| Friday, October 14 |
| 9.00-9.40 |
Marie Prins (The Netherlands) |
|
Herbal fraud in the Netherlands: Libidfit |
| 9.40-10.20 |
Li Sheng-Xian (Chinese Medicine Association - China) |
|
Will China see a third Qigong craze? |
| 10.20-10.40 |
Coffee |
| 10.40-11.20 |
James E. Alcock (York University - Canada) |
|
The appeal of alternative medicine |
| 11.20-12.00 |
Cees Renckens (Westfries Gasthuis - The Netherlands) |
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On the policy of some Dutch medical-scientific
societies towards their members, practicing alternative medicine:
reproachable negligence |
| 12.00-14.00 |
Lunch |
| 14.00-14.40 |
Frits Van Dam (Universiteit van Amsterdam - The Netherlands) |
|
Fluctuations in the use of alternative cancer
therapies through the years, the influence of mass media |
| 14.40-15.20 |
Willem Betz (VUB Univ. Brussels - Belgium) |
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The WHO and homeopathy |
| 15.20-15.40 |
Coffee |
| 15.40-16.20 |
Barry Beyerstein (Simon Fraser University - Canada) |
|
Errors of perception and reasoning that make
bogus therapies seem to work |
| 16.20-17.00 |
Michael Heap (Univ. Sheffield - UK) |
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Let's wave goodbye to the unconscious mind |
| 17.00-17.30 |
General discussion: pseudoscience and the media |
| 20.00 |
Skeptic walk |
| Saturday, October 15 |
| 9.00-9.40 |
Christopher French (Goldsmiths College - UK) |
|
The "Haunt" Project: Can we build a "haunted" room? |
| 9.40-10.20 |
Jean-Paul Van Bendegem (VUB Univ. Brussels - Belgium) |
|
2 + 2 = 4, or whatever you want |
| 10.20-10.40 |
Coffee |
| 10.40-11.20 |
Dirk Volckaerts (Journalist - Belgium) |
|
On Ethics and Credibility in Newspaper Journalism |
| 11.20-12.00 |
Luis Alfonso Gámez (Journalist - Spain) |
|
Paranormal in the Press.
A skeptical point of information for millions of readers |
| 12.00-14.00 |
Lunch |
| 14.00-14.40 |
Hans van Maanen (Journalist and author - The Netherlands) |
|
Sex and science |
| 14.40-15.20 |
Krissy Wilson (Goldsmiths College - UK) |
|
Striking a happy medium
(or why some people would like to punch self-satisfied TV psychics!) |
| 15.20-15.40 |
Coffee |
| 15.40-17.00 |
Jean Bricmont (UCL Univ. Louvain - Belgium) |
|
From the Sokal affair to the Teissier affair |
| 17.00-17.30 |
General discussion: pseudoscience and the media |
| 19.30 |
Skeptic dinner |