Useful Links

Members' Links

These links belong to members, subscribers and other friends of Australian Skeptics. Please email us if you have a site which you think should be included here. (Email address are on our Contacts page.)

Mystery Investigators - Richard Saunders and Rachael Dunlop take lessons about how to think critically and scientifically into the schools.

RatbagsDotCom - Peter Bowditch's collection of the mad, the bad, and the sad on the Internet. This site is a magnet for fruitcakes, loons, optimistic lawyers and people who don't like having the truth exposed.

The Australian Council Against Health Fraud - Fighting medical quackery since 2003

No Answers in Genesis - John Stear's facts to fight creationism

Bad Language. Karen Stollznow's site for "busting myths about language and a resource for skepticism and critical thinking".

The Skeptic Zone - The weekly podcast from Australia for science and reason.

Related organisations

Australian Skeptics is not the only organisation fighting faulty thinking

• The Skeptics Society
• James Randi Educational Foundation
• CSICOP
• Bad Astronomy
• The Association for Skeptical Enquiry
• New Zealand Skeptics
• Griffith University Society for Skeptics and Freethinkers

Other links

These links are derived from the database at The Green Light, a site owned by Australian Skeptics Inc President Peter Bowditch. Suggestions for inclusion are always welcome. Please note that these links open in a new window and open web pages outside the Australian Skeptics site. Australian Skeptics cannot be held responsible for the content of external sites which we do not control.

Religion

• Amnesty International
• Amnesty International Australia
• Apologetics Research Resources on Religious Cults, Sects, Religions, Doctrines, Etc.
• The Atheist's Guide to Religion
• The Australian Constitution - Section 116
• The Authorized King James Version Bible
• The Bible Code (Dave Thomas)
• The Book of Common Prayer
• Children's Healthcare Is a Legal Duty (CHILD, Inc.)
• Committee to Defend Women's Rights in the Middle East
• Current Issues in Alternative Medicine
• Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability
• The Hate Directory - Hate Groups on the Internet The Hate Directory - Hate Groups on the Internet
• Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society
• Judaism 101
• Lisa McPherson : The Clearwater Police Department Files (Kristi Wachter)
• MinistryWatch
• Narconon Exposed
• Operation Clambake - The Inner Secrets Of Scientology (Andreas Heldal-Lund)
• Pharyngula (PZ Myers)
• Rationalist Society of Australia
• Religious Tolerance
• Ron the Nut
• Science and Religion
• Scientology and Dianetics - Tax-exempt Child Abuse and Neglect
• Scientology associated deaths (Mike Gormez)
• The Scientology Comparative Theology Page (Perry Scott)
• Scientology Kills
• Scientology Lies (Kristi Wachter)
• Simon Wiesenthal Center
• The Skeptical Web
• The Skeptic's Annotated Bible (Steve Wells)
• Stripping the Gurus (Geoffrey Falk)
• Suppressive Person Defense League (Gerry Armstrong)
• The Tolerance Project
• The Trinity Foundation
• The Truth About Scientology (Kristi Wachter)
• U.S. Constitution - Bill of Rights
• The Unbound Bible
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• The Vatican
• Watchtower Information Service
• The Watchtower Society and Medical Quackery

Creationism

• American Atheists // Evolution/Creationism
• Answers in Science
• AntiEvolution.org
• The Antiquity of Man (Mikey Brass)
• The complete work of Charles Darwin
• The Darwin Correspondence Project
• The Darwin Digital Library of Evolution
• The Descent of Man (Charles Darwin)
• Evolution Happens (Don Tosaw Jr)
• Evolution Resources (Kenneth Miller)
• Geologic Time: The Story of a Changing Earth
• The ICR Cult's "Back to Genesis" Scam
• The Intelligent Design Hoax (William Bennetta)
• Life of a Vertebrate Fossil
• National Center for Science Education
• National Museum of Natural History - Dinosaurs
• No Answers in Genesis! (John Stear)
• On The Origin Of Species By Means Of Natural Selection (Charles Darwin)
• Other Resources for Defending Evolution (John Rennie)
• The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science
• The Skeptic's Annotated Bible (Steve Wells)
• The Talk.Origins Archive: Exploring the Creation/Evolution Controversy
• Talkdesign.org
• Understanding Evolution

