Category Archives: Skeptics

Evil is live backwards

February 28, 2007 – 2:18 am

From time to time, people suggest to me that, in my line of work, I must see a fair few evil people. Not common or garden variety nasty, or plain crooked, but actively evil. The human equivalent of Old Nick, the sort who - if they went up in smoke - would leave a whiff [...]

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The Darwin Awards

January 20, 2007 – 10:13 pm

Well, it was only a matter of time. Spam advertising this book lobbed into the Australian Skeptics in-tray recently. I’d not known that Muslim and Christian creationists - particularly in Turkey - were cooperating in producing similar literature. Leading US Skeptic Dr Ken Miller points out that Muslim creationists recycle the same old US [...]

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The God Delusion

December 12, 2006 – 11:03 am

Richard Dawkins, the great Oxford zoologist and science writer, has been known to excite considerable antipathy in various quarters. This is not so much for his science writing, as for his public statements about religion and alternative medicine. In this he is a true skeptic: skeptics tend to dislike anything that makes unfalsifiable claims.
In The [...]

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At last, a really good reason to bash the ABC!

November 29, 2006 – 8:35 pm

As those of you familiar with my writing history would know, I’ve had a fair bit to do with the Australian Skeptics. And, as someone with a strong but amateur interest in science, I’m reasonably cheesed off that the ABC is pulling this stunt:
FANS of ABC television’s science program Catalyst may be in for a
surprise [...]

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