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London Skeptics in the Pub – 21st July 2008

Hi All,

Warning! This months SitP is now on a Monday.

This months speaker is Terry Sanderson, the President of the National Secular Society and will be giving us a talk on news of a world religious revival.
There will be a skeptical nuddie calendar for the best question at Q&As – I have both male and female nuddies from skepchick.org, in case you were wondering. I’m feeling generous this month. Full details are under under the fold….right at the bottom.

If you have any photos of past Skeptics in the Pub meetings, feel free to share them on the group Flickr site or on our Facebook group.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/skeptics/

*London*

Dr Caroline Watt will be giving a talk at Kensington Central Library this Thursday, 6:35 pm:
Psychic experimenters and psychic healers: Research at the KPU
http://www.spr.ac.uk/expcms/index.php?section=4

If you missed it the other week, mind magician Philip Escoffey will be doing his excellent and mind-boggling stuff again at the Soho Theatre on Thursday 24th July – very good.
Tickets are £10. http://www.6impossiblethings.co.uk/

And just in case I forget and it sells out again next month, Robin Ince will be having a short run at the Camden Fringe in August with his “School for Gifted Children”, featuring more people being enthused about stuff they’ve found out about – science, comedy, music, serial killers; and is very good too.
http://camdenfringe.org/index.php?id=2&disp=details&acts_id=177

*York*
If you’ve got friends in the North East that would like to join in on the fun, John Jackson and Graham Lappin from UK Skeptics have organised a social at The Punch Bowl in York. Details can be found here: http://ukskeptics.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2689

*Leicester*

Simon Perry has another instalment of SitP Leicester. http://leicester.skepticsinthepub.org

The few of you subscribers who are on the WRONG side of the pond, Mike Feldman has managed to coerce a van load of people at TAM to start their own skeptics meetups around the US. You’d be a fool to miss out on one near you.
http://drinkingskeptically.org/

I think that’s it!

Please feel free to forward this email onto anyone you’d think would be interested in coming to any of these events, or even subscribing to this mailing list.

See you soon and toodle pip!

Sid Rodrigues

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Monday, July 21, 2008@7:00pm

Terry Sanderson – A World Religious Revival: Fact or Fiction?
There are repeated claims that there is some kind of massive religious revival going on around the world – but is it true? Terry Sanderson takes a skeptical look at the figures and finds that all is not as it seems.

Terry Sanderson is the President of the National Secular Society. He is also a freelance journalist and his column in GT magazine is the longest-running feature in any gay paper in the world – 25 years and still going strong.
He has also been an agony aunt on Woman’s Own under the tutelage of Claire Rayner.

The NSS wesbite is http://www.secularism.org.uk.

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