[ Thursday, November 17, 2011; 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Thursday 17th of November – Ken McLeod at Peninsula Skeptics Stop The AVN Details here: http://www.meetup.com/Teapot-Mornington-Peninsula/events/26892811/ … Read on »
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Surfcoast Summer Skepticamp (Airey’s Inlet Victoria)
[ Saturday, January 21, 2012; 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] Saturday, January 21, 2012 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM Aireys Inlet, Victoria It’s free, but places are strictly limited: booking is essential. Details and registration: http://summerskepticamp.eventbrite.com/ … Read on »
Vic Skeptics Café (Melbourne)
[ Monday, January 16, 2012; 12:00 am to 8:00 pm. ] Monday 16th of January, 2012 La Notte Restaurant 140 Lygon Street Carlton Tim Mendham: Woo Courses in Australian Tertiary Institutions Presentation 8pm or join us for a meal from 6pm … Read on »
Vic Skeptics Café (Melbourne)
[ Monday, December 19, 2011; 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] SOCIAL NIGHT Monday 19th December From 6pm La Notte Restaurant 140 Lygon Street Carlton All Welcome! … Read on »
Giving The (TGA) Tiger Some Teeth — Vic Skeptics Forum
[ Wednesday, November 16, 2011; 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Vic Skeptics have arranged a forum to investigate this issue, on Wednesday evening 16th November at La Notte Restaurant in Carlton, featuring a distinguished panel: Loretta Marron Dr Ken Harvey Dr Stephen Basser Dr Michael Vagg. Further details, including how to book: http://vicskeptics.wordpress.com/events/giving-the-tiger-some-teeth/ … Read on »
Vic Skeptics Café (Melbourne)
[ Monday, November 21, 2011; 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Monday 21st of November, 2011 La Notte Restaurant, 140 Lygon Street Carlton Nicholas Bruzzese A Historical and Critical Approach to the Bible Is the Bible worth the scrolls it’s written on? Should the Bible be categorized with other books such as Mein Kampf? When studied using a “historical critical approach”, the Bible is revealed to be … Read on »
Cults conference November 2
A conference on “Cults in Australia” will be held at Parliament House in Canberra on November 2, 2011. Featured speakers at the conference will include Senator Nick Xenophon and Prof Patrick McGorry, Australian of the Year 2010 and founding board member of the National Youth Mental Health Foundation. Overseas experts and cult survivors will also be among … 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 »
Ken Harvey — all expenses paid
Australian Skeptics are pleased to announce that some hundreds of members of the skeptical community have banded together to successfully cover all of the legal expenses of Dr Ken Harvey, campaigner against pseudoscientific medical claims. Dr Harvey had been hit with a defamation SLAPP suit by SensaSlim Australia Pty Ltd, the makers of a discredited weight … Read on »
TGA effectiveness questioned
A number of recent decisions by the Therapeutic Goods Association, the body tasked with establishing and maintaining a “national system of controls relating to the quality, safety, efficacy and timely availability of therapeutic goods”, have been criticised as being ineffective or neglectful of the needs of consumers. The ongoing saga of the supposed ‘weight loss’ product SensaSlim … Read on »
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