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March 13th, 2012 | Category: skepticismRegular readers of this blog may know of “Will”, a frequent commenter on my posts about evolutionary biology and intelligent design who seems to disagree with absolutely everything I say. Some would, and have, called him a troll – I’m a little more lenient in my descriptions, but I usually restrain from responding to him too much, given that his comments are often filled with semi-decipherable appeals to “natural genetic engineering” and consciousness in bacteria and other organisms. In short, I really don’t have time to wade through the murky [...]
» Continue reading “Am I an evolutionary ideologue?”
August 21st, 2011 | Category: skepticismA little while ago, I was interviewed for the Token Skeptic podcast by my good friend Kylie Sturgess (from the Podblack Cat blog), along with Sara Mayhew, Canadian skeptical mangaka and creator of the manga The Legend of the Ztarr. Well, the interview has been released! Listen to me babble on nonsensically as people who actually know what they’re talking about try to pick up the pieces. Masochistic fun for the whole family.
No, it’s actually a pretty good interview: we talk about [...]
» Continue reading “Episode 76 of the Token Skeptic podcast: featuring Sara Mayhew and myself on organised skepticism!”
July 29th, 2011 | Category: skepticismAs I said on Tuesday, I’ve been a little busy while uni starts up again (it’s Semester 2 here, non-Australian readers, not Semester 1 – our end of the teaching year is in November, near the start of our summer), but I’m here once again to begin to finish what I started: telling you all about my amazing TAM 9 experience. In order to compress things a little, I won’t comment on every single thing that happened – you can find out the rest [...]
» Continue reading “Jack’s TAM 9 Adventure to a Land “Up Over”: Day 4″
July 22nd, 2011 | Category: skepticismI’m back! Back from outer space – or at least a skeptical convention whose theme was outer space.
Yep, The Amaz!ng Meeting 9 finished a couple of days ago, and I’m safely back in Australia after over 16 hours of flight time, cramped up in three aeroplanes eating rather disappointing meals and strange American beverages. But the journey wasn’t the interesting part, it was the destination. Last time I left you it was Tuesday the 12th, the day before the day before the official start of TAM (Thursday [...]
» Continue reading “Jack’s TAM 9 Adventure to a Land “Up Over”: Days 2 and 3″
July 13th, 2011 | Category: skepticismOkay, it wasn’t technically Day 1 of The Amaz!ng Meeting 9 today, but it was my first day in Las Vegas and, more generally, my first day in the USA – ever! My flight out of Melbourne was a little delayed, meaning that I spent no time at Sydney airport before my gruelling flight to Los Angeles. And when I say gruelling, I mean it: twelve and a half hours of uncomfortable leg cramping and semi-sleep, broken only by toilet breaks, weird chicken and the film The Adjustment Bureau (which [...]
» Continue reading “Jack’s TAM 9 Adventure to a Land “Up Over”: Day 1″
July 11th, 2011 | Category: skepticismIt’s the night before I leave for The Amaz!ng Meeting 9 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The sun has set. My bags are packed. Everything is still. I look mournfully over the darkness of my home: indeed, it will always be my home, no matter how far away I travel, no matter to what distant lands I trek, no matter wha-
Okay, okay, okay, I’ll cut the dramatic nonsense. Yes, I leave for TAM 9 tomorrow, bound on a long couple of flights that will take me to Las Vegas. [...]
» Continue reading “Jack’s TAM 9 Adventure to a Land “Up Over”: Day 0″
July 7th, 2011 | Category: skepticismThank you so much to everyone who donated to get me to The Amaz!ng Meeting 9 in Las Vegas, because, as some of you might already know, all the money was raised and I will be in Las Vegas in less than a week! Hooray!
Now, for those who thought it was a blatant ploy by yours truly to score a free holiday let me assure you that although it’ll be a fantastic trip and my first time in the United States, my time at TAM 9 won’t be just [...]
» Continue reading “One small step for a student, one giant leap for young Australian skepticism!”
June 8th, 2011 | Category: skepticism
As many of you may have worked out, I’m a poor student. I really don’t have any money to travel the world like some of my peers do. The only other country I’ve ever visited, besides Australia, is New Zealand, and that shouldn’t even be classified as a different country: it’s just Australia with better mountains, fewer sheep, more geothermal activity, strange soft drink and some rather interesting birds. No offense New Zealand, but you’re hardly a worldview-changing cultural experience to an Australian.
Heidi [...]
» Continue reading “Help me break free from the travel-less shackles of poor-studenthood and send me to TAM 9 in Las Vegas!”
February 5th, 2011 | Category: skepticismMy good friend Kylie Sturgess has teamed up with Matt Rogers and Milton Mermikides to produce this pretty excellent video about why people believe in the alternative medicine of homeopathy.
There’s a variety of reasons why someone might believe in homeopathy.Homeopathy isn’t as powerful as its supporters claim it is – the power of the human mind is greater. Which is why we have to use our minds, when it comes to getting the message out. There’s more to stopping homeopathy than taking [...]
» Continue reading “Little Sugar Pills – Why Fall For Homeopathy?”
November 29th, 2010 | Category: skepticismAlternatively: DAYMN Australia or BLAM Australia. SHAM Australia is completely inappropriate.
It’s over! I flew back to Melbourne from Sydney today, and TAM Australia officially finished yesterday afternoon. What a weekend and a bit! Starting midday Friday, it was a whirlwind of wonderful talks, panels and entertaining presentations from well-known skeptics from all over the world. It’d be impossible to wrap it up completely, so I’ll only briefly touch on what were the best bits, in my opinion.
Forgive me if I fail to be eloquent, my brain [...]
» Continue reading “TAM Australia – more like WHAM Australia, am I right?”
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Homologous Legs is the blog of Jack Scanlan, an Australian biology student who has a serious problem with creationists, intelligent design proponents and anyone else who misrepresents evolutionary biology or science in general.
He uses this blog to post news about the intelligent design/evolution "war", science communication in biology and chemistry, and mostly coherent thoughts from his scattered, music-loving brain. Contact
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