Alternative Medicine

• 125 Fake Cancer 'Cures' Consumers Should Avoid
• About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
• Advocates for Children in Therapy
• AllRefer Health
• Alternative Medicine and Cancer (Peter Moran)
• Alzheimer Myths (dental amalgam, aspartame, …)
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• American Council on Science and Health
• Americans for Medical Progress
• Aromatherapy Debunked and Defended (Anya McCoy)
• The Aspartame Home Page
• Association of Online Cancer Resources
• Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
• The Australian Council Against Health Fraud
• The Australian False Memory Association
• Australian Family Physician
• The Australian Nutrition Foundation Inc (Nutrition Australia)
• Australian Patient Safety Foundation
• Australian Prescriber
• Autism Diva
• Bad Science (2) (Ben Goldacre)
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• British Medical Journal
• CancerGuide (Steve Dunn)
• CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
• Children's Healthcare Is a Legal Duty (CHILD, Inc.)
• Chirobase (Stephen Barrett)
• The Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health
• Credentialling Solutions
• Current Issues in Alternative Medicine
• Debunking Thought Field Therapy
• Dietfraud.com (Terry Polevoy)
• Directory of Open Access Journals - Medicine (General)
• The Evidence That HIV Causes AIDS
• The Expanded Dictionary of Metaphysical Healthcare, Alternative Medicine, Paranormal Healing, and Related Methods (Jack Raso)
• Facts Versus Fears (ACSH)
• Federal Trade Commission
• Food and Drug Administration
• Free Medical Journals
• Free Medline Search at Medportal.com
• From Test Tube To Patient : New Drug Development in the United States
• Hahnemann's Organon Of Medicine
• Health Information (Loretta Marron)
• Healthopedia.com
• HealthWatch (David Bender)
• Healthwatcher (Terry Polevoy)
• Healthy Skepticism
• Homeopathy - all the idiocy that fits (Peter Bowditch)
• Homeopathy - how could any honest person sell this rubbish? (Peter Bowditch)
• The Immune System
• Immunology index (Kevin J. McElwee)
• Infectious Diseases in Children
• The Infectious Diseases Society of America
• International AIDS Society
• Issues & Concerns in Using Medical Information on the Web (Kay Benjamin)
• Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
• Kids Come First
• Laetrile/Amygdalin
• The Lancet
• Leandra Smith's Experience with Hulda Clark
• Levels of Evidence for Human Studies of Cancer - Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• The Measles Initiative
• Media Doctor
• The Medical Journal of Australia
• MEDLINEplus: Medical Dictionary
• MEDLINEplus: Medical Encyclopedia
• The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
• The Merck Manual of Medical Information - Home Edition
• The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices (Bob McCoy)
• myDr
• Narconon Exposed
• The National Association for Chiropractic Medicine
• The National Cancer Institute
• The National Council Against Health Fraud
• National Fraud Information Center
• The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
• National Library of Medicine, Medlineplus Health Fraud
• National Patient Safety Foundation
• The New England Journal of Medicine
• NIAID Division of AIDS
• The NSW Public Health Bulletin
• Nutra-Smart.net (Stuart Adams)
• Operation Cure.All (US Federal Trade Commission)
• PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health)
• Persiflagers Annotated Compendium of Infections Disease Facts, Opinion and Dogma (Mark Crislip)
• Pharmaceutical & Medical Abbreviation Dictionary
• Pharyngula (PZ Myers)
• Probability and Statistics -- from MathWorld
• Pseudodoxia Epidemica : or, Enquiries Into very many Received Tenents And commonly presumed Truths. (Sir Thomas Browne)
• PubMed
• QuackCast (Mark Crislip)
• The Quack-Files (Paul Lee)
• Quackwatch (Stephen Barrett)
• Quantum Quackery (Victor J. Stenger)
• Recovered Memory Therapy in Australia
• Regulation of advertising of therapeutic goods in Australia
• Respectful Insolence
• Science Based Medicine
• The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine
• The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice
• Side Effects, Interactions and Warnings About Herbs
• Side Effects, Interactions and Warnings About Vitamins and Supplements
• The SkepDoc (Harriet Hall)
• The Skeptic's Dictionary - Alternative Medicine (Robert T. Carroll)
• Therapeutic Goods Administration (Australia)
• Therapeutic Goods Administration (Australia) - Complaints Resolution Panel
• Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code Council (Australia)
• The Truth, Myths and Lies About the Health and Diet of the "Long-Lived" People of Hunza, Pakistan, Hunza Bread and Pie Recipes
• Understanding Cancer Series (National Cancer Institute)
• Unorthodox Techniques for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Allergy, Asthma and Immune Disorders (ASCIA)
• The Watchtower Society and Medical Quackery

