Dany | Friday, 30 October, 2009
Hello!
Yes it’s time for Skeptic vodcast number 4… which features a Darwinian adventure you can’t afford to miss.
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Chris French | Friday, 2 October, 2009
We are in the final stages of producing a “Best of the Skeptic” volume by the title of “Why Statues Weep”. The Skeptic magazine is the UK’s longest running publication devoted to examining science, secularism, psychology, critical thinking and claims of the paranormal. This collection covers a wide range of topics such as popular myths, UFOs, psychic fraudsters, claims of psychic healing and alien abduction, near-death experiences, false memories, and much, much more. The book includes contributions from Susan Blackmore, John Diamond, Edzard Ernst, Ray Hyman, Richard Wiseman, and many other leading sceptical commentators, as well as interviews with Stephen Fry, Paul Daniels, and Joe Nickell.
Advance orders are now be taken for delivery for Xmas 2009 at the special price of £9.99 within the UK and £11.99 elsewhere (post free in both instances). The RRP for the book will be £11.99. Register with no commitment by calling 020 7841 1959 or by emailing matthew@philosophersnet.com
Wendy M Grossman, Chris French & Simon Hoggart (eds.). (2009). Why Statues Weep: The Best of the Skeptic. London: Philosophy Press.
The perfect Xmas present?
Mark | Thursday, 3 September, 2009
If you already subscribe to The Skeptic you should receive the relaunch issue of the magazine very shortly. Inside the issue is an interview conducted with James Randi on Sunday 20th April 2008, the day after his first presentation to a British audience in over a decade.
Randi kindly allowed our small group into his Vauxhall hotel room, where we filmed the interview prior to his departure to visit the Magic Circle. He was a very gracious and accommodating host.
In the 52 minute interview, Randi discusses his Canadian education, walking out of an English Literature exam, truancy, magic and his 22 jailbreaks, Uri Geller, Project Alpha and fooling scientists, exposing Peter Popoff and miracle healing, thinking critically and independently, mortality, heart bypass surgery and medical science.
The resulting film has now been released to accompany the print version of the interview. It forms part of the Media Archive but has been split into six parts, starting here (from http://youtube.com/theskepticmag).
Please comment, subscribe and circulate this as widely as possible. Most of all, enjoy.
Sid | Saturday, 23 May, 2009
Now with extended footage from Science, Reason and Critical Thinking
Letters of Support
Dave Gorman
Nick Cohen
Dr Evan Harris M.P.
Simon Singh (Introduced by Prof Brian Cox)
Mark | Saturday, 9 May, 2009
Following the official press release from the James Randi Educational Foundation advising that the most recent preliminary test for the Million Dollar Challenge had been lost, an article has today been published providing comments from the claimant regarding the non-significant outcome, here:
http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/549-patricia-putt-mdc-test-protocol-failure.html
Try to guess the explanations for the failure, before clicking that link.
Details of the experimental protocol and its development, if you’re interested, are here:
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=118952
