Stop blaming open access: what’s wrong with scholarly communication
When: Wednesday 12 June 2014, 6:00-7:30pm Where: Ainslie Football Club Dr Danny Kingsley is an expert in open scholarship and the dissemination of research and ideas. This talk will discuss how the...
View ArticleCanberra Skeptics Science Trivia Night
When: Friday 22 August 2014, 6:00-9:00pm Where: Guiness Room, King O'Malley's, City Walk If you love science and trivia, the Canberra Skeptics have something special in store for you! As part of...
View ArticleSkeptics in the Pub
Canberra SitP are held at King O’Malleys in Civic. You’ll typically find us in The Snug – the room up the stairs behind the main bar. Sunday August 17, 1:00pm Sunday September 21, 1:00pm Sunday October...
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Tilting at Windmills: A look at the Myths of Australia’s First World War History
Bully Beef and Balderdash: Some Myths of the AIF Examined and Debunked, published in 2012, casts a sceptical eye over a number of supposedly "historical facts" connected with the story of the First...
View ArticleCanberra Skeptics Social Evening and AGM
When: Wednesday 22 October, 6:30-9:00pm Where: Canberra Bridge Club, Duff Place, Deakin We hope to conduct business expeditiously so that we can partake of pizza and salad and dessert washed down with...
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The Making of “The Vaccination Chronicles” and Are Ghosts Scared of Skeptics?
In this double-barreled talk, Richard Saunders will give an overview of the making of his new documentary The Vaccination Chronicles. How did he go about writing, filming and editing and what role is...
View ArticleApril 13: Sex, Lies and Nectar: Evolutionary Biology as Written by Flowers
Free Admission In the eyes of evolution, finding a suitable mate for reproduction is one of the most critical stages in any organism’s life. The great majority of flowering plants have outsourced this...
View ArticleMay 15: Unskepticism in Education
Free Admission It is universally acknowledged that education is important, but there are so many trends, fashions and concepts in education, many of which are mutually exclusive or even contradictory,...
View ArticleJune 15: When Can Ignorance Be Good For You?
Free Admission Ignorance is almost always is viewed negatively, and this is understandable. We generally prefer knowing to not knowing. However, a completely negative view of unknowns can blind us to...
View ArticleJuly 13: Not just dollars – the hidden raison d’etre of the art forger
Art forgery is as old as time itself. On the surface, it would seem most fakers and forgers are in the game for the financial rewards it promises to bring, but if one scratches the surface, far deeper...
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