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Paleo Pete Evans wins Bent Spoon for second time
The Australian Skeptics’ notorious Bent Spoon award has gone to former celebrity chef Pete Evans, only the first time in Skeptics history that the same person has won the award twice. The annual Skeptics’ awards were announced on October 25 during the 2020 Skepticon convention, which this year was an…
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Obituary: James Randi, the “skeptics’ skeptic”
James Randi, probably the world’s most famous and certainly one of the most influential skeptics, has passed away in the US. He was aged 92. The James Randi Foundation has said that his death was due to “age-related causes”. Randi had suffered from health issues for a number of years,…
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Call for evidence in review of ‘natural’ therapies – deadline Oct 23
The Commonwealth Department of Health is reviewing its exclusions of various alternative ‘natural’ therapies from coverage by private health insurance. It has called for submissions of scientific evidence on the efficacy of the therapies as an update of its previous 2014-15 review. This first review resulted in 16 therapies being…
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