeptics The “pharmacy” that exclusively provides to Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital also sells homeopathic MRIs and homeopathic X-Rays. #QEDcon
Dame Sue Ion – What chance for meeting climate change targets without nuclear power?
- Martin L Poulter @mlpoulter Really impressed w Dame Sue Ion’s presentation style & use of data. Getting very clear overview of UK energy production. #QEDcon
Lucie Green – What has the Sun ever done for us?
Jennifer Michael Hecht – @Freudeinstein – The History of Doubt and the Poetics of Atheism
- Carley Centen @ccentenrun There’s a write up of Hecht’s book Stat here: http://www.brainpickings.org/2013/11/18/stay-suicide-hecht/ …#qedcon
- Mike Smyth @M1ke5myth Most remaining evidence of historic atheism is preserved in religious polemics after original texts destroyed by the polemicists #QEDcon
- Jutta @Tasutari Jennifer Hecht @ #QEDcon: “The meat thinks. That is so much weirder than virgin birth.”
- ElizabethD @_ElizabethD “The human experience is as important as the cosmic; it’s where we live.” Jennifer Hecht #QEDCon
- Year Without God @yearwithoutgod .@Freudeinstein says she’s a poetic atheist in calling out scientism. Me too! @ryanjbell #QEDcon
- Andrew Copson @andrewcopson As a historian & classicist, I’m loving the #QEDcon contributions of Natalie Haynes & @Freudeinstein – they are speaking my language!
- Sean Slater @TheTrueScotsman Hecht – suicide is murdering your future self. #qedcon
- Colm Ryan @colm_ryan Jennifer Hecht’s talk on the history of atheism and on suicide is a highpoint for me in this conference. Beautiful use of language. #QEDcon
A C Grayling – Varieties of Skepticism
- pixie359 @pixie359 Belief in fairies traditionally bigger than religion. God is on Sundays, fairies are always around. Nicking your shoelaces #qedcon
- Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou .@acgrayling: a major reason why Church of England was supportive of introduction of public schools was to combat superstition. #QEDcon
- Brian Colquhoun @article82 “I think, therefore I don’t need any notes or prompts.” – A.C. Grayling. #QEDcon
Closing
Oh, and the Opening Movie is now up on YouTube, here it is …