Canberra Skeptics Incorporated
This Web page provides information about the Canberra Skeptics, including notices of forthcoming events and activities. The association holds regular informal meetings, usually on the 13th of each month, at various locations; see below for details. |
Planned events and activitiesCanberra Skeptics' programme of planned activities is outlined below. Please note that details may be changed.Next event
Annual General Meeting
On Friday, 22 October 2010 Details to be announced Free admission
Future eventsPast eventsDetails of some previous Canberra Skeptics events and activities can be found here.A Powerpoint file (2 MB) of Professor Thomas Pogge's talk of 15 July 2009, World poverty: explanations and proposed solutions, is available here. A podcast of Professor Hugh White's talk of 13 March 2009, Clear thinking about national security: why is it so hard?, is available here. A PDF file (2 MB) of the slides from Professor Peter Collignon's talk of 15 December 2008, Drinking our own waste: change we can believe in?, is available here. |
About Canberra SkepticsCanberra Skeptics Incorporated is a non-profit association incorporated in the Australian Capital Territory for the purpose of promoting critical thinking. While it is a branch of the Australian Skeptics, the two organisations are independent. For more details about the Australian Skeptics, visit their Website.More details of the objectives of Canberra Skeptics are listed here. Copies of the winning entries in the Cartoon Competition run as part of the Young Skeptics programme at the Annual Convention can be found here. SubscriptionsMembership fees for Canberra Skeptics are currently $8 per year, or $5 per year for members with limited incomes, payable by 30 June each year. For new members there is also a one-off joining fee of $2.Financial members are entitled either to free admission, or to admission at a members' discount rate, to all Canberra Skeptics functions where fees are charged. A PDF copy of our pamphlet Do you believe everything you are told? can be downloaded from here (75 kB). It has an application form for joining Canberra Skeptics. While anyone interested in critical thinking, member or not, is welcome to attend our informal monthly get-togethers, non-members will, of course, not be entitled to vote at any formal meetings where official business of Canberra Skeptics is to be conducted. Nor are they eligible to receive members' discounts on admission to any of its functions. Membership of Canberra Skeptics does not include a subscription to the Australian Skeptics' magazine, the Skeptic, and nor does subscription to that magazine include membership of Canberra Skeptics. E-mail mailing listCanberra Skeptics' secretary maintains a mailing list of people interested in receiving e-mail notices about our activities. It is not necessary to be a member to have your e-mail address on this list. If you would like to be included, please let us know. (Also please let us know if you change your e-mail address!)Members without access to e-mail will receive notices of all Canberra Skeptics activities by post. |
CommitteeThe Canberra Skeptics committee usually meets once a month. To obtain further information about, and a mug shot of, any committee member, click on his or her name below.
Kevin Davies -- External Relations Officer |
ContactsThe postal address of Canberra Skeptics is:
Canberra Skeptics Inc and our e-mail address is: |
Objectives of Canberra Skeptics Inc
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Publications
ArgosThe following back issues of the Canberra Skeptics newsletter Argos, written by a past president, Pete Griffith, are available:
No. 1: January 2003 PamphletsOver the years Canberra Skeptics members have written many pamphlets on topics related to its aims and objects. Some of the more recent ones are available for downloading. These are designed to be printed double-sided, in landscape mode on A4 paper. When so printed, the paper can be folded into a compact triple-leaf pamphlet.Do you believe everything you are told? ( PDF (75 kB) ) Holocaust Revisionism by Peter Barrett ( MS Word (58 kB), PDF (30 kB) ) Homoeopathy by Pete Griffith ( MS Word (67 kB) ) Intelligent Design by David Wilson ( PDF (29 kB) ) Weight Loss Information by Vicki Moss ( MS Word (98 kB), PDF (55 kB) )
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