SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Category
Submission: Inquiry into Drug Law Reform
Inquiry terms of reference The Law Reform, Road and Community Safety Committee of the Victorian Parliament is to inquire into: The...
Meredith Doig
21 March 2017
The danger of being swamped by confident idiots
The Trump phenomenon and the influence of One Nation on local politics highlight how irrational beliefs seem to be...
Hugh Harris
14 February 2017
Scientology Personality Test Postscript – Brisbane
Rationalist board member Hugh Harris continues his search for meaning ... Source: Scientology Personality Test Postscript - Brisbane -...
Hugh Harris
24 January 2017
Scientology’s personality test said I have “no real reason to live”
Unlike psychologists, psychiatrists and other medical practitioners who offer treatments for mental illness, Scientology escapes regulation because it offers...
Hugh Harris
16 January 2017
Malcolm Roberts: defining his nonsense
Angry white men and the movement that's been defined as "Organised Pseudo-legal Commercial Argument" (OPCA). Delusional nonsense, really, but...
Meredith Doig
04 October 2016
Science and Society – Do we have a problem?
RSA Member David Thurley speaks of the growing problem of science denialism in society. He has given this speech...
Meredith Doig
29 June 2015
This is why you will lose your argument
So the Great Barrier Reef has not been listed as endangered by UNESCO. And same-sex marriage is high on...
Peter Ellerton
15 June 2015
How an approach to science helps define the political centre
There was a bit of talk over the last election cycle, expressed in the usual language of political left...
Peter Ellerton
14 November 2014