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URL:https://siliconbrighton.com/events/conspiracy-theories/
SUMMARY:Conspiracy Theories
DESCRIPTION:They are everywhere. Conspiracy Theories. But how seriously sho
 uld we take them and why are even the most sensible of people drawn to the
 m?\n Brighton Book Festival invites you to join us with neuroscientist an
 d author Dr. Daniel Yon and Conspiracy theorist\, journalist and writer Ja
 mes Ball as we dig into the spaces that maybe we should stay away from!\nD
 aniel Yon is an experimental psychologist\, cognitive neuroscientist and d
 irector of The Uncertainty Lab at Birkbeck\, University of London. He rece
 ived his PhD in 2018\, took up his first academic post in 2019 and joined 
 the faculty at Birkbeck in 2021 - where he is now Associate Professor (Rea
 der) in Cognitive Neuroscience. In 2023 he was made a Visiting Fellow of t
 he Paris Institute for Advanced Study and in 2024 he was awarded the Exper
 imental Psychology Society’s EPS Prize for distinguished\, independent a
 nd original contributions to experimental psychology. He lives in London w
 ith his wife\, Rosa.\n\n\nJames Ball is an award winning journalist\, broa
 dcaster and author\, fellow of the think-tank Demos\, and the political ed
 itor of The New European.\nHe has worked as the global editor of TBIJ\, a 
 special correspondent at BuzzFeed UKand special projects editor at The Gua
 rdian\, where he played a key role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage 
 of the NSA leaks by Edward Snowden\, as well as the offshore leaks\, HSBC 
 Files\, Reading the Riots and Keep it in the Ground projects.  At WikiLea
 ks he was closely involved in Cablegate – the publication of 250\,000 cl
 assified US embassy cables in 2010 – as well as working on two documenta
 ries based on the Iraq War Logs.\nJames is the author of multiple books\, 
 including "Post-Truth and "The Tangled Web We Weave: Inside The Shadow Sys
 tem That Shapes the Internet”. His most recent book\, “The Other Pande
 mic: How Qanon Contaminated The World” was published by Bloomsbury in Ju
 ly 2023.
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LOCATION:https://brightonbookfestival.co.uk/products/conspiracy-theories
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