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Dr. Robert Park

Superstition:
Belief in the Age of Science

  • Event Date: Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 2:00 pm
  • Location: Baxter Lecture Hall
  • Speaker: Dr. Robert Park
  • Tickets: First come first served at the door. Sorry, no advance ticket sales for this lecture. Seating is limited. $8 Skeptics Society members & Caltech/JPL Community;
    $10 General Public.

From uttering a prayer before boarding a plane, to exploring past lives through hypnosis, why has superstition become so pervasive in an age of science? Robert Park, the University of Maryland physics professor and the best-selling author of Voodoo Science, asks why people persist in superstitious convictions long after science has shown them to be ill-founded. He takes on supernatural beliefs from religion and the afterlife to New Age spiritualism and faith-based medical claims. He examines recent controversies and concludes that science is the only way we have of understanding the world. (more…)