Meryl Dorey, President of the Australian Vaccination Network, recently published a media release in which she decries the media’s “witchhunt” of the AVN. Recent investigations of the AVN by multiple branches of the New South Wales government, the reports and results of those investigations, various media interviews with Meryl Dorey, quotes from Dorey, and other factual […]
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In this opinion piece, published in The Age on March 9, 2010, Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam asserts that “Nuclear (energy) does not have the answers we need”. There’s quite a bit in this piece that I don’t consider to be well informed, accurate and unbiased — so I thought I would take a bit of a […]
Here’s a beautiful little video I’m sure you’ll all appreciate. This video is based on a small portion of the audiobook version of Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot. This audiobook recording is especially delightful, if you’re fortunate enough to have a copy of it, because it was read by Sagan in his wonderous voice, not […]
For those of you who don’t already know, the beautiful TAM Australia site went live yesterday, with all your information on TAM goodness, registration and the like. The Amazing Meeting is the biggest get-together in the Skeptical universe, and in November 2010, TAM comes to Australia. TAM features the best and most interesting, humorous and controversial […]
This might be pretty controversial, but I’m going to go ahead and say it anyway. I don’t have any problem with people who call themselves “climate change skeptics” — if they really are good skeptics. In fact, based on what I consider a reasonable definition of the term “climate change skeptic”, I’m a climate change skeptic. More on […]
Perhaps I should come up with a different title when I do these; something other than Tales From The Tubes? Any suggestions? Perth Skeptics participating in mass homeopathy overdose — This will be been and gone by the time this gets posted, but I look forward to hearing how it went. There are also corresponding events in […]
A different author today, since Richard seems a little busy these days.
Reproduced from an earlier post I wrote here — with some minor edits. — Luke You’ve all seen the the coal industry — and especially the Rudd government, too — telling us how wonderful CCS “clean coal” technology (i.e. carbon dioxide capture and geosequestration) is, and how it’s proven technology which is already in use, and how it’s going to solve all our […]
