Final QED 2025 additions: Making policy work panel, the European Skeptics Podcast, and Noah Lugeons

There are just ten days to go until QED 2025, and we are delighted to add the final two sessions to our line-up: a panel on the role of evidence in policy-making, a live recording of the European Skeptics Podcast, and Noah Lugeons.

Evidence in Action: Making Policy Work - When implementing national policies that impact communities across the UK, we often wish our politicians would make evidence-informed decisions that will have the greatest positive impact and the fewest unintended consequences. Yet, in recent years we’ve seen an uptick in MPs who are actively anti-evidence, with anti-vaxxers in the houses of parliament and Reform’s conspiracism dominating the social discourse. So how do we get better evidence into Parliament? What support do busy MPs get to make informed decisions? And how do discussion points make it into the houses of parliament? Join us as we discuss these topics and more with sitting MP Lizzi Collinge, science communicator Jamie Gallagher, UK parliament researcher Louise Thompson, and host Nicola Throp.

European Skeptics Podcast - The award-winning European Skeptics Podcast has spent ten years covering skeptical news and promoting skeptical activism. Their back catalogue of around 500 episodes contains analyses of skeptical trends and concerns as well as hundreds of interviews with people from all over the world. The current hosts are András Pintér from Hungary, and Pontus Böckman from Sweden, and the show’s outreach is truly international with an active network way beyond Europe.

Finally, unfortunately due to entirely unforeseen circumstances, Dr Matt Winning is no longer able to appear at QED 2025. However, ably stepping into the breach on the main will be podcaster, author, and atheist activist Noah Lugeons. Noah is the host of The Scathing Atheist, the 2014 Podcast Award winner for Best Religious Podcast, and God Awful Movies, which has been recorded live at the largest atheist conferences in the US, the UK, and Australia. He’s the author of several books on the subject of atheism.

Streaming tickets are currently available for QED 2025, granting access to all content in the panel room, podcast room and main stage - pick up yours today!