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Daniel Loxton

WHAT: Haunted Humanity: The Fringe Is Not Fringe, and That’s a Big Deal
Paranormal, pseudoscientific, and fringe beliefs are chronically understudied major aspects of the human condition — and significant drivers of world events since antiquity. He explores why baseless beliefs are consistently dismissed until it is too late, and why we are so often unprepared for events we were warned about, from climate change to pandemics to the ascendancy of paranoid conspiracy theories in American politics. Paranormal and similar weird beliefs are neither a “rising tide” nor a winnable battle, but a challenging endemic reality that must be continually faced and managed. ¿What would it take to get serious about the overlooked central role that weird beliefs play in shaping society?

WHO: Daniel Loxton is a Canadian writer and illustrator who studies allegedly paranormal and other fringe claims for the nonprofit Skeptics Society. Since 2002, Daniel has been the Editor and primary creator for Junior Skeptic, the 10-page kids’ science section bound within Skeptic magazine. He is the coauthor with Donald Prothero of Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids (Columbia University Press, 2013). He has also written and illustrated four books for children, including the Canadian national Lane Anderson Award-winning Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be.

WHEN: Thursday 11 March 7:30PM

WHERE: Online link coming soon.

HOW: Brought to you by the Bay Area Skeptics

WHY: Because we are curious creatures.

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