Skepticule 086: Death of Christmas; God's own prayers; Anon Steve's slippery slope ECHR update; NSS AGM; Adam Rutherford on James Watson; Johno's just world for oven doors.
Shownotes:
- George Carey — "The black day Christmas finally died" — Daily Mail
- Saturnalia
- Ēostre: Ecclesiastical History of the English People — Bede
- Chiltern Humanists — talk by Paul Thompson
- Premier Christian Radio
- Peter Kerridge, CEO
- Ephesians 6:12
- Justin Brierley — Unbelievable?
- God on Facebook
- Anonymous Steve: Slippery Slope Fallacy
- Paul Orton's blogpost — "Anonymous Steve fights for his rights"
- Adam Rutherford — "He may have unravelled DNA, but James Watson deserves to be shunned" — Guardian
- Adam Rutherford — The Beauty of Anatomy — BBC4, iPlayer
- Skepticule 064: Location podcast from Down House
- Rosalind Franklin
- Crick, Watson, Wilkins: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1962
- Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
- H. J. Heysenck — Check Your Own IQ
- Mensa
- Anonymous Steve — Radio 5 Live — Fighting Talk, 2014-11-29
- Acupuncture
- Be Reasonable podcast — Michael Marshall
- 10 o'clock (or is it?)
- Jim Humble — Miracle Mineral Solution — Be Reasonable
- Pearced Off with Jonathan M. S. Pearce — Just an oven door
- Just-world hypothesis
- Peter & Paul Show, episode 2
Editing and shownotes: Paul S. Jenkins
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Missing God Gene
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