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+50 Anniversary of the Moon Landing SKEPTICISM . SCIENCE . SOCIETY Vol 39, No 2. June 2019 TheCost of FREE Speech +50th Anniversary of The Moon Landing Australian Skeptics . www.skeptics.com.au Skeptic_Cover_Mar19.indd 1 3/06/2019 9:50 pm The Skeptic June 19 Skeptical Groups in Australia NSW VIC Australian Skeptics Inc – Eran Segev Australian Skeptics (Victorian Branch) Inc – Chris Guest www.skeptics.com.au PO Box 5166, Melbourne VIC 3001 PO Box 20, Beecroft, NSW 2119 Tel: 0403 837 339 [email protected] Tel: 02 8094 1894; Mob: 0432 713 195; Fax: (02) 8088 4735 [email protected] Skeptics’ Café – third Monday of every month, with guest speaker, at the Dan O’Connell Hotel, 225 Canning St, Carlton. Sydney Skeptics in the Pub – 6pm first Thursday of each Meal from 6pm, speaker at 8pm sharp. month at the Occidental Hotel, York Street in the city, near More details on our web site www.skeptics.com.au/vic Wynyard Park (meeting second floor) Dinner meetings are held on a regular basis. Ballarat Skeptics in the Pub http://facebook.com/groups/3978112230309544 Hunter Skeptics – John Turner Tel: (02) 4959 6286 [email protected] Gippsland Skeptics in the Pub Occasional social meetings at the Cricketers Arms Hotel, Cooks Interested parties contact Mark Guerin or Martin Christian Power Hill. Those on the contact list will be sent details in advance. via the Gippsland Skeptics page: https://www.facebook.com/ Currently meeting at 12.30 on third Sunday of each odd-numbered groups/291929110900396/?ref=bookmarks month. Melbourne Eastern Hills Skeptics in the Pub Blue Mountains Skeptics Contact: Andrew Rawlings [email protected] See Facebook for details. Tel: 0438 043 050 hyyp://groupspaces.com/meh-sitp https://www.facebook.com/pages/Melbourne-Eastern-Hills Coffs Coast Skeptics & Freethinkers See Facebook for details. Skeptics-in-the-Pub/19241290737690 Meets second Monday of each month at The Knox Club, Wantirna South. ACT Canberra Skeptics – Lauren Kelly PO Box 555, Civic Square ACT 2608 Melbourne Skeptics in the Pub www.canberraskeptics.org.au Tel: 0410 382 306 See Facebook for details. [email protected] (general inquiries), Meets on the fourth Monday of every month from 6 pm at the [email protected] (Canberra Skeptics in the Pub). Mt View Hotel in Richmond. A free monthly talk, open to the public - check website for details Skeptics in the Pub gather at 1pm on the third Sunday of each Mordi Skeptics in the Pub month at King O’Malleys Pub in Civic. For up-to-date details: http://www.meetup.com/Mordi-Skeptics-in-the-Pub/ www.meetup.com/ SocialSkepticsCanberra/ Meets at 7.30pm on the first Tuesday of each month at the Mordialloc Sporting Club. ($4 to cover website costs) For details on Skeptical groups in other states and territories, see inside back cover Volume 39 • No 2 June 19 Contents FEATURES Fighting Words 12 Tim Mendham 16 It’s Only Academic 16 Tim Mendham Eggs are for Eating 21 Martin Hadley 12 Drawing a Line 22 Phillipa Smith 22 21 ARTICLES 28 Message from the Moon 24 Geoff Allshorn 24 36 Life & Times of Moon Hoax 28 Brian Dunning Tidal Wave of Planets 36 Martin Bridgstock Ghost in a Box 40 Ari Moore Military Myths 42 Win Fowles 46 UFOs Won’t Go Away 46 Keith Kloor 42 40 REGULARS Editorial 4 Around the Traps 5 Them! 10 57 Logical place 23 Puzzles page 27 Book review 57 What goes around 58 Letters 60 Quotable Quotes 62 58 EDITORIAL Sticks and stones ticks and stones will break my bones, what they can say. But misinformation but words will never hurt me. about science, misleading information, S This is obviously untrue, as every or outright lies can be just as bullied child knows. The childhood damaging to individuals and society as rhyme is a defensive move, almost a hate-filled information, and should be plea, for their tormentor not to hurt treated accordingly. ISSN 0726-9897 them. Yes, sticks and stones are painful, In this issue of The Skeptic we look Quarterly Journal of but anyone who’s been on the butt end at the concept of free speech from a Australian Skeptics Inc of invective is aware of the power of a number of perspectives. We look at (ABN 90 613 095 379) well-targeted verbal assault. the changing historical notion of what Editor In an age of cyber-bullying leading free speech entails, and how or even Tim Mendham to potentially tragic results, especially if it can be exercised. We look at the but not only among the young, the difficult responsibility of knowing how Editorial Board unbridled use of harmful words is to treat hate speech online – to pull Steve Roberts destructive and dangerous, and is in the switch on “free expression” when Eran Segev need of close attention and, at the very that expression is overtly designed to Martin Hadley least, moderation. encourage physical and mental hurt Design Services But it goes further