Pseudoscience: From Quirks to Quacks

The Pseudoscience mini lecture series offers an excellent opportunity to gain a better understanding of the scientific reality behind a number of key and popular issues and discussions in today's society. Leading scientists will be offering short, accessible, and perhaps even controversial (from a political perspective) seminars in everyday language. The lectures will be followed by a question-and-answer period. The topics cover hot-button issues that interest the general public. Outlined in further detail below, the seminars themselves could be an interesting topic for coverage . Alternatively, media professionals are also encouraged to consider the series as a way of gaining a greater understanding of these subjects. April 7 - Science and the paranormal - Expert: Joe Schwarcz, Director, Office for Science and Society - History is peppered with accounts of psychics predicting the future, mediums conversing with the dead, and aliens abducting earthlings.