I was reading the comments on a random Facebook post – as one does – and the author of one comment suggested that it was not worth talking to ‘a sub 105’. By this he meant, I can only presume, someone with an IQ of less than 105.
It seems to me an obvious injustice to reduce a person and their worth to a number, but I found this all the more objectionable because that number comes from an area of academic psychology of which I am deeply sceptical. Read More...
The Australian Skepticsrun a monthly event in the pub where they get speakers on topics vaguely related to movement skepticism or that will at least be found interesting by their membership. A friend of mine is on the AS committee and I suggested to her a few months ago that I might want to give a talk.
I had noticed that speaking seemed to be an important part of the career of a writer – book launches and writing festival panels, maybe even speaking at the opera house. Read More...
Get ready for a hot take—
—two Greens senators have now resigned from office because they hold nominal citizenship of another country; New Zealand for Scott Ludlam and Canada for Larissa Waters. Some comments have focused on the incompetence of the party machine in not checking these things. Others have questioned the citizenship status of other members of parliament born overseas who may, known to them or not, technically be dual citizens. Read More...
