Jeremy is a rights-based animal advocate. He focuses on making videos highlighting the unique personalities of our animal cousins at FRIEND Animal Sanctuary as well as other sanctuaries internationally.

Jeremy also makes informational YouTube videos, does street outreach, mentors new vegans, supports the largest vegan events in the UK, has appeared on the radio as well as podcasts. He also provides free resources and support for both vegans and the vegan-curious through his website www.VeganInteractions.com.

Do other animals experience life? If so, does this give them a valid claim to basic moral rights, which would be violated when we use them?

This interactive talk will include these topics and more exploring the philosophy of animal rights. Bring your questions and passion for critical thinking so we can all explore this topic further together. 

Humans make judgements and decisions of staggering sophistication every day, and routinely solve problems entirely unachievable by modern AI. There is a popular trend to see humans as biased reasoners, but this is only half the picture. This talk will present modern psychological understanding of how humans incorporate their vast banks of knowledge about how the world works and what is already true, with new information to form new beliefs. We will see how this ability allows people to make huge leaps of inference from very limited information, but also how this double edged sword can lead to the most notorious biases such as confirmation bias. It ends with some ideas on how the power of human intuition can be harnessed while minimising bias.

Dr Stephen Dewitt is a teaching fellow at University College London. His PhD and current research focuses on how humans update their beliefs in light of new information, and how they handle uncertainty and complexity when reasoning about the world.  

£5 on the door

Homeopathy, acupuncture, chiropractic, osteopathy, reiki, herbs, naturopathy all DO work. 

In this talk, Richard applies his experience as a surgeon, with his intuition as a Member of the Magic Circle to perform a critical examination of complementary and alternative medicine - and skeptically advises how we all may avoid being deceived.

Richard Rawlins is a consultant surgeon, lecturer, expert witness, apothecary, hypnotist, author and magician. He applies his experience as a practising clinician and his intuition as a psychological illusionist to explain what is going on.

£5 on the door.

It has become a tradition for Worthing Skeptics to apply skepticism to politics with a public event before an election or referendum. We did 2015, 2016, 2017 and, now, 2023.

This one is being held in Field Place Barn, Durrington.

There is parking and a good bus and train service.

All the candidates have accepted our invitation.

Doors open at 7:30pm and there will be a bar.

The event will start at 8pm.

Admission just £2 (we have to cover costs) 

 

 Climate change is finally getting the attention it needs. 

Some of you may remember that Robin was our first birthday guest in 2014 when we met in Barney's (now The Libertine) and had a packed house. 

Comedy writer and journalist Ariane Sherine created and organised the Atheist Bus Campaign, persuading Richard Dawkins and Humanists UK to support her – and buses with variations on the slogan “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life” ran in 13 countries across the globe.

As a result, Ariane received an Inbox full of hate mail from Christians, which eventually led to a major nervous breakdown and suicidal ideation. She ended her journalistic career, and didn’t write again for over three years. 

In this talk, she will tell the full story of how therapy and medication saved her life, prompting her to write her new book, Talk Yourself Better: A Confused Person’s Guide to Therapy, Counselling and Self-Help.

Ariane will also be signing copies of Talk Yourself Better. 5.00 on the door.

Computer bits that can be in two positions simultaneously?

My brain hurts!

Come and see if you can grasp the quantum world...

We are very pleased to present Professor Keller from Sussex University who is at the forefront of this new field.

£3 on the door.

Our plan to become an ACTIVE skeptics group is progressing! 

Following our interactive Critical Thinking Brainstorm last month we are staging another event that you can positively engage in!

Do you remember Brian Edwards who debated me a year ago?

On May 15th we will play his video "The Bible: an authentic book" and shred it!

Our committee will be onstage stopping and starting the playback and taking notes.

If you spot a fallacy, error, claim, assumption, attempt to smuggle an untruth or any other problem, just shout OBJECTION! 

I even object to the inclusion of the Union Jack on the cover of the video!

We will stop the video and talk about the objection before continuing to show it...

When complete, I will edit the video with our reviews, send it back to Brian and flood the internet with it!

This will be more fun than a pub quiz!

Who wants to play?

£2 on the door. 

 In this day and age of fake news, antivaxers, climate change deniers, gloop purveyors and the like, the need for skepticism is greater than ever.

Andrew and I are collaborating on a series of presentations and/or videos. 

We would like your involvement. 

Please come along and contribute. 

FREE ADMISSION!. 

Zac (pictured) and I debated for New Zealand Association of Rationalists and Humanists in Auckland in January 2018.
This is the rematch! 
We will toss for who goes first. 

£2 on the door to cover expenses

Toby Wilsher is a theatre director, playwright, author, musician, a director of BOP training consultancy and a senior consultant with Mission Performance.
Toby co-founded TRESTLE THEATRE COMPANY in 1981, and was its Artistic Director until 2004.  Since then he has worked as a freelance director and playwright.

Chichester Skeptics, our sister group, had Toby recently and he gave a great talk on the development of communications! 

£5 on the door.