Armidale’s first ever Skeptics In The Pub event will be held on Wednesday 24 April in the downstairs section of the Wicklow Hotel, corner Marsh and Dumaresq Streets. Future topics for presentations will range broadly across subjects such as health, medicine, science, technology, history, politics, the social sciences and the
The March 2024 issue of The Skeptic has been published, with a special feature on how to cope with science: teaching students skills as much as facts; the positives and negatives of media coverage and how culpable the media are in spreading sometimes dangerous pseudoscience; and understanding that famous Razor.
We’re happy to announce that this year’s Australian Skeptics Annual National Convention – Skepticon 2024 – will be held at the Guthrie Theatre in the University of Technology, Sydney, from November 23-24. This is our 40th consecutive convention; we haven’t missed a year since 1985, which we feel is quite
Ross Coulthart, who has won five Walkley awards (including the top Gold Walkley) during his career as a journalist, can now add another prize to the list – the Australian Skeptics Bent Spoon award. The Spoon is given annually to the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of pseudoscientific or
Skepticon 2023 is the premier convention for critical thinking, skepticism, and science communication in Australia. At this event, rational thinkers, scientists, and experts gather to explore issues facing skepticism in society today. With the aim of equipping attendees with the tools needed to think critically and evaluate evidence, Skepticon 2023
Nominations for the 2023 Bent Spoon award are now open. The Spoon is awarded annually to the “perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudoscientific piffle”. Past winners of this most unwanted award have included the Australian Vaccination Network, the ABC, SBS, Wollongong University, RMIT, and Paleo Pete
Apparently, all of them, according to their own descriptions. Following a recent flurry of self-promotion among the psychic community, Australian Skeptics decided to look at a number of the key players (according to themselves) and see how they rate. And the result is shocking – they’re all the best! We
UPDATE: NDIS Minister Bill Shorten has told the media that only one case of psychic services being offered under the NDIS system could be found, and that that one case actually dated from the period of the previous government’s time in power. In response to a question at the National
The 2022 Bent Spoon award – the least coveted prize in the skeptical world – has gone to Queensland fake-medical doctor Maria Carmela Pau for distributing COVID-related exemptions and reportedly pocketing about $120,000 for issuing 1200 useless certificates. Pau pleaded guilty in Southport Magistrates Court in July to pretending to
Tickets for the dinner at the 2022 Annual Australian Skeptics National Convention – Skepticon – are now available. The $85-per-person price covers a 3-course meal, with bar tab and guest speaker and, of course, the opportunity to meet and mingle with real-live non-Zoomed Skeptics. The dinner will be on the
