Archive for the ‘The Skeptic Zone’ Category

As I write this, I’m still kind of buzzing. Or maybe it’s the cold I picked up on the flight back home to Perth, three hours away from the Melbourne Convention Centre. Maybe it’s due to watching myself reacting on stage to Professor Richard Dawkins as he’s asked about Mary McKillop  —  am I always that animated? Sheesh… […]

YAS Interviewed on the SkepticZone

By Skelliot

20
Feb. 10

YAS was interviewed on the SkepticZone last night by Kylie Sturgess. You can catch it on episode #71 which should be released on the 26th of February! Tune in and hear us make fools of ourselves.

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 […]

Below is a youtube video of the Skeptic Zone at Dragon*Con! Check it out.

Stop the Australian Vaccination Network

By Daniel Raffaele from the Stop the AVN group

04
Aug. 09

It started after the second “Sunday Night” program dealing with Meryl Dorey and the AVN. I was appalled. How could anyone sit there and say that? How could anyone, in good conscience, sit there and tell a grieving mother whose child had died at the age of four weeks from whooping cough that her daughter’s […]

The University of Western Australia’s Atheist and Agnostic Society are planning to celebrate Open Day by recognizing the contribution of rationalism. UWA happens to be the Alma mater of comedian/​​performer Tim Minchin and Kylie Sturgess of the Skeptic Zone podcast. Since Perth isn’t a big town and we’re so isolated from the rest of the country, […]

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 […]