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For the next Winchester SitP on the 26th of August we are pleased to host, from Improbable Science, the most excellent Prof. David Colquhoun. .

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Crispian_JagoCrispian_Jago: This weeks FRIDAY QUIZ is relatively easy, so you'll need to be quick. T-29 mins
2 hours ago from Seesmic Web
Crispian_JagoCrispian_Jago: The FRIDAY MUSIC quiz will be at 10am sharp
4 hours ago from Twitter for iPhone
paddyrexpaddyrex: @peterrowlett brilliant. I love @brum_skeptics but it'll be nice to be at one where somebody else is doing the running round #sitp
4 hours ago from Twitter for iPhone
paddyrexpaddyrex: Delivering training tmorrow, better start winding down. Just edited post #sitp chat with @tkingdoll. @PenguinGalaxy you are next mwah ha ha!
11 hours ago from TweetDeck
dts1970dts1970: @paddyrex @christheneck next week I formally start my bid to join the #sitp 92 club ;) or 20 odd club, however many we have :)
12 hours ago from twicca
paddyrexpaddyrex: @christheneck Road Trip!!! Not like @dts1970 though who's turned into a #sitp junkie. He's going to need treatment.
12 hours ago from TweetDeck
paddyrexpaddyrex: @unfortunatalie it was a fine #sitp which would've been even better with your presence :)
13 hours ago from TweetDeck
Crispian_JagoCrispian_Jago: Will be publishing a new "children's book" this evening
15 hours ago from Twitter for iPhone
mikehall314mikehall314: RT @SkepticPoet: @mjrobbins is at @GMSkeptics #SitP right now! If you're sitting at home watching Phil Mitchell burn a pub down on crack, get up and leave!
15 hours ago from web
Crispian_JagoCrispian_Jago: Take a look at our Humanist Heritage: http://bit.ly/aCpYt8
15 hours ago from Nambu
Crispian_JagoCrispian_Jago: @MrMMarsh I have a spare bedroom that you are welcome too if stuck, but I'm quite a way out of London #tamlondon
16 hours ago from Nambu
SkepticPoetSkepticPoet: @mjrobbins is at @GMSkeptics #SitP right now! If you're sitting at home watching Phil Mitchell burn a pub down on crack, get up and leave!
16 hours ago from web
shell_hereshell_here: For some reason I'd never seen Richard Wiseman's Colour Changing Card Trick: http://bit.ly/fPQdk Finally looked it up thanks to #sitp y'day!
17 hours ago from TweetDeck

Q E D

Quod erat demonstrandum : That which was to have been demonstrated.
I wonder what that could be ?
Any ideas ?

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Winchester’s MP Steve Brine supports Homeopathy Motions!

I can’t remember what exactly but something on Twitter alerted me to a Merseyside Skeptics blogpost about Early Day Motions in support of Homeopathy. I clicked a few links and found to my horror that my new MP was a signatory to all four of them. Mark Oaten may have had his issues but he [...] [...]

Give Homeopathy Another Push…

… preferably off a funding precipice.
Let’s give the government another push and get some extra weight behind the recommendations of the Commons Science and Technology Evidence Committee.
They reported the absence of efficacy beyond placebo of homeopathy and that it should not be funded via the NHS.
“To maintain patient trust, choice and safety, the Government should not endorse the [...] [...]

10:23 How Much Do You Really Know About Homeopathy ?

Many people believe homeopathy is “herbal medicine” or simply “all-natural remedies”. Few people realise homeopathy has been proven not to work; even fewer know it involves substances so dilute that there’s nothing left in them. Homeopathy takes advantage of this uncertainty to sit alongside real, proven medicines on the shelves of our major pharmacies.
Homeopathy is [...] [...]

So What Wouldn't Boots Sell?

In response to recent questions from the House of Commons parliamentary science watchdog about Boots’ insistence on selling homeopathic preparations, their chief pharmacist Paul Bennett admitted:
“I have seen no evidence that these products are efficacious. It’s about consumer choice and a large number of our customers think they work.”
and added that he thought the responsibility [...] [...]

10:23 Sign Up

We critically thinking, rational types are well aware that the reason why homeopathy doesn’t work beyond the placebo effect is because, in all probability, there are bugger all active ingredients in any remedy above 15C. In fact, the scientifically unproven technique of like curing like means that even the remedies below 15C, that might just [...] [...]

Woo of the Week

This week’s winner of the illustrious Woo of the Week trophy is :
That all-time crackpot pseudomedicine : Homeopathy !
Rating : Risibly crass.
Why is it Woo of the Week Dave ? Good question. Well I’ll tell you. Let’s hit the bullet points here :

Uses the magical idea of the so-called Law of Similars or like cures like ie. [...] [...]