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Ufos April Fools Drugs & Darwin SKEPTICISM . SCIENCE . SOCIETY Vol. 35, No 2. June 2015 ILLOGICAL! +UFOs April Fools Drugs & Darwin Australian Skeptics . www.skeptics.com.au Skeptic_TEST3Cover_Mar15.indd 1 1/05/2015 5:31 pm The Skeptic June 15 Skeptical Groups in Australia Australian Skeptics Inc – Eran Segev Gold Coast Skeptics – Lilian Derrick www.skeptics.com.au PO Box 8348, GCMC Bundall, QLD 9726 PO Box 20, Beecroft, NSW 2119 Tel: (07) 5593 1882; Fax: (07) 5593 2776 Tel: 02 8094 1894; Mob: 0432 713 195; Fax: (02) 8088 4735 [email protected] [email protected] Contact Lilian to find out news of more events. Sydney Skeptics in the Pub – 6pm first Thursday of each month at the Crown Hotel, cnr Goulburn and Elizabeth Streets in the city (meeting upstairs) Canberra Skeptics – Lauren Cochrane PO Box 555, Civic Square ACT 2608 Dinner meetings are held on a regular basis. http://www.canberraskeptics.org.au Tel: 0408 430 442 [email protected] (general inquiries), [email protected] (Canberra Skeptics in the Pub). Hunter Skeptics – John Turner A free monthly talk, open to the public, usually takes place Tel: (02) 4959 6286 [email protected] on the 1st Saturday of each month at the Lecture Theatre, Meetings are held at the Club Macquarie, Lake Road, Argenton CSIRO Discovery Centre, Clunies Ross Rd (check website for on the second Thursday of each month, excepting January, details of the current month’s talk). Skeptics in the Pub gather commencing 7.00pm, with a guest speaker or open discussion at 1pm on the third Sunday of each month at King O’Malleys on a given topic. Visitors welcome. Further information from the Pub in Civic. For up-to-date details : www.meetup.com/ secretary at: [email protected] SocialSkepticsCanberra/ Australian Skeptics (Vic) Inc – Chris Guest Skeptics SA – Laurie Eddie GPO Box 5166, Melbourne VIC 3001 52B Miller St Unley, SA 5061 Tel: 1 800 666 996 [email protected] Tel: (08) 8272 5881 [email protected] Skeptics’ Café – Third Monday of every month, with guest Thinking and Drinking - Skeptics in the Pub, on the third Friday speaker. La Notte, 140 Lygon St. Meal from 6pm, speaker at of every month. Contact [email protected] 8pm sharp. www.meetup.com/Thinking-and-Drinking-Skeptics-in-the-Pub/ calendar/10205558 or http://tinyurl.com/loqdrt More details on our web site www.skeptics.com.au/vic WA Skeptics – Dr Geoffrey Dean Borderline Skeptics Inc – Laurie Smith PO Box 466, Subiaco, WA 6904 RSB 11 Callaghhan’s Creek Boxes, via Tallangatta VIC 3701 Tel: 08 9341 4538 [email protected] Tel: (02) 6072 3415 Meetings are held quarterly on second Tuesday at Albury/ All meetings start at 7:30 pm at Grace Vaughan House, Wodonga on pre-announced dates and venues. 227 Stubbs Terrace, Shenton Park Further details of all our meetings and speakers are on our website at www.undeceivingourselves.org Queensland Skeptics Association Inc – Bob Bruce PO Box 3480, Norman Park QLD 4170; www.qskeptics.org.au Mob: 0419 778 308 [email protected] Hobart Skeptics – Leyon Parker PO Box 84, Battery Point TAS 7004 Meetings with a guest speaker on the last Monday of the Tel: 03 6225 3988 BH, 0418 128713 [email protected] month from February to November at the Redbrick Hotel, 81 Skeptics in the Pub - 2nd Monday each month, Annerley Road, South Brisbane. Dinner from 6pm, speaker 6.30pm, Ball & Chain restaurant, Salamanca Place at 7.30pm. Qskeptics eGroup - www.egroups.com/list/qskeptics Darwin Skeptics – Brian de Kretser Tel: (08) 8927 4533 [email protected] Volume 35 • No 2 June 15 Contents REPORTS 9 Online problems 9 Tim Mendham FEATURES Facing Up to Illogicality 13 Martin Bidgstock Cognitive dissonance 16 Bob Carroll 22 Confirmation bias 22 Peter Bowditch 16 Illogical words 23 13 Peter Bowditch 24 Online illogicality 24 Tyson Adams Fooled ya! 28 Museum of Hoaxes ARTICLES Tim Ferguson interview 32 34 Maynard 32 37 UFOs - the evidence 34 Vicente-Juan Olmos 38 UFOs - the brain 37 Sydney Bockner UFOs - the culture 38 Steve Roberts On with the show 42 Ross Balch 42 Drugs - use and abuse 44 44 Alex Wodak Darwin’s missing link 48 Tim Harding REGULARS Editorial 4 Around the Traps 5 Them! 10 54 The logical place 19 Puzzles page 27 Book reviews 54 56 What goes around 56 Letters 61 EDITORIAL From the Editor Life, but not as we know it here’d be a fair proportion of was cool. Tthe readers of this journal who Gene Roddenberry, who created would have Mr Spock of Star Trek Star Trek, was a skeptic and a fame as one of their favourite TV humanist, and won awards to prove it. characters. Even those who weren’t And I would suggest that Spock was ISSN 0726-9897 around for the original TV series – the