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Comments and Articles
Commentaries and magazine articles I have written have appeared in the following publications.
The journal of the Australian Skeptics
- Y2K - Is there still time to panic?
- Y2K - What went wrong?
- Homeopathy - all the idiocy that fits
- Fighting the Medi-scams
- The Danger of Knowing for Sure
- Ignorance is Strength
- The mass media does its job. Not.
- We're off to see the Benny, The wonderful Benny of God
- Dante and Virgil descend to Hurstville
- How many people do those doctors kill?
- Pan Pharmaceuticals - if it ducks like a quack
- Quackery
- Quackery Down Under
- "Blasphemy" comes before "Science" in the dictionary
- Pasteur's Last Words
- Literature v Literalism
- Doing the sums with MLM
- The Myth of "The Myth of Mental Illness" (S)
- Faith, Fact and Fiction : The demarcation of science and non-science
- Blackmore's and the Pharmacy Guild - a marriage made in Hell
- Skeptical Field Trips
- How to attack freedom of speech.
- Craig and Krauss – religion meets science
- Burzynski gets audited
- Bending your conscience to fit your opinion
- Philosophical skepticism and what skeptics really do
- Philosophy and Science
- Confirmation bias, denialism and Morton’s Demon (AS)
- Words have meanings.
- History lesson for smart kids (1)
- Truth and Fiction
- The Dietary Supplement Experiment Begins
- The Magical Mystery Museum
- Is that a cart or a barrow that horse is pushing?
- How not to do science - Everyone retracts except Dr Wakefield
- True Believers
- Psychological testing
- The Power of Coincidence
- Still Deluded After All These Years
- Science as she is spoke
- Multiple Chemical Stupidity?
- Pasteur's Last Words
- Multi-level Marketing Doesn't Add Up
- Polite request to creationists
- Progress? We don’t need no stinking progress.
- Have you heard the one about ... ?
- Debating the undebatable
- I try not to know what just ain’t so
- Understand the numbers? Don’t count on it.
- Where were you 40 years ago?
- The Anti-vaccination Lobby
- The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
- Getting risk wrong (AS)
- What's that up in the sky? Is it a …?
- We have a saint!
- Asses and the law
- Misremembering the past
- "Blasphemy" comes before "Science" in the dictionary
- Of meridians and mice
- Who has the backbone to stop this?
- Give me my word back.
- Lying with the truth
- Final jab for the anti-vaccination lobby
- Treating the symptoms
- Confirmation bias, denialism and Morton’s Demon (AS)
- The end is nigh! Repent!
- Beware! Are invisible rays frying your brain?
- Denialists ignore the science
- Science books? We don't need no stinkin' science books
- Knowing things that just ain’t so
- My patience is tried
- A close run thing at the chemist
- Magic wands (AS)
- Checking the facts (AS)
- Anatomy of a quack
- Peer review - Close enough is better than nothing.
- Citation Cold Case
- Homeopathy watered down?
- When religion and medicine disagree
- Organic food. What’s in it for me?
- Will your smart meter make you less smart?
- What science isn’t.
- We’re still here.
- The girl in the iron lung.
- We live in fearful times.
- How time flies.
- The times they are a changin’
- A conspiracy of conspiracists
- Fides et Ratio – Faith and reason
- It’s all happening. And it’s all connected
- Filtering science through conspiracy
- What you see might not be what you get
- Philosophy Versus Science, And Vice Versa
- The Best Research Money Can Buy
- The AVN circles the drain
- Right to read denied by deniers
- Darwin visits the Blue Mountains
- Words have meanings.
- Keeping your skepticism out of court (AS)
- Milks ain't milk
- Stem promises give way to abuses
- James Randi: An Honest Liar
- A Placebo Can relieve A Skeptic's Pain
- The Precautionary Principle
- It can't hurt you. It's natural.
- If it’s too good to be true …
- Get together and do it again.
- Argumentum ad whateverum
- Nocebo – whatever doesn’t kill you might.
- Are all placebos equal?
- One, two, three. What are we counting for?
- Things change. Get used to it.
- History lesson for smart kids (1)
- What is a PhD worth?
- Universities. What are they for?
- Smart people. Strange ideas.
- Put the Lyme in the quackonut
- The Myth of "The Myth of Mental Illness" (AS)
- School Daze
- Take your pet duck to the quack
- Skeptics aren’t always skeptical.
- The Bloated Truth About Gluten
- Is philosophy dead?
- Don't let straw men give you hay fever.
- Irregular regulation
- Hold the front page! More clickbait coming.
- "Vaxxed" spreads like a plague
- Counting the Opinions
- Go! Learn things.
- Foxes and henhouses
- Introduction to skepticism
- Homeopathy - How can honest people sell this rubbish?
- The 9/11 conspiracies
- Can atheism be called a dangerous idea?
- The real truth about vaccinations
- The outer limits of woowoo
- Multiple Chemical Stupidity?
- 150 years since the death of creationism
- "Limited only by the laws of physics"
- A very profitable trick
- "Psychic" Predictions for 2010
- Devastation in Haiti
- The Power of Coincidence
- Damaging autism paper retracted
- Debating the undebatable
- Polypharmacy
- Targeting the susceptible
- World Homeopathy Awareness Week
- Literature v Literalism (Y)
- Publication in the peer-reviewed literature
- Creationists coming! Think of the children!
- Getting risk wrong (AS)
- An atheist at Christmas
- Psychic predictions for 2011
- The good news keeps on coming
- Checking the facts (Y)
- Magic wands (Y)
- Acts of God?
- Don’t make any plans for Sunday. Jesus was wrong!
- Mobile phones are frying our brains.
- That dreadful carbon tax
- A night out with the creationists
- Theatre of the absurd
- Free speech breaks out in Anti-vax Land?
- Psychics predict the future. Do they?
- Homeopathy – so diluted there’s no evidence left.
- The Woo Review
- How many unicorns does it take to match a draught horse’s weight?
Articles published on the Gebesse blog
Articles on my personal blog
(Coming back soon)
Columns written a few years ago for the Sydney Business Review
- Superhypeway - Separating the chaff from the chaff (December 1994)
- Bankers - The Mad Banker's Tea Party (February 1995)
- Economists - A Different Universe (March 1995)
- Superannuation - Now you see it, then you won't! (April 1995)
- Tax advice - Spend More to Save More (June 1995)
- Computerspeak -Interpreters wanted? (July 1995)
- Conical Marketing - The paradigm for the 90s, and definitely not pyramid selling (August 1995)
- The way we were - Windows 95 reminds us how little has changed (September 1995)
- Have I got a job for you? - Money for jam in the recruitment business (October 1995)
- Parramatta - Foundation Day 1995 inspires some thoughts about the city (November 1995)
- Avoid clichés like the plague! - Advice for tabloid and TV journalists (December 1995)
- Snake oil alert - Internet experts sprout like mushrooms (August 1996)
- Intranets - More computer stuff you keep getting told you must have (November 1996)
