Writing

Comments and Articles

Commentaries and magazine articles I have written have appeared in the following publications.

Australian Doctor

• "Limited only by the laws of physics" (April 2003)

MamaMia

ABC Science

The Dubbo Weekender

Oberon Review

News Of The Area

• AMSAG Bulahdelah Rally 2020 (23/7/2020)

Nambucca Guardian

• AMSAG North Coast Rally 2020 (10/11/2020)

Oberon Matters

• In 2024 I started publishing a local news outlet. Everything there is written by me unless stated otherwise.

Articles published on my business blog
The blog was retired when I retired.
(This is an edited list. Some articles (like client newsletters) could be left behind.)

Articles on my personal blog
After a couple of Wordpress crashes followed by fruitless attempts to recover using any of
the three backup methods used I gave up and moved the content to here. I might try again one day.
(This is a edited list. Things that don't matter any more were left out.)

Introduction to skepticism (6/4/2012) Creating Distrust with Multi-level Marketing (7/4/2012) Can atheism be called a dangerous idea? (8/4/2012) A Diamond has bad luck (8/4/2012) The Global Atheist Convention (20/4/2012) Meryl Dorey is threatened? In her own mind, perhaps. (20/4/2012) Tim Bolen joins the world of fairies (22/4/2012) Like talking to a rock, I try to debate creationists (22/4/2012) Is "Moron" a chemical element? (23/4/2012) American Airlines gets it right (24/4/2012) Intimidation by morons. But it doesn't work. (27/4/2012) How many people do those doctors kill? (29/4/2012) Memo to Meryl Dorey at the Australian Vaccination Network (29/4/2012) Psychological testing (1/5/2012) ACCC tackles Homeopathy Plus! Whooping Cough claims (4/5/2012) The new physics (6/5/2012) Keeping your skepticism out of court – Me at SkeptiCamp Sydney 2011 (8/5/2012) Give me my word back. (9/5/2012) Theft of taxpayers' money (10/5/2012) Speaking of references and citations ... (11/5/2012) Pretending to be something you're not – Meryl Dorey's new blog (11/5/2012) Of meridians and mice (13/5/2012) Drug tales (16/5/2012) A hard day at the office (23/5/2012) Not quite "the" conversation (23/5/2012) Experimenting on skeptics (27/5/2012) Almost unimaginable filth (3/6/2012) DTaP – Don't Torture a Puppy. (8/6/2012) Science as she is spoke (11/6/2012) Free speech breaks out in Anti-vax Land? (19/6/2012) Fifteen advances in medicine. What has SCAM done? (21/6/2012) That dreadful carbon tax (29/6/2012) Taking one for the team – a night out with Scientology (5/7/2012) No, it's not the "God Particle" (8/7/2012) Psychic detectives are scum (14/7/2012) Burzynski's "research" – Part 1 (21/7/2012) Burzynski's "research" – Part 2 (21/7/2012) What's in a name: The anti-vaxxers reach a shocking new low (27/7/2012) See Shuzi. See Shuzi run. (7/8/2012) Vaccines (16/8/2012) Who has the backbone to stop this? (26/8/2012)

How to attack freedom of speech. (9/9/2012) Let's be balanced! (6/10/2012) Polio vaccination – thank you very much! (6/10/2012) I try not to know what just ain't so (8/11/2012) MindBodySpirit Festival 2012 (18/11/2012) Genetic modification (23/11/2012) The anti-vaccination lobby (26/11/2012) Confirmation bias, denialism and Morton's Demon. (30/11/2012) Chiropractic – quackery to the core (10/12/2012) Some good news about the Australian Vaccination Network. At last. (15/12/2012) Where can I buy food with extra gluten? (3/8/2013) Never let a chance go by. (17/8/2013) Let's spit on the memory of a great man (24/8/2013) Liver Transplant (5/9/2013) Free speech advocate hates free speech (6/9/2013) Meryl Dorey begging for money for lawyers (2010) (7/9/2013) The AVN lies about vaccines and aborted foetuses (8/9/2013) The AVN shows sympathy for women with breast cancer (9/9/2013) Meryl Dorey: Free speech hypocrite (10/9/2013) Meryl Dorey and the rape analogy (11/9/2013) Defending fraud: Meryl Dorey and Andrew Wakefield (12/9/2013) Meryl Dorey condones child abuse (13/9/2013) Meryl Dorey lies about SIDS and SBS. And me. (14/9/2013) The AVN – Lies, deception and threats (15/9/2013) Meryl misquotes – how unusual (16/9/2013) Media Release: Meryl Dorey and the AVN – Another loss in court (16/9/2013) Bitcoin Bollocks (16/11/2013) Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? (5/4/2014) Talk is cheap, but not always free (19/4/2014) I go trolling (21/4/2014) Let me do things my way, Apple. Please. (26/4/2014) A different debate (6/5/2014) Doing something useful (13/9/2014) Friday Shopping Poetry (11/1/2016) Oberon's safe children (25/2/2016) A fun day out (26/3/2016) Well, that was an experience (11/4/2016) Today's Oberon adventures (7/5/2016) Driving in the country (7/5/2016) Census paranoia (4/8/2016) I continued to write the occasional piece after the blog was abandoned How we do things here (11/5/2019)