Hello all,
we had another great meeting of the Galway SITP! We discussed all manner of things related directly, peripherally and not at all to our supposed topic, "Cults and New Age Movements".
Yolande provided us with a jumping off point with a list of top ten cults and brought us around to cycling, $cientology, doomsday cults, mormons and more.
Podge wants to bring our attention to this fund raising activity in aid of St. Jude's Children's Hospital. It's all in honour of Dr. Burzynski's 70th Birthday - look, it's complicated. :) Follow the link through or come join us on our Facebook Page for more details. We're going to make a mass donation in the name of Galway Skeptics. Get in touch with us on the Facebook Page or via email if you want to help them out!
Come join us on the 28th for more Galway Skeptics in the Pub!
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Monday, 14 January 2013
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
Galway Skeptics Meeting 17 DEC 2012
So we had a very fine get-together last night in McSwiggans. If the world ends on Friday, at least we spent some of our time well, discussing Science and Skepticism in the pub (btw, Phil Plait has a great blog on why nothing is going to happen on Friday).
Yolande, Podge and Charles all presented great mini-talks on failed Apocalypse predictions - Harold Camping, Apocalypse Predictions as a resource and Y2K respectively.
You can find their presentations here. Give me a heads-up if the link doesn't work.
Huge shout out to the Galway Humanists from NUI,G- their Auditor, Peter, came to join us and start a process of linking up between us and them.
As part of revitalizing the blog, we'll do our best to put up a summary of every meeting we have. Keep an eye out for more blog updates and synopsises on our fortnightly meetings! Any feedback as to how to present/the content for these updates would also be hugely appreciated.
Our next regular day would be on the 31st of December, so there's no way we'ld have peace and quiet in our regular to discuss Science in a sensible fashion, so our next actual meeting is on the 14th of January, 2013.
Thanks,
donalfall
Yolande, Podge and Charles all presented great mini-talks on failed Apocalypse predictions - Harold Camping, Apocalypse Predictions as a resource and Y2K respectively.
You can find their presentations here. Give me a heads-up if the link doesn't work.
Huge shout out to the Galway Humanists from NUI,G- their Auditor, Peter, came to join us and start a process of linking up between us and them.
As part of revitalizing the blog, we'll do our best to put up a summary of every meeting we have. Keep an eye out for more blog updates and synopsises on our fortnightly meetings! Any feedback as to how to present/the content for these updates would also be hugely appreciated.
Our next regular day would be on the 31st of December, so there's no way we'ld have peace and quiet in our regular to discuss Science in a sensible fashion, so our next actual meeting is on the 14th of January, 2013.
Thanks,
donalfall
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