http://www.skeptics.com.au Investigating pseudo-science and the paranormal from a responsible scientific viewpoint Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:26:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/blog/the-wakefield-in-the-room/ http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/blog/the-wakefield-in-the-room/#comments Sun, 12 Dec 2010 06:08:30 +0000 Rachael http://www.skeptics.com.au/?p=3887 http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/blog/the-wakefield-in-the-room/feed/ 0 http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/another-blow-for-wakefield-as-neurotoxicology-paper-withdrawn/ http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/another-blow-for-wakefield-as-neurotoxicology-paper-withdrawn/#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:19:46 +0000 Rachael http://www.skeptics.com.au/?p=2387 http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/another-blow-for-wakefield-as-neurotoxicology-paper-withdrawn/feed/ 0 http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/the-old-one-two-three-hits-the-anti-vaccination-movement/ http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/the-old-one-two-three-hits-the-anti-vaccination-movement/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:14:14 +0000 Rachael http://www.skeptics.com.au/?p=2349 It hasn’t been a good week for anti-vaxers. In fact, it hasn’t been a good year. But the period from the end of January into the first week of February 2010 was particularly troublesome for the luddites of the medical world. In three consecutive blows, a key piece of research for the movement and its main [...]]]> http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/the-old-one-two-three-hits-the-anti-vaccination-movement/feed/ 0 http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/mmr-doctor-unethical-callous-and-dishonest/ http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/mmr-doctor-unethical-callous-and-dishonest/#comments Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:01:46 +0000 Rachael http://www.skeptics.com.au/?p=2312 One of the poster boys of the global anti-vaccination movement, Dr Andrew Wakefield, has been found guilty of being dishonest, irresponsible and misleading, with the possibility of being struck off the medical register. Wakefield was a senior lecturer in the Departments of Medicine and Histopathology at the Royal Free Hospital and a reader in experimental gastroenterology. [...]]]> http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/mmr-doctor-unethical-callous-and-dishonest/feed/ 0 http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/meryl-dorey-and-the-avn-win-2009-bent-spoon/ http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/meryl-dorey-and-the-avn-win-2009-bent-spoon/#comments Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:30:14 +0000 Rachael http://www.skeptics.com.au/?p=1880 The Australian Skeptics Bent Spoon Award was presented last night at the annual Skeptics’ Convention at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. The Bent Spoon is awarded annually for the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudo-scientific piffle and is chosen from a list of public nominations submitted to the Australian [...]]]> http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/meryl-dorey-and-the-avn-win-2009-bent-spoon/feed/ 0 http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/backlash-continues-against-wired-story-on-vaccination/ http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/backlash-continues-against-wired-story-on-vaccination/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:38:07 +0000 Rachael http://www.skeptics.com.au/?p=1689 http://www.skeptics.com.au/latest/news/backlash-continues-against-wired-story-on-vaccination/feed/ 0