Young Australian Skeptics

We’ve got a wonderful opportunity — and we need your help, skeptic, atheist, humanist and agnostic listeners!

Earlier this year, Richard and Rachael presented at the University of Melbourne, thanks to the generous patronage of the Young Australian Skeptics and their first-​​class podcast ‘The Pseudo Scientists’.

Now we’d like to go across country to help bring skepticism to a town that can really benefit from a skeptical-​​boost!

The University of Western Australia is holding an Open Day in early August (August 9^th) and the plan is to have a presentation on the 8^th August — thanks to the efforts of the Atheists and Agnostics Society of UWA.

A repeat performance of the highly-​​successful Richard Saunders’ talk ‘Skepticism 101′ and the dedicated Dr Rachael Dunlop with ‘Dr Rachie Reports: Adventures of a Scientist in an Alternative Medicine World’ is on the cards — along with a possible student-​​led activity beforehand, to help raise the profile of the Atheist and Agnostic Society on campus. It’ll be fun, it’ll be informative and it’ll be a don’t-miss show!

In addition, we’re hoping to make an appearance at the Perth Atheists’ regular pub-​​event, with an impromptu ‘Think Tank’ session. We’re hoping that can be on the Sunday, 9^th August for a late lunch. In conjunction with the WA Humanist Society, it’ll be a great opportunity for everyone to get to know each other and be a part of the show!

That’s where we need donations to help make this happen!

• First — flights over! From Sydney to Perth (and back, as much as we’d love to keep them here!)
• There’s the venue hire at UWA — with about $100 to get space at UWA, for not only the Skeptic Zone presentation but to showcase the Atheist and Agnostic society who will present too.

We’re hoping to keep the door-​​fees for the UWA event low (as a student myself, I can relate!) by gold-​​coin donation at the door (every bit helps though) — so please help by pledging at Paypal:

Australian Dollars donation and US Dollars donation — at the Skeptic Zone Podcast site

If you’re in Sydney, I know that there’s also an opportunity to chip in via the The Sydney Sceptics Meetup Group — and we’ll keep people tuned in for other events at UWA and online that will help raise funds for this event.

Please, send in ideas, pop the dates in your calendar — and donate to make it happen!

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