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Homeopathy Minus! — up and down
UPDATE: Homeopathy Plus! Pty Ltd, the organisation run by noted homeopath and alt med spruiker Fran Sheffield, has apparently been playing cat and mouse with a statement on its website regarding whooping cough vaccination which the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has ordered be removed. Within 24 hours of the initial order and removal of the relevant page, … Read on »
Canberra Skeptics Lecture: Nuclear Issues in Australia and Beyond; One Perspective
[ Monday, May 14, 2012; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. ] Date: Monday, 14 May 2012 Time: 6.00 – 7.30pm Venue: Lecture Theatre, CSIRO Discovery Centre, Clunies Ross Street, Acton, ACT 2601 Speaker: Professor Dr George Dracoulis, FAA Members Free/Non-Members Gold Coin Donation Nuclear issues in Australia have had a conflicted history. We are a country with significant uranium resources but no nuclear power. This talk will cover selected aspects of uranium production, … Read on »
Anti-vaccination off the air(line)
In what can be seen as a victory for common sense, American Airlines has reversed a decision to play an interview with anti-vaccine campaigner Meryl Dorey on its in-flight entertainment service. In a Twitter message, the airline said that “This interview has not been submitted to AA yet. We have decided not to air this audio. … Read on »
FSM Supported by Australian Skeptics
UPDATE : 22 April 2012 The founders of Friends of Science in Medicine Prof John Dwyer AO, Prof Alastair H MacLennan AO, Prof Marcello Costa, Loretta Marron Prof Rob Morrison OAM were recently interviewed by Eran Segev on ‘The Skeptic Zone Podcast’. The friends discuss their motivations for setting up the group and their experiences in promoting science based medicine and also their concerns with … Read on »
2012 National Convention — Melbourne
[ Friday, November 30, 2012 to Sunday, December 2, 2012. ] Australian Skeptics’ 2012 National Convention will be held in Melbourne from November 30 — December 2. Speakers will include James Randi, Rebecca Watson, DJ Grothe, Ken Harvey, Richard Saunders and Rachael Dunlop — more to be announced. Oranised by the Victorian Skeptics, the convention is made up of an evening meet-and-greet cocktail event (Nov 30), followed by … Read on »
Canberra Skeptics Lecture: The Atlas of Living Australia: an online tool for discovering Australia’s biodiversity
[ Tuesday, April 17, 2012; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. ] Speaker: John La Salle, Director Atlas of Living Australia Date: 17 April 2012 Time: 6.00 – 7.30pm Venue: Optus Lecture Theatre, CSIRO Discovery Centre, Clunies Ross Street, Acton, ACT 2601 Members Free/Non-Members Gold Coin Donation The Atlas of Living Australia is a national initiative to deliver web-based information about Australian plants, animals, fungi and microorganisms. Existing information about Australian species is distributed … Read on »
Open Letter to Rebel Sport and NRG
UPDATE : 3 April 2012 Despite the claims of “…a breakthrough in negative Ion technology…” and such like, the NRG Titanium Ion Bands seem at last to have found their true home. At one time these bands cost $49.99 each, now they can be yours for just $2.00 at a Sydney’s ‘Reverse Garbage’ trash and treasure store. Australian Skeptics … Read on »
Ken Harvey, the Consumer Champion
Choice (The Australian Consumers Association) has named Dr Ken Harvey as its Consumer Champion for 2012. The organisation says that “Ken really put himself on the line when he went up against weight loss company SensaSlim last year. When he lodged a complaint about their ads with the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), SensaSlim threatened to sue him … Read on »
Cold fusion technical article
For those wishing to find out more of the Skeptics’ investigation of Andrea Rossi’s ECAT fusion technology, a technical paper from The Skeptic magazine is available here. … Read on »
Sydney dinner — Prof John Dwyer & FSM
[ Saturday, March 31, 2012; 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] PLUS your chance to win free tickets to the Richard Dawkins/ Lawrence Krauss lecture in Sydney Professor John Dwyer, AO, is Emeritus Professor of Medicine at UNSW, founder of the Australian Health Care Reform Alliance, and clinical consultant to the NSW Government’s Inter-Agency Committee on Health Care Fraud. He also has the distinction of having a … Read on »
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