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The Young Australian Skeptics is an organisation and group blog run by a team of young science communicators, professionals and students, focused on the crossroads of science and critical thinking with religion, education, politics, medicine, law and wider society — in essence, scientific skepticism and its cultural impact.

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PZ's Problem: Does Skepticism Makes An Exemption For Religion?

PZ’s Problem: Does Skepticism Makes An Exemption For Religion?

May 5, 2013
by Jack Scanlan
Religion, Skepticism

He’s got one of the most widely-​​​​read blogs of anyone related to the skeptic/​​atheist/​​freethought/​​etc. community, so you’ve probably read it by now, but PZ Myers has “officially” left the scientific skepticism movement. And it appears to be solely about the…

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Heckling using Haeckel - What the pharyngula stage says about vertebrate evolution

Heckling using Haeckel — What the pharyngula stage says about vertebrate evolution

June 23, 2010
by Jack Scanlan
Science, Skepticism

Cross posted from Homologous Legs 19th century biologist Ernst Haeckel’s embryo drawings remain one of evolutionary biology’s most controversial subjects, even more than 130 years after their original publication, least not due to the recent attempts by Discovery Institute fellows Casey…

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Unscientific America and Crackergate - a study in willful ignorance.

Unscientific America and Crackergate — a study in willful ignorance.

July 18, 2009
by Richard Hughes
Politics and Law, Religion, Society

Anybody who reads The Intersection or Pharyngula knows that at the moment there’s a storm brewing in the blogosphere, and it looks set to wipe the credibility of anyone in silly enough to try and batten down the hatches with…

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Let's not attack religion

Let’s not attack religion

July 6, 2009
by James Bannan
Religion

The argument isn’t between science and religion, it’s between reason and faith.

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