Pseudoscience

• American Council on Science and Health
• Americans for Medical Progress
• An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (James Randi)
• Apollo Lunar Surface Journal (NASA)
• The Aspartame Home Page
• Australian & New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
• Australian & New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science - Victorian Division
• The Australian False Memory Association
• Australian Skeptics
• Bad Astronomy (Phil Plait)
• Bad Psychics
• Bad Psychics (Australia)
• Bad Science (1) (Alistair B. Fraser)
• Bad Science (2) (Ben Goldacre)
• Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit
• Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
• Clavius Moon Base - debunking the moon hoax
• The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (formerly CSICOP)
• The complete work of Charles Darwin
• The Darwin Digital Library of Evolution
• Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division (Tom Way)
• The Encyclopedia of Life
• False Memory Syndrome Foundation
• Greenspirit (Patrick Moore)
• Humbug! Online - a blog for iconoclasts (Jef and Theo Clark)
• In the Hall of Ma'at - Weighing the Evidence for Alternative History
• James Randi Educational Foundation
• Moon Hoax Index
• Mrs. Glosser's Math Goodies
• Non-Sense (Jason Hameister)
• Patent Searching Database
• Periodic Table
• Pharyngula (PZ Myers)
• Probability and Statistics -- from MathWorld
• Pseudodoxia Epidemica : or, Enquiries Into very many Received Tenents And commonly presumed Truths. (Sir Thomas Browne)
• Quantum Quackery (Victor J. Stenger)
• Recovered Memory Therapy in Australia
• The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science
• ScienceAlert - Australia & New Zealand
• The Scientific Method Today (Norman W. Edmund)
• The Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science (Robert Park)
• The Skeptic Friends Network
• Skeptico
• The Skeptic's Dictionary (Robert T. Carroll)
• The Skeptics Society (Michael Shermer)
• SkepticWiki - the Encyclopedia of Science and Critical Thinking
• Statistical Assessment Service
• Toward a general theory of pathological science (Nicholas J. Turro)
• United States Patent and Trademark Office
• Urban Legends Reference Pages (Snopes)
• What is pseudoscience? (Stephen K. Lower)
• What's New by Bob Park
• The Wild Side of Geoarchaeology (Paul V. Heinrich)
• The Yuckiest Site on the Internet (Discovery Channel)

Logic and critical thinking

• Bad Language (Karen Stollznow)
• Bad Moves (Julian Baggini)
• Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit
• The Critical Thinking Community
• The Critical Thinking Consortium
• Fallacies
• The Fallacy Files (Gary Curtis)
• Logic & Fallacies
• Mission: Critical -- SJSU's Critical Thinking Web Page (David Mesher)
• Philosophy & Reasoning Network
• Probability and Statistics -- from MathWorld
• Professor Tangent's Logic
• Pseudodoxia Epidemica : or, Enquiries Into very many Received Tenents And commonly presumed Truths. (Sir Thomas Browne)
• Psychologists Educating Students to Think Skeptically
• The Reason! Project (Tim van Gelder)
• Responsible Thinking (Robert Korn)
• The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science
• ScienceAlert - Australia & New Zealand
• The Scientific Method Today (Norman W. Edmund)
• The SKEPTIC Annotated Bibliography (Taner Edis)
• The Skeptic Friends Network
• The Skeptic's Dictionary (Robert T. Carroll)
• Statistical Assessment Service
• Urban Legends Reference Pages (Snopes)
• The Vocabula Review
• What is pseudoscience? (Stephen K. Lower)
• The Woo-Woo Credo
• The Yuckiest Site on the Internet (Discovery Channel)