The Skeptic Zone #833 - 22.September.2024

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Introduction
Richard Saunders

00:08:50

You Can Count on Adrienne

This week Adrienne catches up with Melanie Trecek-King from the website Thinking is Power. An interesting discussion about skeptical outreach and what value is the word skeptic after all?

https://thinkingispower.com

0:23:26

2024 Bent Spoon Award

Tim Mendham and Richard Saunders discuss the contenders for this year's Bent Spoon Award, awarded annually at the Australian Skeptics National Convention for the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of pseudoscientific or paranormal piffle.

https://www.skeptics.com.au/2024-bent-spoon-nominations-open

0:28:34

A Dive into a Trove

A wander through the decades of digitised Australian newspapers on a search for references to Snake Oil.

1935.06.02 - The Sunday Times - Perth WA
1935.08.31 - The Australian Women's Weekly
1954.04.09 - Morning Bulletin - Rockhampton Qld
2013.05.19 - The Daily Telegraph

http://www.trove.nla.gov.au