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  • Members: 316
  • Category: Education
  • Founded: Aug 10, 1998
  • Language: English
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I will be giving a free lecture Sat Oct 18th on not just Dennis, but the long history and culture of other free energy kooks and con men at 2pm at the...
1 Oct 16, 2003
2:20 am

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People, On October I8th, I will be giving a talk on "the Fringe Fanatics of Free Energy " that I have been invited to give to CSICOPs conference on hoaxes...
1 Oct 7, 2003
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People, Here's a really whacked out group right in our area: The Delaware Valley Demonology Research http://www.demonologyresearch.com/DVDR/index.html Our...
1 Sep 18, 2003
11:28 pm

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People, Time to start our 9th or 10th PhACT season. There is still value to critical thinking. The same thinking skills used on questions like "does astrology...
1 Sep 9, 2003
4:36 am

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People, Although PhACT is officially off for the summer, there are a bunch of us informally getting together this Wednesday the 9th at noon for Pizza at Al...
2 Jul 7, 2003
2:07 pm

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People, you should have your latest issue of Phactum in the mail by now. If you don't get yours by Thursday, it could mean your membership has lapsed, in...
1 Jun 12, 2003
3:06 am

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The last meeting featuring Faye Flam went really well. The next issue of Phactum should be out maybe late this week. In other news, Bob Glickman hopes to stay...
1 Jun 3, 2003
3:42 am

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People, We are coming up on our last 2 meetings of the season: This coming Saturday in our old location, the Bensalem Public Library, we will hear from...
1 May 12, 2003
12:03 am

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People, Dr. Walter Rowe will give a talk on "Junk Science in Court" Saturday April 19th at 2pm at room W2-48 of the West Building of the Community College of...
1 Apr 17, 2003
4:25 am

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People, Phact's and CSICOP's booth at the National Science Teachers Convention in Philadelphia went quite well - we had a constant flow of interested teachers....
1 Apr 11, 2003
3:25 am

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People, This Friday at 6:30 is "Meet Amanda Chesworth Night" - a dinner. Amanda is a dynamic CSICOP person doing a great job of extending skepticism to young...
1 Mar 26, 2003
4:54 am

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People, This Saturday we have a fascinating talk by a cult "exit counselor" (maybe better known as "deprogrammer&quot;) speaking on Harmful Cults at 2pm at CCP. As...
1 Mar 14, 2003
3:53 am

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People, On March 27th - 30th, a bunch of us will help CSICOP people man a booth at the National Science Teacher's Convention in Philadelphia. We will be...
1 Mar 5, 2003
5:11 am

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People, Looks like the weather is going to be bad tomorrow so we are canceling the Phact meeting. So hold out for March 15th 2pm. As consolation, you...
1 Feb 14, 2003
7:04 am

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People, Don't miss our coming meeting Feb 15th 2pm with a lecture by Joe Szimhart on "Harmful Cults" at the Philadelphia Community College. (more details at...
1 Feb 9, 2003
6:26 am

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People, On the 18th, we will hear from Dr. Barrie Cassileth author of "Alternative Medicine Handbook: The Complete Reference Guide to Alternative and...
1 Jan 13, 2003
12:39 pm

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People, Jan 3rd will have at least 8 of us so far at the Jarrettown Inn at 12:15. One topic to discuss there, Howard W. will bring along his middle school...
1 Dec 31, 2002
4:16 pm

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quick reminder here, oh ye of little faith: December 15th at 5pm at the Farm lane meeting room (near Jacks) in North Wales will be the scene of our winter...
1 Dec 10, 2002
4:50 am

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People, the now annual PhACt Winter Solstice (also known as Newtonamas) Party will again be at the in the retirement community building near Jack Rohr's place...
1 Dec 4, 2002
4:47 am

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The Leonids meteor shower around Nov 19th will not be quite as good as last year - but still of interest: http://www.space.com/leonids/ The following is...
1 Nov 12, 2002
5:43 am

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Hi, I heard that the Phactum article from young Katharine Merow was on the cover of Skeptical Briefs. The article was on her first hand test of local...
1 Oct 15, 2002
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Hello Phactors, Sept. 28th, the Hatboro borough hall will be haunted by the South Jersey Paranormal Psychic Research group investigating reports of ghosts....
1 Sep 26, 2002
2:35 am

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Next Meeting a.. September 21, 2:00 p.m. - Bob Glickman vs. The Flying Saucers Location: West Building, RM W2-48, Community College of Philadelphia In August,...
1 Sep 20, 2002
4:42 am

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People, you should have gotten the last issue of Phactum - It had a great article by young Katherine Merow who did a great test to see what psychics would have...
1 Sep 9, 2002
3:41 am

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People, It will again be in Upper Dublin, I predict the weather will be cooler. We will be in the pavilion of the south east corner of Mondauk Common park....
1 Aug 20, 2002
3:59 am

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People, What a night last night. We had over 100 people - Mike Shermer did a great job, people loved him and we easily sold every one of the books he...
1 Jun 22, 2002
3:01 pm

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FYI: On *This American Life* this week (on right now, 10-11pm, 90.9fm) they have a show about Recovered memory Therapy. Eric Hamell ...
1 Jun 20, 2002
2:29 am

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People, Our annual picnic will be Aug 24th at the south east corner of Upper Dublin's Mondauk Common Park. Don't miss a chance to hear Mike Shermerthis Friday...
1 Jun 18, 2002
4:03 am

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Hey, Hey, Did anyone see last nights Simpsons? It was the one where Homer sees an ET and Lisa shows her copy of "Jr Skeptic Magazine" . . . now a reality...
1 Jun 12, 2002
12:21 pm

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Seen recently in a Center City weekly: Tommy Gentekos Hair Salon Tommy thinks he has mastered the ancient art of feng shui... he will cut and color your hair...
1 May 31, 2002
3:56 am

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