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THE SECOND COMING All the Best from the Skeptic, 1986–1990 Skepticism THETHE SECONDSECOND COMINGCOMING All the best from the Skeptic, 1986–1990 Skepticism Edited by Barry Williams Compiled by Richard Saunders New Cartoons by Penny Rowe (Funny Penny) & Richard Saunders THE SECOND COMING All the best from the Skeptic, 1986–1990 Skepticism Vol 6 No 1 - 1986 Skeptics Swamp Media Mark Plummer The Australian Skeptics media coverage reached an all-time high at the start of this year with a news item generated by the Australian Skeptics appearing somewhere in the Australian media every day for over a month. Just after Christmas we sent out a Press Release announcing our $1000 prize offer for the most skeptical article to appear in the Australian media during 1986. The release also contained our prediction kit for 1986 and this was run by the Melbourne Sunday Press and the Canberra Times. On 3rd January we released our book, "Creationism” - An Australian Perspective in Brisbane and Sydney. This was covered nationally on the SBS network and throughout Queensland on commercial stations. The Melbourne Age gave the story front page coverage and we had numerous interviews on talk radio shows. Normally a story runs for a couple of days but the debate over the book has had continuous coverage for eight weeks and we know 1 THE SECOND COMING All the best from the Skeptic, 1986–1990 Skepticism of more book reviews to come. Lynne and Damien Kelly have just finished a The book swamped our second story that of comprehensive index to the Skeptic. composers' post-mortal works being played in the Dr Tony Wheeler has just compiled a major Festival of Sydney, but coverage of that story appeared bibliography of Australian published material on the in two Melbourne papers and on radio. paranormal. What amazing coverage in the mass media! A full In addition, the Australian Skeptics will further page in Sydney's Daily Telegraph, lengthy articles in encourage skeptics to research and write up articles The Australian, Canberra Times, the Melbourne Age, for the Skeptic or to try their hand at having them Sun, Brisbane's Daily Sun Tasmania's Mercury, the published in the print media. We know of at least 20 Adelaide News. Skeptics who are into free-lance journalism and we The specialist press also picked up the story with a would like to interest more. full page in Omega, and a full page in the Queensland Remember a good well-written article can be just Teachers' Journal. as exciting as anything served up by the Kevin Arnett's, The religious media also gave extensive, coverage John Pinkney's or the Gary Wiseman’s of Australia. but no-one more than New Life, Australia's leading There is no doubt that skeptics are winning the media evangelical paper, who devoted a full page editorial battle in Australia. Reason, science and logic are on attacking us and gave several pages over a number of our side and if we keep up our efforts we can all live issues to the creationist viewpoints. in a saner Australia. The book should have been enough to keep us busy but we also joined a full page examining "Astrological Birth Control" in the Sunday Press and a spot on Good Morning Australia on the claims of a faith healer to heal AIDS by laying on of hands. The month of continuous coverage concluded with Vol 6 No 2 - 1986 an article in the Sydney Morning Herald continuing our comments on the Orange UFO sightings. At this rate we will have to set up our own Press Agency! Although we cannot operate a press agency we CSICOP Fellows have organised our information and archives in such a way as to make them accessible to the media, serious At the NSW Branch dinner on April 4th, Professor researchers and/or skeptics alike. Paul Kurtz, chairman of the Committee for the Jenny Smith has just completed sorting out and Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal cataloguing our newspaper and magazine clipping (CSICOP), announced Mark Plummer and Dick Smith collection. had been elected the first two Australian Fellows of Barry Williams, Dick Smith, Paul Kurtz, Mark Plummer 2 THE SECOND COMING All the best from the Skeptic, 1986–1990 Skepticism CSICOP. In 1980, Mark Plummer was the foundation President of. the Australian Skeptics, and then National President for the following five and a half years. He is best known for his investigative and organisational skills. It is less known that Mark has also spent a great deal of time encouraging young journalists and fellow skeptics to research pseudoscience. Dick Smith has been a patron of the Australian Skeptics since its foundation. He sponsored the original visits of James Randi and Robert Steiner to Australia. He has also given organisational support and also vigorously promoted the Australian Skeptics even when attacked by creationists and pseudoscientists. Mark and Dick join forty-six other international fellows including - Isaac Asimov (author), Antony Flew (philosopher), Martin Gardner (author), Stephen Jay Gould (zoologist), C.E.M. Hansel (psychologist), Vol 6 No 3 - 1986 Paul MacCready (scientist), James Randi (magician), Carl Sagan (astronomer), B.F. Skinner (psychologist) and Robert Steiner (magician). The Distaste For Disorder Willian Grey William Grey has taught philosophy at the Skeptics of the Year Australian National University and Temple University, Philadelphia. He works in the Department of Science in Canberra and is At the annual meeting of the National and State Secretary of the ACT branch of Australian Committees on March 29th, Dr Martin Bridgestock Skeptics. and Dr Ken Smith were unanimously chosen as Skeptics of the Year. Astrologers say that if you're born between 20 They were chosen in recognition of their work as February and 20 March you're extremely sensitive, co-editors of “Creationism” - An Australian unworldly and impractical, and always eager to try Perspective. and escape from reality. These characteristics, they The book, now in its second edition, showed the claim are the result, not of constitution or upbringing, Creation Science Movement in Australia to be but of the position of the sun at the time of your birth. pseudoscientific and religiously motivated. Numerologists might tell you similar stories based on It revealed facts about the sevenmember Creation numbers associated with the letters of your name. Science Foundation they were trying to keep secret Others will read your destiny or character in the palm from their supporters. of your hand, or even a teacup. The book took thousands of hours of research, Many people dismiss such claims as a lot of harmless writing and typesetting and the Creationists have only nonsense. And it's hard to deny that astrology, been able to counter with personal attacks on the numerology and so forth provide a lot of innocent authors. amusement. What's wrong, you may ask, with Congratulations Martin Bridgestock and Ken Smith. indulging in this sort of fantasy entertainment? Well, one worry is that for some people it can be more than entertainment; it becomes an obsession, even a form of tyranny in their lives. My aim, however, isn't to fulminate against the dangers of delusory belief systems- though the dangers are real enough. I want 3 THE SECOND COMING All the best from the Skeptic, 1986–1990 Skepticism rather to examine some features of the structure of I want to talk a little about a stark difference between paranormal belief which, I think, are both unobvious different ways of looking at the world: a skeptical view, and interesting. which is the one I adopt, and the way which is I'm someone who's greatly puzzled about belief in characteristically adopted by psychics and other friends the paranormal. Claims made by psychics and of the paranormal (a very mixed bag). astrologers about our destinies, ESP and so forth are In particular, it seems to me that while the world ones which I find extraordinary and bizarre. While can sometimes be favourably ordered according to lots of skeptics devote a great deal of energy to the our designs, our best laid plans are frequently salutary business of "debunking" the claims of the confounded by what Michael Frayn has nicely called battalions of clairvoyants, creationists and psychic the sheer knobbliness of things. Accident, mishap, and fellow-travellers (by revealing errors of logic and of contingency feature centrally as incontrollable and fact in their claims), it seems to me that not enough unpredictable factors (but not, I stress, as agencies), effort is devoted to the equally important business of which perpetually dissipate the organisation and order trying to understand the underlying belief structure of which we try to impose upon our surroundings. The the paranormal. I think there is such a framework; an law of Murphy seems to me to capture an important underlying belief structure which is not always justified, feature of the way that the world resists our attempts but which is nevertheless widespread, robust and, I to structure it in a systematic and organised manner. will suggest, actually constitutive of the way which The way that psychics and other friends of the we interpret the world. paranormal make sense of the world is very different. While it's interesting to speculate on what motivates Where I see chaos and mishap, they see hidden people to adopt bizarre "systems of belief, we must continuity and pattern. In this lies the basic difference bear in mind that examining motives for belief has its between their world-view and my own. dangers. It's all very well to point out that a particular Entering the belief structure of a psychic presents belief is attractive because it is comforting, establishes a difficulty for people like myself; it's a bit like one's position as one of the chosen amid the multitude attempting to fathom the thinking of a distant, foreign of the damned, or cannot be easily abandoned because tribe with a wildly discrepant world-view.
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