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Communicating skepticism – pass or fail?

Speaker: Tim Mendham

Date: Saturday, 16 March 2013

Time: 1:30 – 3:00pm

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

Free Admission

The ways that Skeptics have communicated their message has changed dramatically in the 30+ year period that Australian Skeptics has been around.

We will examine the history of skeptical

Canberra Skeptics Lecture: Communicating skepticism – pass or fail?

Speaker: Tim Mendham

Date: Saturday, 16 March 2013

Time: 1:30 – 3:00pm

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

Free Admission

The ways that Skeptics have communicated their message has changed dramatically in the 30+ year period that Australian Skeptics has been around.

We will examine the history of skeptical

Canberra Skeptics — Free Screening of “Here Be Dragons — A Guide to Critical Thinking”

“The Skeptic” Magazine

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AVN told to change “unacceptable” name

The NSW Department of Fair Trading has ordered the Australian Vaccination Network to change its name because the title is “against the public interest”

In a December 12 letter to AVN public officer Meryl Dorey, Fair Trading commissioner Rod Stowe adds that the name is “undesirable and therefore unacceptable pursuant to section 18(1) f of the [

AVN — new name, new president

Meryl Dorey, the founder and long-term president of the Australian [anti]Vaccination Network, has announced that she has relinquished her position as president of the organisation, effective January 1. Her replacement is Queensland-based AVN board member, Greg Beattie.

Beattie, whom the AVN describes as a “long-time vaccine researcher”, is the aut