We are meeting at 5pm at the Blue Moose on Sunday, October 3.
Topic of the Evening: Skepticism. We’ll start with how to be skeptical and what skepticism is.
Bring your favorite skeptical information and resources to share.
What areas are you most skeptical about? What areas do you think people should be more skeptical in? What is skepticism to you? Are there any areas where you feel you would like to be more skeptical, or you feel fall outside those boundaries?
We met at 5pm at the Blue Moose on Sunday, June 6 for Morgantown Atheists’ monthly meeting.
~Update: We had a rather small meeting since several members were galavanting about the globe. 
It was an interesting discussion, though, and the Lavender Cafe was delicious as usual.
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Topic of the evening is honoring and remembering great leaders in our country – our Founding Fathers – and in science. Bring along someone you admire from science, history, politics, skepticism or any other field to share with us.
We met Sunday May 2 at 5pm at the Blue Moose.
Our Topic of the Evening is Reason:
~Update: It was an interesting evening. I tried my Quirkology experiments, which didn’t go over so well since I didn’t have enough of the methodology and results of the studies they came from (yay for being skeptical, everyone!), Gerald brought in a great textbook and we did a few questions from that, Butch talked about the things that aren’t reasonable that people still believe in – superstitions – and we had a good discussion from that, and David brought in a quote from his favorite book – the Celtic Twilight by Yates, if I recall – which also sparked an interesting discussion.
Then we went to The Lavender Cafe for more great conversation and delicious food.
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4. sound judgment; good sense.
8. to think or argue in a logical manner.
9. to form conclusions, judgments, or inferences from facts or premises.
11. to think through logically, as a problem.
Let’s celebrate reason, common sense and critical thinking by real life experiments or logical puzzles. Everyone bring in a couple real life experiments we can do without disturbing anyone, or a reasoning puzzle we can figure out together. (we might only have time for one, but it would be better to have extras to choose from)
If you bring in an experiment, it might be nice to explain how the scientific method works. Or if you bring in a reasoning puzzle, explain how critical thinking and reasoning works.
For some ideas, you could try these sources:
If you have good ideas to spare, leave comments to share with the rest of us!
Awhile ago some of us shared some podcasts and radio shows that we thought you might enjoy. I have come across a few more that I want to share as well.
Edit: Gerald recommended a bunch of podcasts:
If you try these out, let us know what you think!
We met Sunday April 11 at 4:30-ish pm at the Daniel and Ivy’s House.
Update: We had a great time at Daniel and Ivy’s. Daniel is a great BBQer and Ivy puts on a fantastic spread. Everything was delicious, the company was awesome, the conversation was interesting, and overall I think it was just wonderful. The weather was perfect too!
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Update: The Morgantown CoR is gearing up for our worthwhile cause, the West Virginia Botanic Garden. On April 11 from 2-4pm, the WVBG is having a Volunteer Orientation. See the post for details. We’ll meet at 2pm at the park and then go directly to Daniel and Ivy’s afterward for a bit of an early meeting and BBQ! 
For the Topic of the Evening, the floor is yours! We are having an Open Topic, which means you get a few minutes to talk about anything that interests you. Suggestions for your topics:
Brent sent me a list of his favorite internet radio stations and podcasts to share with you. I listen to several as well so I will add them below:
~Edit: I’ve added descriptions for you!
Brent’s Favs:
Neece’s Favs:
~Edit:
Tim’s Fav:
Here’s one from Gerald:
Feel free to contribute your favorites!
Skeptical thinking is such a wonderful tool to have. It means you don’t get scammed or BS’ed nearly as much by shoddy news or dodgy advertising. You also get to save money because you’ll be less apt to buy gimmicky cure-alls that do nothing but drain your wallet and give you false hope. In his book, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Michael Shermer recently made a great companion video talking about The Baloney Detection Kit: (approx. 14 min)
Here are the 10 points from the video: Read the rest of this entry »
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