Skeptics in the Pub Contacts, Links and Resources. Listed below are the details of the current Skeptics in the Pub groups in the UK and Eire. Many of the Skeptics in the Pub events are organised by Skeptics Societies. The links below will direct you to the most relevant web pages to find out information relating to your local SitPs and, if applicable, the Societies which run them A list of SitPs outside the UK and Eire can be found here. If there is nothing listed locally to you, you may wish to start a Skeptics in the Pub of your own. Here are some useful resources:- A guide on setting up a Skeptics in the Pub, written by Simon Perry of Leicester SitP with input from various other SitP organisers highlighting many of the issues people may encounter can be found here. Blogposts by @christheneck and @PenguinGalaxy on setting up can be found here and here. A Register of SitP Speakers, hosted by The Twenty-First Floor, can be found here. A recording of the Skeptics in the Pub Workshop at QEDcon can be found here.
Westminster Skeptics 22 Aug. Ladies Who Do Skepticism. Westminster Skeptics. The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com. There you go, fixed it for you. Science says that thinking for myself is dangerous. You must trust in the Lord Science. You have to hand it to those homeopaths! They are terrific at sending themselves up, generously giving us a laugh at their expense. Very much in vogue at the moment is the creation of little animated dialogues between typically dim-witted homeopaths and typically arrogant skeptics.
Unfortunately, as the screenwriter evidently doesn’t engage with any skeptics, his cartoon skeptic’s script doesn’t much resemble anything that even the most arrogant of skeptics would really say or even think. Anyway, in this remake of the comic classic, I’ve left the homeopath’s comments exactly as they appear in the original but I have amended the arrogant skeptic’s script to something a bit more realistic (and, OK, I’ve camped him up a bit because it was fun).
Transcript Skeptic: There is no scientific evidence for homeopathy. Homeopath: John, how can you say such things? Skeptic: No, of course not. Skeptic: I didn’t. #Knitting at #TAMlondon - famous skeptics flummoxed by sock: @DJGrothe | Plixi. James Randi Educational Foundation. Don't Get Fooled Again. Dr Petra Boynton | Sex educator, Agony Aunt, Academic. Heresy Corner. The Skeptic. Gimpy’s blog. Bloggerheads (UK) | Tim Ireland on tabloids, media, blogs & politics. Nadine Dorries tells lies, digs hole, etc. | Bloggerheads. This entry was posted on Monday, November 1st, 2010 at 11:02 pm and is filed under Tories! Tories! Tories!. This article by David Allen Green that is very much about Nadine Dorries and what she told the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards has resulted in a string of remarkably similar comments underneath that article from an unknown number of people pretending to be more than one person, with strikingly similar views on it being less about the corruption and lying and All About Teh Stalking.
Two examples: randomgrainofsugar 01 November 2010 at 16:18 Slightly over the top don’t you think? I notice you don’t mention the stalker/nutter Tim Irealnd who gatecrashed our public meeting to film her? I “gatecrashed their public meeting” and was caught filming her… on my own camera in a planned live broadcast. This evening, Jim Hamilton kindly took the time to explain the situation as it stands to one of Dorries’ remaining supporters on Twitter. That’s about the size of it. The Quackometer -