Allison Dubois
Richard Saunders reports on how ‘mediums’ turn tragedy into bad taste entertainment. In May – June 2026 American Allison Dubois is once again visiting Australia, this time with her “Cold Case” tour, claiming that she will be “working some cold cases that are close to your hearts“. Twenty years ago she was the latest psychic […]
Attack of the ‘Psychics’!
Richard Saunders reports on how Dark Age thinking is never far from our modern world. According to some people out there, albeit mostly online, any one of us could be the target of a Psychic Attack! Are you worried? Should you be? Before you reach for your breastplate, bow and arrow, let’s first discover just […]
NO Future Seen in Fortune Telling
Major German study in accord with The Great Australian Psychic Prediction Project The GWUP (Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften – Society for the Scientific Investigation of Pseudosciences) in Germany evaluated 2099 annual predictions from fifty-two sources. One quarter were too vague to test, more than half were clearly wrong, and solid bullseyes were rare. […]
From Wuhan to Skepticon
Scientists who have come under a negative and unjustified spotlight will be featured at Skepticon XL, this year’s national convention in Sydney later this month. Among them will be Prof Dominic Dwyer, who was the Australian member of the World Health Organisation’s mission to explore the origins of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China. Dwyer wrote in […]
2022 Bent Spoon – your chance to nominate an anti-hero
Propose a perpetrator of preposterous piffle Nominations are now open for the Australian Skeptics Bent Spoon award, one of the least sought-after credits in the Skeptical world … or any world, for that matter. It has been awarded every year since 1982* and it recognises the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or […]
