Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Here it is in the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper – Copyright breaches land group in trouble: An anti-vaccination group is under fire for allegedly breaching copyright laws by selling newspaper and medical journal articles online without permission from the authors. The Australian Vaccination Network, which was the subject of a public warning issued by the [...]
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Nearly forgot to mention – Stop Meryl Dorey – a new site at stopmeryldorey.com! This website was launched following the release of the HCCC’s findings in an attempt to combat the dangerous misinformation and conspiracy theories being spread by the Meryl Dorey and the AVN. Stop Meryl Dorey is committed to providing honest and evidence [...]
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I am holding a legally-purchased copy of Cosmos Magazine. Why? This magazine features an informative and detailed article about vaccination and I strongly urge people to support this publication – rather than illegally scan it and feature it on a website, as the Australian Vaccination Network has done on their site. The NSW Health Care [...]
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Head to the Australian Skeptics website for a news item on the event! I would like to think that there’s several factors that contributed to the sparse attendance of Meryl Dorey and Judy Wilyman’s second lecture at the State Library of Western Australia (called the Alexander Library) in central Perth on Tuesday, 20th July. There [...]
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New episodes out for the Token Skeptic podcast! The first is for all of those keen on psychogy of deception, illusion and how we can be fooled – Token Skeptic #29 features an interview with Prof Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, talking about their new book ‘The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Decieve [...]
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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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I’m in the main hall of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research (TICHR), a large indoor venue that is part of an ongoing lecture series. Somewhere behind me in the audience is at least one other member of the Perth Skeptics (hello Grendels!). There is a LOT of information being given tonight, and these [...]
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