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	<title>Australian Skeptics Inc &#187; 2009</title>
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		<title>Announcing the 2009 Darwin Awards</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Darwin Awards, named after the evolutionary biologist, are given ever year to honour those “do a service to Humanity by removing themselves from the gene pool”.
For the first time ever this year, a woman was one of the runners-up. Rosanne T, aged 50, drove her moped through a police road block and into a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choice announces the 2009 Shonky Awards</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/choice-announces-the-2009-shonky-awards/"><img src="http://www.skeptics.com.au/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Qantas-70x70.jpg" alt="" class="size-thumbnail" height="70" width="70" /></a>Every year, Choice magazine names and shames products that they deem the biggest failures, rip offs or just pure junk in the Shonky Awards.
This year QANTAS and Tiger Airways took honours for “Sky High Surcharges” in honour of their excessive credit card charges, the “Blinding us with Dodgy Science Award” was hotly contested but was [...]]]></description>
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