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April 26, 2025 66 mins
0:00:00
Introduction
Richard Saunders

00:05:26
A Challenge to So-Called Psychics

A review of the challenge to psychics, and people claiming other paranormal powers, put out by Australian Skeptics in 1984. How does this compare to 2025?

https://www.skeptics.com.au/about/activities/challenge

0:20:28
The Book of Tim. With Tim Mendham

Unnatural Selection By Tim Mendham

Part 1 of 5

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 - 1913) was an English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. He independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection; his 1858 paper on the subject was published that year alongside extracts from Charles Darwin's earlier writings on the topic.

A reading from The Skeptic, Vol. 44 No. 2

http://www.skeptics.com.au

0:30:26
Australian Skeptics Newsletter

What skeptical news has caught the eye of Tim Mendham this week?
Read by Adrienne Hill.

Also hear Adrienne's insights of her travels across the Pacific Ocean and encounters with alternative medicine.

http://www.skeptics.com.au

0:46:10
The TROVE Archives

A wander through the decades of digitised Australian newspapers on a search for references to "The New Age".

1988.12.13 - The Sydney Morning Herald
1988.10.11 - The Sydney Morning Herald


http://www.trove.nla.gov.au

 

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