The Rational Parliament – Debate

The Rationalist Association & The Good Thinking Society present The Rational Parliament This House agrees that genetic modification is a rational approach to meeting food demand. How do you feel about genetically modified food? Does your heart disagree with your brain? Come along to the first-ever sitting of the Rational Parliament to debate your views on GM food with scientists researchers campaigners and policy people. The Rational Parliament is an experimental debating society set up to tackle political questions using free and critical thinking not dogma or scientism. Clerk and founder Adam Smith a journalist who covers the politics of science and is an armchair scientist a walker and an unpublishable novelist. Parliamentary commissioner for standards Caspar Melville chief executive of the Rationalist Association and editor of New Humanist magazine. Speaker of the house Michael Brooks writes a weekly science column at New Statesman and is a consultant at New Scientist. He demonstrated the scope of his political ambition in 2010 when he formed a political party (The Science Party) stood against Conservative MP David Tredinnick in the general election and lost his deposit. Admission is Free but registration is necessary.