skeptics

NEW Everything from the first ten years of 'the Skeptic' is now available in the archives (pdf). The first five years are all in one book, and the second five years comes as a collection of books about different topic areas. http://www.skeptics.com.au/journal/index.html :D

2005 Convention Information AUSTRALIAN SKEPTICS NATIONAL CONVENTION 2005 August 13th – 14th Bond University, University Drive, Robina, Gold Coast Qld Each day six or seven speakers will give presentations on topics and issues relating to health, science, education, critical thinking and...

Well I watched this documentary on PBS last night, it was called "the education of Shelby Knox" about this girl growing up in Texas and having to deal with her very right wing community, I hunted down a forum discussing the film and its turned into church fest 2005. I need some critical...

That's right, it's time once again to gather together and hold serious intellectual discourse concerning the nature of reality. Wait, I mean goof off and make fart jokes! Woo hoo! Sunday SUNDAY SUNDAY! June 26, 2005 Come to Larry Barrieau's backwoods hideaway (think "Deliverance," but with...

I've been lurking on the "So what should skeptics do?" thread and I recently changed my mind due to another thread here: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=57090 I thought I would comment on what was helpful in persuading me and what was not for the...

1. No one can ever really change his or her sex. 2. More men than women are raped every day in America. 3. Life begins at conception. 4. An abortion is not simply "a bunch of cells"--it is a developing child. see ya

I had just received a sales letter in the mail today advertising Marc Salem's "PSP - The Art of Para-sensory Persuasion," which from the typical smooth-talker salesman tone and vocabulary, appears to me like a complete bunch of woo-woo nonsense. I usually throw this kind of junk mail in the...