Australia
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:
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

