Early listeners of the podcast would remember we interviewed an independent game developer called Conor O’Kane. Conor made a computer game satirising the Japanese whaling program called Harpooned What made Conor so special, was his ability to bring critical thinking and science awareness to people through the medium of computer games. An effective medium that […]
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How many creationists clichés can you fit into a two minute video? Unfortunately this guy has the answer — 42! Someday I can’t wait to work at the CSIRO. Want to know how to misrepresent agricultural science? Watch this hippie video of fail! Climate change denialists like Andrew Bolt are jizzing their pants over the hacked “ClimateGate” emails. […]
A few days ago I went to the “Mind , body , wallet” festival. Those of you who followed the YAS twitter updates would have known I saw quite a few interesting things, but now I will elaborate on my journey. I went with one of my sceptical minded friends and his partner. All three […]
A response to this article. The government has now given religion free reign to discriminate on your gender, martial status, sexual orientation, divorce, religion and if you have kids or not. Well done.…Thank you! Thank you for dragging all social progress back to the 1920’s where women were marginalised and divorce deemed taboo. Where single parent’s children, […]
Well congratulations to the Cats who won the AFL Grand final today. Yesterday in the Herald Sun newspaper, a few psychics posted that St Kilda was going to win. Oops!
Here at the YAS we don’t give two rat ticklers who your preferred political party is, just so long as you have made an informed decision. This video below is a conservative rally. As the only G20 nation to avoid a recession with a health care system you know that such a system isn’t going to […]
You may have already heard us interview Amanda McKenzie from the Australian Youth Climate Coalition in the latest episode of The Pseudo Scientists, but just a reminder that the Youth Decide 09 voting poll is now open! See below the jump for further analysis about the campaign…
As some of you may be aware conservative Americans don’t like universal health care, thinking that it will hasten the apocalypse and even be used as a weapon. However a recent article from the obviously paranoid Investors Business Daily tried to point out the “flaws” in universal health care by stating; People such as scientist Stephen […]
