Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall. Topics covered: Study shows rats help pals escape Capturing CO2 Too Costly to Combat Climate Change Doctors take aim at chiropractors This is the dawning of the new Age of Superstition LHC: Higgs boson ‘may have been glimpsed’ 16,000 Eyes: The Vision of a Cambrian Superpredator [...]
SoT Special: Why We’ve Stopped Trusting Science, by Leslie Cannold
July 30, 2011 By 1 Comment
On Thursday Dr. Leslie Cannold – author, ethicist, commentator and award-winning columnist – spoke to a packed audience at Embiggen Books. She spoke about the various social and economic forces undermining trust in science, and what can be done to restore that trust. Embiggen Books is Melbourne’s newest bookshop, specialising in scientific and skeptical books. [...]
SoT Special: Podblack’s Book Club
May 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
An event organised by the Melbourne Skeptics and the Melbourne Eastern Hills Skeptics saw a science, religion and philosophy teacher and a science-oriented bookseller discussing their favourite books. Kylie Sturgess is an award-winning blogger and fellow podcaster, a Philosophy and Religious Education teacher and writer for a number of Skeptic publications. In 2010 she co-authored [...]
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