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Canberra Skeptics: An Introduction to MPS (Management PseudoScience): Or Why a Hard Nose is No Protection for a Soft Head
[ Tuesday, December 13, 2011; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. ] A Canberra Skeptics Lecture Speaker: John Smyrk Date: 13 December 2011 Time: 6:00 – 7:30pm Location: Optus Lecture Theatre, CSIRO Discovery Science Centre, Clunies Ross Street Acton ACT 2601 Free Admission The field of management has provided particularly rich soil for the cultivation and propagation of nonsense. This observation lies in sharp contrast to the common perceptions of managers as cold, hard, evidence-based decision … Read on »
Canberra Skeptics: Get off that Armchair and Change the World! – Skeptical Activism in Action
[ Monday, November 14, 2011; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. ] Speaker: Richard Saunders Date: 14 November 2011 Time: 6:00 – 7:30pm Location: Optus Lecture Theatre, CSIRO Discovery Science Centre, Clunies Ross Street Acton ACT 2601 Free Admission Richard Saunders will give an overview of some of the recent success achieved by skeptical activism, including the downfall of the Power Balance company in Australia and the battle against the anti-vaccination movement. The talk will … Read on »
Canberra Skeptics: J’accuse: Aliens and Free Will, the gods of choice for atheists
[ Tuesday, September 13, 2011; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. ] A Canberra Skeptics Lecture Speaker: Dr Charles H. “Charley” Lineweaver Free Admission Date: Tuesday 13th Sept 2011 Time: 6:00 — 7:30 p.m. Place: Optus Lecture Theatre, CSIRO Discovery Science Centre, Clunies Ross Street Acton ACT 2601 Dr Lineweaver will discuss how intelligent aliens and individual free will are (in his view) the thinly veiled god delusions of many skeptics and atheists. Dr Lineweaver … Read on »
Canberra Skeptics Lecture: Seeing Through The Haze – A Clear Perspective On Australia’s Drinking Culture
[ Tuesday, June 21, 2011; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. ] Speaker: Michael Thorn Date: Tuesday, 21st of June 2011 Time: 6:00 — 7:30 p.m. Place: Optus Theatre, CSRIO Discovery Science Centre, Clunies Ross Street Acton ACT 2601 Free Admission Michael Thorn, Chief Executive of the Alcohol Education & Rehabilitation Foundation, will talk about what we do and don’t know about the way we drink in Australia. In this lecture Michael will provide … Read on »
Canberra Skeptics Lecture: Cold on the Trail of Cryptids
[ Wednesday, July 13, 2011; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. ] Speaker: Dustin Welbourne Date: Wednesday 13th of July 2011 Time: 6:00 — 7:30 p.m. Place: Lecture theatre, Innovations Building, Eggleston Rd, ANU Dustin will be speaking on what he calls the ‘crypto continuum’, and the evidence, or lack of evidence for unlikely organisms. His talk will range from unusual animal behaviour on one end of the continuum, — … Read on »
Witch-hunters, Injustice and Superstition: How Science and Skepticism Will Benefit Africa?
[ Thursday, August 18, 2011; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. ] Canberra Skeptics Inc. and the CSIRO Discovery Science Centre Proudly Present: Mr Leo Igwe Date: 18 August 2011 Time: 6 – 7.30pm Location: Optus Theatre, CSIRO Discovery Science Centre, Clunies Ross Street Acton ACT 2601 Free Admission Africans stand to gain a lot by embracing the skeptical outlook; what are those gains? Will Africans ever harvest them? And how do we ensure that Africa … Read on »
Canberra Skeptics Lecture: Australia’s Foreign Aid: Who For? What For?
[ Friday, May 13, 2011; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. ] Time: 6pm Friday 13th May 2011 Place: Innovations Lecture Theatre, Eggleston Road ANU Speaker: Philip Eliason Does aid reflect Australia’s domestic political wishes and worries of the voter or is it a tool in the Government’s outward looking foreign policy kit? Where should aid sit as a diplomatic instrument? This talk will assess foreign aid … Read on »
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