QED: Question. Explore. Discover.

02/06/2025

We have fewer than 100 tickets left for the last ever QED so hurry to qedcon.org now and grab yours before missing out!

📣Tickets to last ever QED are now on sale! 📣

Join Annie Kelly, Michael Marshall, Anna Ploszajski, Naomi Ryan, Jamie Gallagher and Robin Ince and more for a weekend of talks, panels, workshops and podcasts and more in Manchester in October.

Details: https://qedcon.org/news/2025/tickets-to-final-qed-on-sale-now

06/05/2025

📣Tickets to last ever QED are now on sale! 📣

Join Annie Kelly, Michael Marshall, Anna Ploszajski, Naomi Ryan, Jamie Gallagher and Robin Ince and more for a weekend of talks, panels, workshops and podcasts and more in Manchester in October.

Details: https://qedcon.org/news/2025/tickets-to-final-qed-on-sale-now

10/04/2025

QED 2025: One Last Time

All good things must come to an end, and after fifteen years of running the UK’s largest celebration of science, reason and critical thinking, 2025 will see the final QED conference.

QED Returns 25th-26th 2025 with a free SkeptiCamp hosted by our friends at Skeptics in the Pub - Online on Friday 24th.

Mark your calendars for May 6th 3pm BST when tickets will go on sale and check the website for hotel discount details.

https://qedcon.org/news/2025/tickets-to-final-qed-on-sale-may-6

17/10/2024

Covid safety at QED

With QED just days away, we wanted to let you know what precautions we are taking to minimise risk from covid infections over the weekend.

16/10/2024

The event is right around the corner! Are you all ready to make new friends?

One of the best things about attending QED is the social side – from chatting and hanging out in the bar and social spaces, to sharing thoughts digitally with other attendees during talks and panels. With that in mind, we have a few ways to help make socialising a little easier!

14/10/2024

We're closing in person ticket sales in a little over two hours. On top of the 12 mainstage speakers, the £189 ticket price will also get you access to see 8 panels (see the images attached!).

Plus 5 live podcast recordings with Loremen, InKredulous, Skeptics with a K, European Skeptics Podcast and The Body of Evidence. And 4 workshops with Chris French, Jamie Gallagher, Richard Wiseman and Meirion Jones.

Plus a Saturday evening of live entertainment with David Alnwick, Abi Clarke and Alasdair Beckett-King.

Grab your ticket now at www.QEDcon.org

14/10/2024

It's time to make difficult choices. What will you have to miss to see that speaker you're desperate to see? Which panel clashes with your favourite podcast? Who is most likely to tell you how to be in 2 places at once?

The QED 2024 schedule is now live:

The moment you’ve been waiting for is almost here and the full schedule for the weekend is available now.

12/10/2024

Meet our TWELVE mainstage speakers for QED 2024. Don't forget - in person ticket sales end this coming Monday at 9pm BST. Grab your tickets at www.qedcon.org

11/10/2024

We are pleased to announce our FINAL unannounced session for QED 2024: From the pit to the palace – social class in Britain.

Join Andy Wilson as he talks to Dan Evans, Lizzi Collinge MP and Tracy Shildrick about the role of class in modern society.

It is often said that class is the great divide in British society, but what does social class mean in 2024? Is it a set of escalators where we can easily move up and down? Or more like an open prison, where only occasionally do a few manage to escape? If you are born working class do you remain tha...

09/10/2024

The European Skeptics Podcast - live at QED 2024

The award-winning European Skeptics Podcast is about to enter its tenth year of covering skeptical news and promoting skeptical activism. Their back catalogue of around 450 episodes contains analyses of skeptical trends and concerns, as well as hundreds of interviews with people from all over the world.

https://qedcon.org/updates/2024/european-skeptics-podcast-live-at-qed-2024

08/10/2024

🕑In Person Ticket Sales Closing! 🕑

Ticket sales close Monday 14th October at 9pm BST so hurry if you want to get your ticket for QED 2024.

If you can't make it in person grab a streaming ticket for £45 for access to 11 main stage talks & 8 panels!

If you can make it in person what are you waiting for? Head to http://qedcon.org now to grab your ticket for £189.

You'll get access to 12 main stage talks, 8 panels, 5 live podcast recordings, 4 workshops plus Saturday night entertainment with two comedians & a magician!

QED is the UKʼs largest skepticism and pop-science conference, taking place in the Mercure Piccadilly Hotel in Manchester on 19th-20th October 2024.

08/10/2024

QED rewatch: UFOs, UAPs, and the Quest for Understanding (2023)

In an age of omnipresent camera technology coupled with advanced image and video manipulation tools, ufology has witnessed a renaissance. Last year even saw public hearings in Washington DC, airing the evidence (or lack thereof) for what are now often known as UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena)...