I love writing and wish I had more time to do it. I wrote a book about the Internet published in 1997 which sold more than 20,000 copies (it's now out of print - a new edition is planned). I am working on two books which I hope will be published during 2012 and 2013, one about alternative medicine and the other about uncritical thinking.

The two books in development mentioned above were nominated for the 2004 Reed New Holland Eureka Science Book Prize. Also, a collection of my articles published in the twelve months prior to May 2004 was nominated as a body of work for the 2004 Australian Government Eureka Prize for Science Journalism. Unfortunately I wasn't a winner, but there is always another year. The Eureka Prizes are a project of the Australian Museum and are Australia's premier science awards. You can read more about the Eureka Prizes here.

I have another book in the early development stage. It will exploit my experience over many years of management and consulting to highlight some of the things that good business managers don't do.

I'm a Freelance Pro member of the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance, which means I have a Code of Ethics to comply with. If you would like me to write for your publication or media outlet please use the email link at the bottom of the page to contact me.

There are some commentaries and magazine articles I have written. Some of these have appeared in the following publications. (You can see the articles ordered by publication here.)

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  The journal of the Australian Skeptics
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  Australasian Science
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  Australian Doctor
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  Issues
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  Yahoo!7 News Blog
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  MamaMia
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  ABC Science

All the links below go to the online magazine The Millenium Project. (Some articles appear in more than one category.)

Things I think about.
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Health Fraud

• The 90th Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle
• Anatomy of a quack
• Anti-quackery Committee
• Blackmore's and the Pharmacy Guild - a marriage made in Hell
• Bogus Challenges
• CAM or SCAM?
• Cancer 100 Challenge
• Checking the facts (AS)
• Checking the facts (Y)
• Chiropractic - quackery to the core
• Citation Cold Case
• Confirmation bias, denialism and Morton’s Demon (AS)
• Confirmation bias, denialism and Morton’s Demon. (DR)
• CRA vs Iridology
• Damaging autism paper retracted
• Dangerous Practitioners - Supplementary, Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• Debating the undebatable
• Devastation in Haiti
• The Dietary Supplement Experiment Begins
• Don't hold your breath waiting for change
• Dr Andrew Wakefield
• Dr Sandra Trademark
• Drug interactions
• Faith healer? Fraud!
• Fighting the Medi-scams
• Getting risk wrong (I)
• Homeopathy - all the idiocy that fits
• Homeopathy - How can honest people sell this rubbish?
• Homeopathy – so diluted there’s no evidence left.
• Homeopathy watered down?
• Homeopathy: How can it be sold?
• How many people do those doctors kill?
• How not to do science - Everyone retracts except Dr Wakefield
• Ignorance is Strength
• Is that a cart or a barrow that horse is pushing?
• Let's be balanced!
• "Limited only by the laws of physics"
• Magic wands (AS)
• Magic wands (Y)
• The mass media does its job. Not.
• Misremembering the past
• Mobile phones are frying our brains.
• The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
• Multiple Chemical Stupidity?
• The Myth of "The Myth of Mental Illness"
• Obituary - Stephen Jay Gould
• Of meridians and mice
• Organic food. What’s in it for me?
• The outer limits of woowoo
• Pan Pharmaceuticals - if it ducks like a quack
• Pasteur's Last Words
• Peer review - Close enough is better than nothing.
• Polypharmacy
• Professor Boyd Haley
• Progress? We don’t need no stinking progress.
• Quackery
• Quackery Down Under
• The Ragtag Posse of Snake-oil Vigilantes
• Still Deluded After All These Years
• Targeting the susceptible
• Theatre of the absurd
• Then it came for me
• Three Dead Children
• Tim O'Ranter - Patrick Timothy Bolen
• Transcript of the murder of Candace Newmaker
• Treating the symptoms
• True Believers
• Truth and Fiction
• A very profitable trick
• Watch out, doctors, the quacks are after your patients!
• We live in fearful times.
• What science isn’t.
• When religion and medicine disagree
• Who has the backbone to stop this?
• Will your smart meter make you less smart?
• World Homeopathy Awareness Week
• You could just die laughing

