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Found a little late (dated August) but it looks like James Allan is practically inspired by Tim Minchin’s ‘Storm’ with this one! He’s talking on this very topic at the forthcoming Australian Skeptics conference – “Why Skeptics are Dinner Party Nightmares”. Here’s his article in the Australian newspaper: HOW many readers have gone to dinner [...]
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From The Age: Early in her tertiary education Elizabeth Blackburn was asked by a family friend: ”What’s a nice girl like you doing studying science?” Last night, the now Dr Blackburn had the last laugh when she became the first Australian woman to win a Nobel prize. Melbourne-educated Dr Blackburn, 60, was awarded the Nobel [...]
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Now being passed around on Twitter – new news about the AVN and Meryl Dorey being challenged for their posing as “health service providers” who “provid(e) health education services to the public” for the purposes of the Health Care Complaints Act 1993 (NSW). The document, which can be found as a pdf – ‘Complaint to [...]
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Australian news just seems to be full of wacky things that happen to animals. Since reporting about the doped wallabies in Tasmania who create crop circles – I’ve discovered another issue involving another Aussie iconic figure – the footballer. First for ten points, dear readers? What are Calf’s Blood Injections? Is it something to do [...]
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Many, many thanks to Richard Saunders of the Skeptic Zone podcast and the Young Australian Skeptics for the following! Get a pdf here and print it out, pass it on and suggest for podcasts and other blog sites. “With the growing world-wide threat of Swine Flu (or the N5H1 virus) the public is alerted to [...]
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Left Brain Right Brain Blog / Autism Blog, a site I first subscribed to when it featured on the blog carnival Encephalon, has picked up on the research inadequacies of Jim Carrey (an occasional film star, more often featured fodder in desperate C-grade comedies where the only discernible plot-element is the range of his flexible [...]
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Just a quick addition to this post – thanks to www.stopjenny.com for the tip! Alison Singer, the woman who resigned from her position at Autism Speaks because of their pandering to the anti-vaccine crowd, has now launched a new organization, the Autism Science Foundation. Here’s the opening of their press release: April 18, 2009 — [...]
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