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SkepLit: The Choosening – Update

First of all, a massive apology that this didn’t go up right after we did The Choosening officially. I decided that since we now have regular members and a bit more of a routine, we wouldn’t open up the list to general voting. Instead, all the books presented at the group would have a chance

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Tonight: Is philosophy relevant to science?

Published on October 11th, 2012 by in SiTP

Tonight at Greater Manchester Skeptics monthly SiTP, we’re proud to host Dr Clio Bellenis. After philosophy was dismissed by physicist Brian Cox, she decided that she had to speak out in favour of this oft-misunderstood subject. Addressing philosophical concepts such as personal identity and free will, Dr. Bellenis will talk some modern philosophical thought and the

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SkepLit: The Choosing – Our Next Books Have Been Chosen

Published on April 9th, 2012 by in Bookclub

The votes are in, over at SkepLitBooks. It’s been an intense week of voting. Well, it’s been a week of voting, at least. Finally, we have our books for the next few months. In fact, we have a bit of an issue, as some of the books have received the same number of votes. Since

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SkepLit Versus The Extremists: The Rematch – 22nd Jan 2012

Published on January 4th, 2012 by in Bookclub, Skeplit

Jon Ronson has just had one of his books made “Story of the year” by the Guardian. The tale of a young man who pretended to be mentally ill to get off a GBH charge, and then spent the next ten years in Broadmoor with the diagnosis of psychopathy appears in his latest book, The

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SkepLit 23rd October: Psychopath Sunday

Published on October 7th, 2011 by in Skeplit

If you’ve ever wanted the chance to discuss some of the many great books out there on science, skepticism and rational thinking, this is your chance. SkepLit meets every month at MadLab in the Northern Quarter and gives people the chance to meet up and talk about the books they’ve been reading. This month, we’re

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