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 […]
The Skeptic latest issue – science pretenders
The June issue of The Skeptic magazine includes a special feature on “science pretenders” – proponents of pseudoscience riding on the coattails of genuine science. Articles in the feature include discussions on how to differentiate science from pseudoscience; the misuse of scientific concepts and terms, particularly the much-abused “quantum”; the story behind the recent documentary […]
