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Flying Spaghetti Monster mixer with live music from Shelley Segal

Our first social event for the year will be held on the very first evening of semester, Monday March 4. Save the date now! Join us after 6.30pm at The Clyde Hotel, which is a short walk from the university. … Continue reading

Canberra Skeptics Lecture: A Developing Role for Australia in Space Debris Characterisation and Management

Speaker: Brett Biddington

Date: Saturday, 13 April 2013

Time: 1:30 – 3:00pm

Location: Lecture Theatre, CSIRO Discovery, Clunies Ross Street, Acton, ACT

Free Admission

Space debris in Low Earth Orbits (LEO) especially is of concern to all nations on Earth – those that are space faring and the rest, including Australia, that are space dependent.  Before m

Measles Madness

A book promoting measles as a child-friendly disease has been soundly criticised around the world, in both mainstream and social media, as a “misleading” danger to children and their parents.

Originally self-published a year ago by Queensland-based anti-vaccination campaigner Stephanie Messenger, Melanie’s Marvellous Measles was republished in J

Calling all diviners

Australian Skeptics are again organising a major test of water divining, repeating an exercise last undertaken 11 years ago at the Mighty Mitta Muster in Mitta Mitta, northern Victoria.

Organised by the Borderline Skeptics with input from Australian Skeptics Inc and the Victorian Skeptics, diviners putting themselves up for the test will, depending

Canberra Skeptics Lecture: Toleration and Blasphemy – and Australia Today

Date:

Sunday, February 17, 2013 — 13:30 to 15:00

Location:

Lecture Theatre, CSIRO Discovery Centre

Clunies Ross St

Acton, ACT

Australia

Free Admission

Just why is it that, in a ‘multicultural’ society, issues about toleration – and what this involves – seem even more contention than they did in the past? How is it that proponents of religious freedom may