Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Two well-worth-reading articles by Gia Milinovich (whose work I’ve read and enjoyed long before I knew who this ‘Brian Cox’ fellow was – she inspired me to see about getting a proper photograph done of myself for the website! :p): From The lady vanishes: Invisible Wife Syndrome (The Guardian): When we first met, I was [...]
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I’ve had continuing health problems, a week ahead of me full of planning and coordinating lessons for the fortnight that I’m away… and Dragon*Con itself to plan for, along with all the travel! :/ So, it’s only fair to warn you that I’m going to try to blog while on the road rather than over the [...]
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Breaking news! The complaint to the NSW State Government-funded Health Care Complaints commission (HCCC) has been successfully upheld! Now the AVN has to feature disclaimers on their website. Best of all, a well-regarded national current affairs program is going to investigate the group and show it on TV tonight! It’s only just showing on ABC1′s [...]
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From Dr Pamela Gay, via a Facebook comment: “Dawkins expressed concern that if kids read fantasy it would encourage false belief and advocated that we need sci fiction, pitched a book he is writing over and over, and argued kids probably shouldn’t read fantasy. It was surreal. Search on tam8 on twitter to see others [...]
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Confused by the “vaccination debate?” Are you looking for information you can trust? The Telethon Institute for Child Health Research is hosting a free public information seminar on the latest scientific evidence surrounding childhood vaccination. It will be an opportunity to hear from and ask questions of the State’s leading experts in immunology, infectious diseases [...]
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FURTHER UPDATE – Thanks to the Stop The Australian Vaccination Network Page on Facebook, Dorey outlines what her view of it is and more details are given as to how to thank the Uniting Church for this move! I’d first learned of the efforts of Meryl Dorey to come to Perth, thanks to Dave the [...]
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Thanks to Dr Atlantis – news report from 11Alive.com (image from The UK Telegraph): Disney is offering a full refund to anyone who bought a Baby Einstein DVD between 2004 and 2009 and who is not satisfied. The move comes after a consumer group threatened to sue because it didn’t believe the educational DVDs for [...]
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I would say that Dragon*Con 2009 featured several memorable events for me. Seeing Patrick Stewart crash the photography line for Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner, screaming how he was their biggest fan as he snogged Shatner (Nimoy collapsed under the table with laughter, so he escaped the tonsil-hockey). The security teams went bonkers at that [...]
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