than that. Those to others. We look at the legal status Nova Consulting P/L wielding the hurtful words often claim of free speech in Australia. And we the notion of “free speech” or “freedom look at the situation where Australian All correspondence to: of expression” as a right to use any universities hide behind “academic Australian Skeptics Inc words they care to. free speech” to avoid uncomfortable PO Box 20 Now, everyone should be aware decisions when their staff, researchers, Beecroft NSW 2119 that “free speech” comes with a cost, and lecturers use misinformation to Australia and apart from the considerable hurt spread a false-based polemic under Contact details it may cause, the cost is that “free the banner and imprimatur of those Tel: +61 (0)2 8094 1894 speech” is not free at all. institutions of learning. Mob: +61 (0)432 713 195 The standard refrain is that you can’t Freedom of speech used recklessly Fax: +61 (0)2 8088 4735 yell “Fire!” in a crowded theatre when and dishonestly is not about learning there is no fire. That particular concept but about persuading and inculcating [email protected] arose from a US Supreme Court beliefs with style over substance. www.skeptics.com.au decision in 1919 when the Court ruled Freedom of speech is regularly thrown unanimously that the First Amendment, at skeptics with the suggestion that The Skeptic is published four times though it protects freedom of we are limiting the natural right of per year by Australian Skeptics Inc. expression, does not protect dangerous individual to express themselves. Views and opinions expressed in articles speech. In the decision, Oliver Wendell But it is not that simple right that and letters in The Skeptic are those of Holmes wrote that no free speech skeptics object to. It is the misuse of the authors, and are not necessarily safeguard would cover someone “falsely that right that is of concern. Those who those of Australian Skeptics Inc. shouting fire in a theatre and causing say that limiting free speech is limiting Articles may be reprinted with a panic”. (The case in question did not freedom of thought are wrong. You permission and with due acknowledge- actually involve fires, theatres or general are entitled to your thoughts. You are ment to The Skeptic. panic. It instead concerned a man’s entitled to express your thoughts. But All effort is made to ensure correct conviction for protesting the First World you are not entitled to say whatever you acknowledgement of all contributions. War’s military draft.) like without consequence or rebuttal or We are happy to update credit when so Purveyors of misinformation of all criticism. And you are not entitled to informed. sorts regularly use the notion of free be heard or to be taken seriously. speech to justify their actions. Anti- Freedom of speech should be Editorial submission deadline vaccination proponents in particular protected, but it should not be outside for the next issue: cry foul whenever a proponent of that of debate or control. August 1, 2019 dangerous position is restricted in 4 - Tim Mendham, editor NEWS The Skeptic June 19 Around the traps ... SGU, Gerbic for Skepticon 2019 AUS: The Vic Skeptics have announced Universe: How to Know What’s Really that the entire team from the acclaimed Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake. international podcast The Skeptics’ Susan Gerbic’s current focus is Guide to the Universe (SGU), and working to expose people claiming Susan Gerbic, founder of Guerrilla to be clairvoyant mediums. She has Skepticism on Wikipedia (GSoW), will organised and participated in a number be a featured presenters at Skepticon of stings that reveal how so-called 2019, the Australian Skeptics National psychics source their information. Convention, in Melbourne this As founder and leader of GSoW, December. she has brought together more than opening event on the evening of SGU is one of the most respected 120 editors from around the world December 6. The convention itself podcasts on skepticism, critical thinking, – including Australia - to improve runs over the weekend December reason and the public understanding of skeptical content on Wikipedia. 7-8, with the gala dinner on Saturday, science. The first episode of the SGU Skepticon will be held at the December 7. podcast went online on May 4, 2005 and University of Melbourne from Full details are available from is today one of the most popular science December 6-8. the convention website (Skepticon. podcasts on iTunes. There will be a casual trivia night org). Tickets are now available from the The SGU members are also authors of prior to the convention on Thursday, website, with special earlybird tickets the bestselling The Skeptics’ Guide to the December 5, followed by the official available before June 30.
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