character that Gene was closest Quarterly Journal of 1966-69 – still recognise the pointy too. It’s not by accident that Spock Australian Skeptics Inc ears, the upraised (again pointy) was the Starship Enterprise’s science (ABN 90 613 095 379) eyebrows, the sourpuss face and the officer. Editor often superior manner. But even logic has to be seen in Tim Mendham A main reason for his memorability a human context, at least until we is that Spock was just a good deal discover a purely Vulcan world. Editorial Board more interesting than the other fairly In the first Star Trek movie – Steve Roberts bland crew members; even Captain cleverly titled Star Trek, the Motion Eran Segev Kirk was a bit of a stuffed shirt, no Picture – the Enterprise comes across Martin Hadley matter how much he thought he was a character/creature/entity called Vejur, Barry Williams a ladies’ man. To be fair, the engineer which wants to travel to Earth to meet Design Services Scotty did have one great line of “the Creator” and join with him. He/ Nova Consulting P/L dialogue - “I’m givin’ it all she’s got, she/it was everything that Spock had Cap’n” - that is enough to keep him ever dreamed of becoming. And yet All correspondence to: at least near the forefront of Trekkie Vejur was barren. It would never feel Australian Skeptics Inc memories. pain. Or joy. Or challenge. It was so PO Box 20 But like Scottie, Spock also had completely and magnificently logical Beecroft NSW 2119 his one line; in fact, his was only one that its accumulation of knowledge Australia word: “Illogical”, sometimes preceded was totally useless. Contact details by “hmm”. Did Vejur give up its barren logic to Tel: +61 (0)2 8094 1894 As much as we might have found go for an emotional response? Did it Mob: +61 (0)432 713 195 Spock the cold intellectual, one who deny what made it overwhelming Fax: +61 (0)2 8088 4735 used his height to look down on in the first place? those who didn’t have Vulcan blood Logic is key to life, Vejur-version [email protected] (even if he himself only had a half- or whatever. We make logical decisions www.skeptics.com.au case load), he was still intriguing. And every day - which train to catch, his economical “Illogical” put a scythe which fridge to buy, whether to use The Skeptic is published four times through the emotion-driven reactions toothpaste or that funny stuff in the per year by Australian Skeptics Inc. of others. Yay, Spock, let ’em have it! jar. But we don’t use logic to fixate on Views and opinions expressed in articles So who won the day – logic or a hero, to love another, or to choose a and letters in The Skeptic are those of emotion? religion and a creator. There lies desire the authors, and are not necessarily Normally the emotional Kirk got more than logic. those of Australian Skeptics Inc. to sit in the big chair, and gave orders Logic is important. Logic is vital. Articles may be reprinted with to his crew of equally emotional But there’s a lot of people who give permission and with due acknowledge- officers. Kirk probably fired his phaser up on thinking logically in favour of ment to The Skeptic. more often (an obvious emotional choosing hopefully. How do you deal All effort is made to ensure correct reaction, even if it was only on stun). with them? How do you convince acknowledgement of all contributions. And Kirk got the girl, though he them? Perhaps it works best just by We are happy to update credit when so usually lost her as well. Kirk smiled. saying “Illogical” and being cool. At informed. Kirk got the glory. And Kirk would least you’ll be memorable, and find make fun of Spock’s lack of emotion. pride of place on someone’s bedroom Editorial submission deadline But we remember Spock. There’d wall. for the next issue: be more posters of Spock on bed- July 15, 2015 room walls than any of Kirk. Spock - Tim Mendham, editor 4 NEWS The Skeptic June 15 Around the traps ... Vaccination – no objections allowed AUSTRALIA: From 1 January further exemptions from any religious 2016, the Commonwealth government exemptions. will remove “conscientious objection” Immunisation requirements for the and religious reasons as an exemption payment of FTB Part A end-of-year category for child care payments (Child supplement will Care Benefit and Child Care Rebate) also be extended to and the Family Tax Benefit Part A end include children of from preventable of year supplement. all ages. Currently, diseases.” In a joint statement titled “No vaccination status While jab – no play and no pay for child care”, is only checked at vaccination rates the Prime Minister and the Minister ages 1, 2 and 5 years.
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