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Richard Dawkins Forum launches monthly Science Writing Competition
While I don’t have as much free time as I would like these days, the forum at http://forum.richarddawkins.net/ remains one of my favourite places to hang out on the net, along with the JREF forum and UK Skeptics. My beliefs … Continue reading
A Day in the Life of a Paranormal Investigator
I just wrote this on the UK Skeptic’s forum, in response to this article by Chris Sherwood here on the same subject. I think mine is closer to the truth 🙂 And before you panic, it’s not autobiographical – these … Continue reading
Posted in Dreadful attempts at humour, Paranormal, Science, Uninteresting to others whitterings about my life
Tagged a day in the life of a paranormal investigator, Chris Sherwood, JREF, Paranormal, parapsychology, psychical research, Society for Psychical Research, UK Skeptics, want to be a paranormal investigator?
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UK Sceptics Newsletter
Hey chaps and chapesses, I have been meaning to share this for a while. The excellent UK Sceptics, whose forum is linked if you look on this blog have released a pdf newsletter which deserves a wider readership. You can … Continue reading
Posted in Debunking myths, Fun forthcoming events, Paranormal
Tagged alternatives to TAM London which is sold out, Cumbria, download Sceptics newsletter, exciting conferences you can attend, ghosties ghoulies and three legged beasties, Jason Braithwaite, Muncaster, redundant tags caused by variant transatlantic spellings, Scepticism, skepticism, thing that go bump in the night, UK Sceptics Conference, UK Sceptics Newsletter, UK Skeptics, UK Skeptics Conference, UK Skeptics Newsletter, uk-sceptics, Wendy Cousins
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Psychic News closes down after 78 years — but why?
I am aware of the byzantine politics of the Spiritualist movement, and the complex theological, administrative and personality clashes which sometimes (always?) arise. In this the Spiritualist National Union is much like any other church, or much like any other organisation, be it poetry club or gardening society.
In those two factors, economic issues and doubtless some political manoeuvring we see the immediate reasons for the decline of Psychic News (a newspaper that as long term reader of this blog may recall once featured me on the front page!). It is a shame, but possibly to be expected. And yet… Continue reading →