australian skeptics

Barry Williams (Australian Skeptics cofounder, and then president of for over a decade) passed away on Saturday. URL: [Barry Williams]

Tickets are now on sale for the Australian Skeptics National Convention, 22-24 November 2013 in Canberra. http://nationalskepticsconvention.org/

YAS and Skeptic Zone Present Talks! Skepticism 101 - Richard Saunders Dr Rachie Reports: Adventures of a Scientist in an Alternative Medicine World Venue - Melbourne University, 30th May, May 30th, 2009 - 4pm to 6pm - Theatre A in Elizabeth Murdoch, Melbourne University. The powers of the...

Here is my part of my reply to the cr@p article in the Daily Telegraph. Readers of the Daily Telegraph opinion section by Brendan Shanahan, "Tragedy of scoffing sceptics" on Friday the 30th of March, may have been scratching their heads in bemusement. Quite frankly, so were we. The full reply...

We at Australian Skeptics are putting online all the videos from the 2002 and 2004 conventions. We start with Ian Bryce and his talk on wacky and impossible inventions: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-232482849539274765 Keep an eye on this thread as I add more videos.

The Tank Podcast 26.Nov.2006 Australian Skeptics Convention Hear Lynne Kelly, Mark Mayer, Loretta Marron, Kylie Sturgess (yes, Kiless!) and some very cleaver young inventors all interviewed at the 2006 Australian Skeptics Convention. http://www.mysteryinvestigators.com/podcast.htm

Australian Skeptics Challenge Ellen Allen Ellen Allen uses energy therapy. By clicking her fingers, she claims to diagnose all sorts of ill See: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/secondopinion/txt/s1381039.htm To see our challenge, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLz01EFH6ig

http://www.abc.net.au/newsradio/txt/s1643045.htm Part way through the show we hear from Barry Williams of Australian Skeptics. StarStuff Presented by Stuart Gary - debunking astrology.

New Australian Skeptics Podcast out now... http://www.skeptics.com.au/tank/index.html The latest edition of The Skeptic Tank is now available from our Podcast page. This show features Lynne Kelly and the topic is Cold Reading. Lynne is an expert at this, and has developed a wonderful system...

Producers of 'Second Opinion' trying to nake light of the Australian Skeptics bent spoon. http://www.mysteryinvestigators.com/files/2005_spoon_Hobart_Mercury.jpg or http://tinyurl.com/97lab See also: http://www.skeptics.com.au/media/050813bentspoon.pdf :au:

I thought people might be interested to know that this year's winner of the Australian Skeptics' Bent Spoon award was the Australian ABC TV program "Second Opinion" for its uncritical promotion of unproven alternate medicine. More information at www.skeptics.com.au

See Alynda, Ian and myself as we did our 'Mystery Investigators' show at a Sydney High School. http://www.users.on.net/skeptic/skeptic/show/ Thanks to Randi for helping us with the Astrology reports. __________________

See photos of Ian Rowland in Melbourne at the Museum taking part in the Great Australian Science Show with Australian Skeptics. Also see lots of spoon bending! http://www.users.on.net/skeptic/skeptic/gass/

The Australian Skeptics National Conference will be taking place in Canberra from 22 to 24 August 2003, at the CSIRO Discovery Centre. In the past the conference has been held in October or November, but we've brought it forward this year to miss university exams, and to coincide with Science...