QED: Question. Explore. Discover.

17/10/2024

Covid safety at QED

With QED just days away, we wanted to let you know what precautions we are taking to minimise risk from covid infections over the weekend.

16/10/2024

The event is right around the corner! Are you all ready to make new friends?

One of the best things about attending QED is the social side – from chatting and hanging out in the bar and social spaces, to sharing thoughts digitally with other attendees during talks and panels. With that in mind, we have a few ways to help make socialising a little easier!

14/10/2024

We're closing in person ticket sales in a little over two hours. On top of the 12 mainstage speakers, the £189 ticket price will also get you access to see 8 panels (see the images attached!).

Plus 5 live podcast recordings with Loremen, InKredulous, Skeptics with a K, European Skeptics Podcast and The Body of Evidence. And 4 workshops with Chris French, Jamie Gallagher, Richard Wiseman and Meirion Jones.

Plus a Saturday evening of live entertainment with David Alnwick, Abi Clarke and Alasdair Beckett-King.

Grab your ticket now at www.QEDcon.org

14/10/2024

It's time to make difficult choices. What will you have to miss to see that speaker you're desperate to see? Which panel clashes with your favourite podcast? Who is most likely to tell you how to be in 2 places at once?

The QED 2024 schedule is now live:

The moment you’ve been waiting for is almost here and the full schedule for the weekend is available now.

12/10/2024

Meet our TWELVE mainstage speakers for QED 2024. Don't forget - in person ticket sales end this coming Monday at 9pm BST. Grab your tickets at www.qedcon.org

11/10/2024

We are pleased to announce our FINAL unannounced session for QED 2024: From the pit to the palace – social class in Britain.

Join Andy Wilson as he talks to Dan Evans, Lizzi Collinge MP and Tracy Shildrick about the role of class in modern society.

It is often said that class is the great divide in British society, but what does social class mean in 2024? Is it a set of escalators where we can easily move up and down? Or more like an open prison, where only occasionally do a few manage to escape? If you are born working class do you remain tha...

09/10/2024

The European Skeptics Podcast - live at QED 2024

The award-winning European Skeptics Podcast is about to enter its tenth year of covering skeptical news and promoting skeptical activism. Their back catalogue of around 450 episodes contains analyses of skeptical trends and concerns, as well as hundreds of interviews with people from all over the world.

https://qedcon.org/updates/2024/european-skeptics-podcast-live-at-qed-2024

08/10/2024

🕑In Person Ticket Sales Closing! 🕑

Ticket sales close Monday 14th October at 9pm BST so hurry if you want to get your ticket for QED 2024.

If you can't make it in person grab a streaming ticket for £45 for access to 11 main stage talks & 8 panels!

If you can make it in person what are you waiting for? Head to http://qedcon.org now to grab your ticket for £189.

You'll get access to 12 main stage talks, 8 panels, 5 live podcast recordings, 4 workshops plus Saturday night entertainment with two comedians & a magician!

QED is the UKʼs largest skepticism and pop-science conference, taking place in the Mercure Piccadilly Hotel in Manchester on 19th-20th October 2024.

08/10/2024

QED rewatch: UFOs, UAPs, and the Quest for Understanding (2023)

In an age of omnipresent camera technology coupled with advanced image and video manipulation tools, ufology has witnessed a renaissance. Last year even saw public hearings in Washington DC, airing the evidence (or lack thereof) for what are now often known as UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena)...

07/10/2024

📢Announcing...Beyond the virus: Living positively with HIV📢

With Shema Tariq, Matthew Hodson, LeaSuwanna Griffith and Yvonne Richards-Cooper hosted by Alice Howarth.

What's it like to live with HIV in the 21st Century? Find out at QED 2024.

Since HIV hit the public consciousness in the 1980s there have been a wide range of influences on the lives and experiences of people living with HIV. Stigma and bias has affected access to treatment and prophylaxis as well as creating harmful stereotypes about the type of person who is HIV positive...

02/10/2024

📢Announcing...📢 Do Robots Dream of Ethical Sheep?

AI use has surged over recent years as has related concerns.

The question is, what truly warrants concern, and how apprehensive should we be?

With Junaid Mubeen, Emily Collins, James Ball and Rick Owen.

https://qedcon.org/updates/2024/announce-do-robots-dream-of-ethical-sheep

01/10/2024

It's almost three weeks until QED. We have a lot to share this week but let's start with two amazing talks from last year.

At QED 2023 we had a fascinating talk from Colin Angus
who told us Almost Everything you (N)ever Wanted to Know about Alcohol:

https://qedcon.org/updates/2024/rewatch-almost-everything-you-never-wanted-to-know-about-alcohol

We also had a brilliant talk from Joyce Harper
on What Everyone Needs to know about Reproductive Health:

https://qedcon.org/updates/2024/rewatch-what-everyone-needs-to-know-about-reproductive-health

Check back tomorrow when we'll be announcing something new for 2024's event!

27/09/2024

📢📢Announcing...📢📢Labour Pains panel

Against a backdrop of recent heartbreaking scandals in labour care, what does it mean to give birth in 2024?

With Agnes Arnold-Forster, Catherine Roy, Annabel Sowemimo. Hosted by Nicola Throp.

https://qedcon.org/updates/2024/announce-labour-pains

26/09/2024

Calling all volunteers!

If you are already coming to QED in October and think you can spare some of your time to help out we would love to hear from you! Please email [email protected] before Monday September 30th and we will be in touch.

https://qedcon.org/updates/2024/calling-all-volunteers

25/09/2024

📢📢Announcing...📢📢The Body of Evidence podcast - live at QED 2024.

The Body of Evidence is hosted by Jonathan Jarry and Dr. Christopher Labos.

In a special live episode at QED 2024, Jonathan will speak with Lewis Thorogood about radicalisation.

https://qedcon.org/updates/2024/announce-body-of-evidence

13/09/2024

📢Announcing 📢 Professionally curious: The art of investigative journalism.

Our panel to talk through the professionally curious world of investigative journalism will be Meirion Jones, Rina Raphael, Layla Wright and Michael Marshall.

https://qedcon.org/updates/2024/professionally-curious-the-art-of-investigative-journalism

11/09/2024

Excited to share that I will step into the role of Deputy Lorewoman at the live recording of the Loreman podcast at QEDcon! Happening in October, tickets for QED: Question. Explore. Discover. are available here: https://qedcon.org/

11/09/2024

📢Saturday night at QED 2024 📢 – with Alasdair Beckett-King, David Alnwick, Abi Clarke & the Ockham Awards.

Hosted by Robin Ince: an exciting evening of comedy & magic with Alasdair Beckett-King, Abi Clarke & David Alnwick plus The Skeptic's Ockham Awards!

https://qedcon.org/updates/2024/saturday-night-2024