Australian skeptic

I Has Parapsychology Certificate!

by podblack on January 29, 2009

Neener! I did an online unit! I’m going to get this framed! That is my Certificate of Completion for the Introduction to Parapsychology Course, run by the Koestler Parapsychology Unit at the University of Edinburgh! This new short course (commenced September 2008) is taught entirely online and is open to anyone regardless of geographical location. [...]

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Little Kitten – Download ‘Skeptics On Skeptical Thinking’

by podblack on September 27, 2008

Skeptics on skeptical thinking - Saturday 1pm – repeated Monday 1pm Presented by Natasha Mitchell. Listen Now – 27092008 Download Audio – 27092008 Nobody likes being told their most cherished beliefs are based on myth and misconception. But the global skeptics movement does just that. In the classroom and beyond, All in the Mind excavates the [...]

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The Skepbitch Does Salt Lake And Sylvia Browne

by podblack on May 4, 2008

Look, there’s no legitimate way that I can praise Dr Karen ‘Skepbitch’ Stollznow’s checking out Sylvia Browne in Utah – without launching into song: The Atheist Tabernacle Choir — by Spitting Image So, enjoy the tune as you check out her blog entry over at her site — Skepbitch! “Eat, drink, be merry — for [...]

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Skepticism And Scholarship – Dr Mark Henn

by podblack on February 22, 2008

Back into my series of interviews for this week! My next blog interview is with a man who is at the coalface of educating and researching beliefs in weird things. Dr Mark Henn is from the University of New Hampshire’s Psychology Department, which contains a grad program that values teaching enough to actually spend time [...]

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Investigating Skepticism – Dr Karen Stollznow

by podblack on February 19, 2008

Welcome again to my series of interviews for this week! I’m very proud to profile Dr Karen Stollznow, the Associate Editor of the Australian Skeptic. Karen has spent a decade investigating and writing about the paranormal and pseudoscientific, but she still hasn?t seen a ghost. Karen is a researcher for the Script Encoding Initiative through [...]

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The Skepbitch!!!

by podblack on January 10, 2008

… sorry, I’m in love. Kind of. Arghh… big girly wirly crush. Ick. Oh shut up. You’ll be feeling exactly the same way once you check out this brand new blog, Skepbitch! Skepbitch?Cunning Linguist?Intrepid Skeptic?Whore Who Stole My Husband, whatever name you know me by, I?m Dr Karen Stollznow, Academic, Author and Associate Editor of [...]

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Losing It

by podblack on December 27, 2007

So, friend zipped me an email – ‘did you know about LA Weight Loss?’ He’s writing about LA Weight Loss – a former weight loss company here in Australia whose US parent uses celebrities to help promote the brand. It apparently closed in May of this year – as reported via the Office of Fair [...]

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