18. 05. - 20. 05.

6th World Skeptics Congress

First announcement of the 6th World Skeptics Congress to be held 2012 in Berlin, Germany.

The Congress series deals with claims ranging from the paranormal and supernatural to fringe science issues and conspiration theories. Major topics at this event will be science and pseudoscience in education, addressing in particular anti-evolution claims and origin myths, as well as the psychology of risk and benefit perception, addressing alternative medicine as a major sub-topic.

As a major highlight, we are proud to announce James "The Amazing" Randi as one of our very special guests!

Other confirmed speakers are (ordered by surname):

    Gerd Antes
    Anila Ashgar
    Johan Braeckman
    Edzard Ernst
    Chris French
    Dittmar Graf
    Hariet Hall
    Sven Ove Hansson
    Holm Hümmler
    Walter Krämer
    Benedikt Matenaer
    Chris Mooney
    Simon Perry
    Massimo Polidoro
    Gita Sahgal
    Eugenie Scott
    Simon Singh
    Samantha Stein
    Kylie Sturgess
    Rebecca Watson
    Jürgen Windeler
    Tomasz Witkowski

Alle Vorträge werden simultan ins Deutsche übersetzt.

Rooms in the congress hotel are available for 134 € (single) and 144 € (double) incl. breakfast. Reservations at this rate can be made HERE.

Ticket sales will be enabled in due course.

The conference is jointly sponsored by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), the Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften (GWUP, Germany) and the European Council of Skeptical Organisations (ECSO).