In the 38 years of the Australian Skeptics’ Bent Spoon Award, issued to the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudoscientific piffle, we have never had the need to award this dishonour to the same person twice. However, with the current COVID-19 situation impacting on the whole…

In a break with a decades-long tradition, members of Australian Skeptics will not be attending this weekend’s Mind Body Spirit exhibition in Sydney’s Darling Harbour due to the dangers of the spread of COVID-19 and the ignorant attitudes of some exhibitors. Attending would put our members at risk. Many of…

The Sydney Skeptics dinners are making a welcome return with a bang on February 29, featuring a high profile speaker on the issue of the century. Dr Michael Mann is an American climatologist and geophysicist, currently director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, who has contributed…

Psychics are big business – in the US, the ‘industry’ is valued at more than US$2 billion a year. Considering that one US phone psychic company in the US was closed having made a billion in a few years, and had to ‘forgive’ another $500 million in debt, indicates that…

The Australian Skeptics notorious Bent Spoon award has gone to SBS-TV’s “Medicine or Myth”, a program where science takes second place to entertainment. The Bent Spoon, one of the least sought-after awards of the year, is given to the proponent of the most preposterous piece of pseudoscientific or paranormal piffle…

Teaching the basics of skepticism can be grounded in everyday decision making

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$2000 prize for critical thinking in the media