President of the Victorian Skeptics, Terry Kelly, was joined by Elliot Birch and Jason Ball from the Young Australian Skeptics on ABC1’s Insiders program this morning. We discussed Tony Abbot’s climate change plan, skepticism and politicians in general. Check us out.
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This is a post I recently wrote for my miniblog, but the reaction it received (not necessarily just through blog comments) has lead me to put it up on the main blog — and here on the Young Australian Skeptics website — where it’s most visible. It deals with something that might be considered a bit controversial in the […]
We probably have all encountered scientifically ignorant people, for some people knowing the complexities of the universe is simply not interesting. This ignorance is generally spawned within the Medias interpretation of science and scientists; however a scientist known as Len Fisher is doing something about this by communicating science to the general community. Earlier in […]
We’ve all heard it; apparently all Australians are racist, all Americans are gun nuts, and all Iraqis are Terrorists – all of which are obviously false. It is easy to see how it happens, take the recent Melbourne murder of an Indian student – the situation is quickly become hyped up and blown out of proportion. This overstatement of […]
This year has been an excellent one for new books — some of my favorites published this year include:
As many will have seen, about a year ago, Channel 4 in the UK screened a very disturbing documentary about an epidemic in Nigeria of children being branded as witches. Here’s the original documentary. Basically, a spike in evangelical and charismatic Christianity in Nigeria, coupled with a film released by Helen Ukpabio, has resulted in a […]
Last week I spoke with Catherine Deveny on 774 ABC Melbourne. We discussed the rise of atheism, the Global Atheist Convention, and the recent DDoS attacks against the AFA’s website.
Click here to listen.
Also, just the other day I spoke with Sue Leigh on 885 3CR Community Radio about Greg Craven’s monstrosity of an opinion piece, The Pseudo […]
Do you remember this TV spot which I previously posted from the church of Scientology?
Do you think that the Jesus: All About Life campaign possibly hired the same advertisement agency?
It’s now been mentioned by the ever-popular blog Pharyngula — so let’s see if there’s fans and followers of the Young Australian Skeptics who are going to go!
Join the likes of Richard Dawkins, PZ Myers, Catherine Deveny, Phillip Adams, Robyn Williams and even me, Kylie Sturgess, at the 2010 Global Atheist Convention, The Rise of Atheism conference […]
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