Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
A little while back I read the following by Chris Mooney, a post about what he considered to be a good example of science communication. My friend Michael McRae responded with his own post – Encouraging Scientists To Speak For Science. I’m intrigued by these kinds of discussions, as over the past year I have [...]
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Today I headed into Curtin University, after getting rather lost in the maze of building-works that is happening around the science and technology sector of the campus (getting lost – not so bad. Discovering that a former student of mine is attending same workshop and gleefully shouts the teacher-nickname I was known for four years [...]
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Please promote and support this article – “No, I Don’t Believe In God” by Alom Shaha. I consider it a great honor that I had Alom Shaha speak to me as a science communicator, for an early podcast interview I did: episode #22 of the Skeptic Zone with Alom Shaha. What I knew of him [...]
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I started writing this in response to a comment on one of the posts, and then realised that perhaps I should turn it into a fully-fledged blog entry. I’d like to point out that I don’t intend to keep writing about the convention for much longer, but this is an aspect that does interest me [...]
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Twitter-talk seems to have moved people quickly in regards to this story! Prof Brian Cox retweets about a ‘save Science blizzard‘ in response to an article that claimed that the Large Hadron Collider was likely to have UK support removed. SundayTime online reported – and a rebuttal was written – Science and Technology Facilities Council: [...]
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Skepticality – Episode 100. Now out. Head over. Yes, I’m busy listening. Yes, you should be reading at the same time as you listen. Head on over to Clashing Culture! Particular faves this round include: The Fat One in The Middle talks about ‘Spanking, but not the good kind’ (Caution, some may not want their [...]
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Now, this is something I thought existed in a vague sense with the efforts of the Biotechnology Australia group, along with the availability of the CSIRO for consultation and other informal groups like the Australian Skeptics in this country… but Biotechnology Australia closed down this year and I know that checking science accuracy in the [...]
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