Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
WAAHHH It’s on The Guardian website as a guest post! Absolutely thrilled to see the company I’m keeping – Leslie Cannold also has an article online! ‘Abortion is about balancing rights – religious medics don’t get the final say’. Do check it out! Many, many thanks to Martin Robbins and to Warren Bonett who made [...]
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I’m going to be podcasting on this matter later, thanks to two very kind people who have responded to my request, and I’ll see if I can transcribe it. But I just want to post a few links in response to PZ Myer’s ‘Should skeptic organizations be atheist organizations?’ which is in regards to Dr [...]
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UPDATE – This article was cross-posted at the Young Australian Skeptics website and Dr Mark Henn is responding to comments there too, if you’d like to check that out! It has also been printed in Skeptical Briefs – the newsletter for the Skeptical Inquirer. For a while now, I’ve become quite uncomfortable about an assumption [...]
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I got a notice today from the The Australian Science Teachers’ Association, on an issue I’d known about for a while – the National Science Curriculum Framing Paper. I thought I may as well broadcast the links that will direct what will be going on and urge people to have a say – and hope [...]
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Now, I don’t have time to blog on this extensively, but you can certainly check out my series of three posts (so far!) on ‘Women and Superstitions‘ where I’ve touched upon these issues before. In fact, go to my Essays pages for quite a bit on social influences. If you’re not familiar with the work [...]
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Okay, right, it’s the weekend — and I’m blogging. Bleah. Never mind, I’ve got a lot of work on the horizon and I’ll zip off and complete it instead of writing much more on all of this. But I have to pop up some links and tidy up my blogroll first! First — an mp3 [...]
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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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Three reviews in one! Enough to make you break out in unholy ditty to the glory of texts that question the power of religion… I first learned of the Hillsong Church via two sources: one was Peter Bowditch’s Millenium Project site and an interview with Tanya Levin by Andrew Denton on Enough Rope – which [...]
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