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WA
Skeptics
Awards
for Young
Critical
Writers

About the Awards Years 8-12 write critically on any strange belief. Free entry 5g 4m
Critical Thinking in the Classroom Teacher and student views on the Awards 5g 5m
How to Write Your Entry Step-by-step classroom guide with examples 1g 10m
Sixteen Examples of Entries Includes four winners. See what others did 25m
Skeptic Books Donated to Schools in recognition of successful entries 2g 1m
2006 Results With pictures and student comments. Inspiring stuff 6g 3m
2007 Results Twice the entries of 2006. All to a high standard 2g 4m
2008 Results Young critical writers widen their horizons to include social issues 2g 4m
Interested teachers and students should start by reading the first item above
Closing date for 2009 Awards is 30 June 2009. Entry is free

Classroom
Resources

At last! Good news for teachers -- this site's philosophy, readability scores 3g 2m
Books and Magazines critical of the paranormal. For secondary students 11g 7m
Common Crooked Arguments And how to meet them head on 2g 6m
Crash Course in Critical Thinking It's easy -- just ask the right questions 4g 7m
Links Skeptic websites useful for secondary schools. Profusely annotated 15m
Printing, Searching, Translating Articles from this website. Helpful hints 1m

Investi
gations
by WA
Skeptics
Highlights
since 1980

Strange Powers
Contacting the Dead 1984. Tricks of the trade. We meet Doris Collins 5m
Divining for Brass and Gold 1980. A public test in Perth of 26 diviners 6m
Psychic Surgery 1983. Believers were wowed by our fake demo 1g 3m
Strange Things
Chariots Old Hat in New Age 1989. Erich von Daniken self-destructs 2g 7m
Enough to Make a Statue Weep 2002. But never ever genuine tears 10m
Has Wine a Magnetic Personality? 2006. Our blind tests say No 3g 8m
Mythbuster TV Classics 2006. More entertainment than genuine science 3g 6m
Rendezvous with a UFOlogist 1995. What we saw weren't UFOs 5m
Star Wars 2004. Astrologers react predictably to inconvenient truths 2g 7m
Body & Spirit
Chocolate is Good for You 1998. The dietary news you wanted to hear 6m
Undeceiving Ourselves
Attempts on the $A100,000 Prize 1995+. One serious. None successful 2g 5m
Before WA Skeptics Existed 1980. Active Perth group offered $1000 prize 1g 3m
Paranormal Beliefs of Trainee Teachers 1987. Mostly bad news. With stats 6m
Worlds Apart 1999. We experience how believers differ from scientists 1g 2m

Weird
Things
meet
Critical
Thinking
in action
around
the world

Strange Powers
A Day at the Psychic Fair 2006. Rip-offs and the high cost of true belief 2g 4m
Cold Reading 2000. James Randi on how psychics like John Edwards deceive 1g 4m
Divining for Water 1984. A look at field tests from around the world 4g 10m
I Can Smell Onions 2006. Psychics useless in 30 years of Search & Rescue 5m
Psychic for a Day 1998. After 24h of practice Kari Coleman was able to deceive 12m
Psychic on Demand 2003. Michael Shermer fakes 4 psychic techniques on TV 20m
Strange Things
Atlantis Falcon 1989. By Raymond Channeller. Cool spoof. It's fiction, babe 10m
Cereal Killers 2002. Going round in corn circles for fun and profit 2g 4m
Haricotes Flambes en Chien 1999. Dealing with believers. Don't try this at home 1m
Mindless Quantum 2007. Why some self-help gurus are off the planet 2g 5m
Planting by the Moon 2005. A professional gardener tests a persistent myth 1g 8m
Things You Won't Believe 1998. Actual ads. And error messages you will believe 2m
True Confessions 2003. How testing sun signs ruined my love life 1g 1m
Body & Spirit
Gerin Oil 2003. A timely warning from Richard Dawkins. Read it and despair 4m
Karma, Dharma, Pudding and Pie 1998. Five short poems for pagan skeptics 1m
Oxygen is Good 2004. Even when it's not there. Oxy-based medical scams 10m
Red Alert The terrible secrets of carrots, bread, and dihydrogen monoxide 2m
Undeceiving Ourselves
Can you Detect Hoaxes? 2002. Test yourself. Discover why it's not easy 5m
Critical Thinking 2006. Making it popular at uni. Yes it does change false beliefs 5m
I was a High-School Skeptic 2006. Encounters with a high-school Tarot reader 6m
Million Dollar Prize 2005. James Randi on the strange people who try for it 1g 25m
Scourge of the Godmen 1993. One man's fight in India against deception 1g 5m
Teaching Pigs to Sing 2006. How I failed to bring sense to true believers 1g 12m
Undeceiving Ourselves 2007. How our thinking goes astray. With remedies 6g 15m

About WA
Skeptics

Contact and Meeting Details We meet every two months in Shenton Park 5g 4m
Go with Australian Skeptics History, magazine, philosophy, $100,000 prize 3g 3m
History of WA Skeptics 1980-1995. Events, investigations, pictures 7g 6m
Late News This website's first 12 months. Visitors are increasing 2g 1m
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Site began Nov 2007. Has over 3700 visitors a year. Last update Nov 2008