Archive for the ‘The Skeptic Zone’ Category

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 […]

Well, I just returned from hosting the YAS/​​Skepticzone event, and needless to say, it was a complete success! We had a massive turn out of about 150  —  200 people. Everyone enjoyed themselves and had a great time listening to the talks and “nomming” (as I find Richard Saunders likes to say often) all the fantastic food […]

Sydney Talks to Melbourne  —  A Night of Skepticism and Music! Details: 4:30  –  6:30pm Saturday 30th May Theater A, Elizabeth Murdoch University of Melbourne, Parkville Help spread the word by inviting friends on Facebook.