Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
TAMOz, TAM Australia, whatever you want to call it – have an hour of the Token Skeptic podcast on what it’s like to be me in Sydney, losing my delusions about what Australian Skeptics are and what it could be. The interviews include: Nicholas and Alex Southhall (the young man on the SGU Science/Fiction) Warren [...]
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A little delayed – but the notes I took from this session: The presenters were: Moderator Tim Mendham, Dr Rob Morrison, Dr Paul Willis and Steve Cannane. Morrison: There’s only a limited number of specialist scientist journalists employed – and like the rest of the population, there are people who aren’t particularly seeing accurately what [...]
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I recently learned that I’m one of the few active-online skeptics (and honestly, I wonder even if I’m that much of a ‘skeptic’ anymore) – who can be named as having done primary research on assessing belief in the paranormal. Big thanks to Swoopy, Derek and Desiree for giving me a lovely shout-out on an [...]
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Across the weekend of the 5th-6th February, 2011, activism to raise awareness of homeopathy and its ramifications will happen on a global scale. Here’s where Australia will play a part – Ten23 In Australia – the official page at the Token Skeptic website. Just head to http://tokenskeptic.org/ten23 Contact me via tokenskeptic @gmail if your Australian [...]
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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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This is with very big thanks to Espilon Clue, who features the majority of the speech. There are some arguments he makes at the end, and Dr Phil Plait responds in the comments – I hope Dr Plait includes in the promised ‘blog-follow-up’ he has planned, the post by Tribal Scientist. You can see his [...]
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Just a quick announcement that I’m going to be: 1) Upgrading the blog-site and 2) Working on studies for the rest of the week, so expect only a few updates. School starts for me next week too! Which makes it a little odd that I then go – Vote For Me for the Big Blog [...]
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