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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
3 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
3 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
14 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
15 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!
15 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

‘One Law For All’ Campaign Against Shariah Law

The South Hampshire Humanists are meeting at 7pm on Sunday 30th May 2010 at Sembel House, Southampton, SO15 2FH.
There will be a talk about the ‘One Law for All’ campaign against the adoption of Sharia Law in the UK which will be presented by the noted rights activist Maryam Namazie.
We encourage all to attend and also take time to join the [...] [...]

Lord Justice Laws Judges Lord's Law Justice

*ahem* Sorry about the headline, it came to me in a dream Moving swiftly on…
Have a read of this paragraph from from Justice Laws’ judgment in the case of McFarlane v Relate Avon Ltd. which was a case brought by a christian counsellor who refused to give psycho-sexual therapy to homosexual couples because to do [...] [...]

Peace on Earth and Goodwill to All Men

The self-styled “religion of peace” again demonstrates otherwise in yet another sad and violent episode brought about because someone’s feelings were hurt.
What precisely is it going to take before the human race collectively grows up and puts this insane rubbish back into the cupboard of ‘bad-things’ ?
Can someone enlighten me ?
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Handling a Creationist

I don’t mean handling as in grabbing them by the scruff of the neck and holding their head in a bucket of water until they understand how science works, much as it might seem necessary with some creationists. Instead I mean handling creationists you may be related to with or know closely and who may not have given [...] [...]

Had to post this : The Catholics Get Another Shoeing

I don’t know who Nell McCafferty is but she certainly has her head screwed on properly.
Bravo Ma’am !

 I wonder if they will ever come to their senses and actually become that which their “saviour” wanted : men of humility.
Real humility instead of the self-aggrandising sort that seems to come with palaces, titles and very large [...] [...]

Catholic apologists get a shoeing.

This is part 1 of an excellent 5 part video from the Intelligence Squared Debate with Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry debating Archbishop John Onaiyekan and Anne Widdencombe MP on the topic “Is the Catholic church a force for good in the world?”
The boys get stuck into the church’s stance that condoms don’t help in the [...] [...]

Bonkers Bishops Fight Against Reality (again)

I don’t suppose there’s any hope for these people when they seem so hell-bent on denying the reality that slaps the people of Africa in the face every day. What is that reality ? That reality is AIDS and the thousands of people it kills and infects every year in the third world. The millions [...] [...]

Spy On the Almighty

There are webcams all over the place. A friend keeps one inside her fish tank which is a little strange I’ll grant you. But this webcam tops the lot.
Have you ever wanted to see what The Almighty is up to when not tinkering with obscure genetic processes, creating fluctuations in the quantum foam or being squeezed [...] [...]

Celebrate Halloween and be Satan’s Best Pal

Apparently in Leicestershire you can become good friends with the dude downstairs if you celebrate the heathen festival of Hallowe’en. Awesome.
According to the Belvoir Angel magazine Hallowe’en celebrants are “siding with the devil”. Wooooooo !
Sorry. That’s clearly a bad thing but not as bad as the curses that Hallowe’en brings to cities in Northern Ireland. The [...] [...]

Animal Cruelty in the Name of Religion

New studies investigating the question of whether animals feel pain when slaughtered in accordance with Muslim and Jewish religious law show that calves do appear to feel pain for up to two minutes after their throat is cut.
Previous studies in humans have found that there are specific brain signals associated with feeling pain. These same signals [...] [...]