Racism

• Subtle Racism

Religion

• Acts of God?
• An atheist at Christmas
• "Blasphemy" comes before "Science" in the dictionary
• Bogus Challenges
• Can atheism be called a dangerous idea?
• Creation/Evolution Debate
• Creation/Evolution Debate - Part 1
• Creation/Evolution Debate - Part 2
• Creation/Evolution Debate - Part 3
• Creationists coming! Think of the children!
• Devastation in Haiti
• Don’t make any plans for Sunday. Jesus was wrong!
• Earthquakes and God
• The end is nigh! Repent!
• The end of the world. Really?
• The end of the world. Really? (ABC)
• Faith healer? Fraud!
• Ian Plimer was right. They do tell lies for God
• Knowing things that just ain’t so
• Literature v Literalism
• Literature v Literalism (Y)
• My patience is tried
• A night out with the creationists
• Polite request to creationists
• Psychic predictions for 2011
• Someone gets upset
• We have a saint!
• We’re still here.
• We're off to see the Benny, The wonderful Benny of God
• When religion and medicine disagree
• Why am I a skeptic?

Creationism

• 150 years since the death of creationism
• "Blasphemy" comes before "Science" in the dictionary
• Bogus Challenges
• Creation/Evolution Debate
• Creation/Evolution Debate - Part 1
• Creation/Evolution Debate - Part 2
• Creation/Evolution Debate - Part 3
• Creationists coming! Think of the children!
• Ian Plimer was right. They do tell lies for God
• Knowing things that just ain’t so
• Literal interpretation of the Bible
• Literature v Literalism
• Literature v Literalism (Y)
• The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
• A night out with the creationists
• Obituary - Stephen Jay Gould
• Polite request to creationists
• Science books? We don't need no stinkin' science books
• What science isn’t.

Anti-vaccination liars

• The 90th Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle
• Answer me this, anti-vaccinators
• The Anti-vaccination Lobby
• Anti-vaccination propaganda at the Folk Festival
• Anti-vaccinators demand the impossible
• Anti-vaccinators want to deceive
• Asses and the law
• Banned from the Australian Vaccination Network's mailing list
• Bogus Challenges
• Censorship and intolerance at iVillage
• Checking the facts (AS)
• Checking the facts (Y)
• Child Abuse
• Chiropractic - quackery to the core
• Damaging autism paper retracted
• Dante and Virgil descend to Hurstville
• Death By Lethal Vaccine Injection
• Debating the undebatable
• Devastation in Haiti
• Dr Andrew Wakefield
• Final jab for the anti-vaccination lobby
• Getting risk wrong (I)
• The girl in the iron lung.
• The good news keeps on coming
• How not to do science - Everyone retracts except Dr Wakefield
• If it's good enough for doctors, it's good enough for liars
• Liars just can't help themselves
• Lies about abortions and vaccines
• Lies about vaccines and foetuses
• Lying with the truth
• Mark and David Geier
• Pictures of children suffering from "harmless" diseases
• Polio vaccination – thank you very much! (MM)
• Professor Boyd Haley
• The real truth about vaccinations
• See how "harmless" measles is.
• Tim O'Ranter - Patrick Timothy Bolen
• Vaccines
• We live in fearful times.
• What’s in a name: The anti-vaxxers reach a shocking new low

Pseudoscience

• The 90th Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle
• Anatomy of a quack
• The Bear's Progress - SkeptoBear's 2004 World Tour
• The Bermuda Triangle
• Beware! Are invisible rays frying your brain?
• Blackmore's and the Pharmacy Guild - a marriage made in Hell
• CAM or SCAM?
• Checking the facts (AS)
• Checking the facts (Y)
• A close run thing at the chemist
• Coincidences
• Confirmation bias, denialism and Morton’s Demon (AS)
• Confirmation bias, denialism and Morton’s Demon. (DR)
• Debating the undebatable
• Denialists ignore the science
• The end is nigh! Repent!
• The end of the world. Really?
• The end of the world. Really? (ABC)
• Faith, Fact and Fiction : The demarcation of science and non-science
• Getting risk wrong (AS)
• Getting risk wrong (I)
• Give me my word back.
• Have you heard the one about ... ?
• Homeopathy – so diluted there’s no evidence left.
• I try not to know what just ain’t so
• Knowing things that just ain’t so
• Lying with the truth
• Magic wands (AS)
• Magic wands (Y)
• The Magical Mystery Museum
• Misremembering the past
• Mobile phones are frying our brains.
• The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
• Multiple Chemical Stupidity?
• My patience is tried
• Obituary - Stephen Jay Gould
• Organic food. What’s in it for me?
• Pasteur's Last Words
• Peer review - Close enough is better than nothing.
• The Power of Coincidence
• Professor Boyd Haley
• Progress? We don’t need no stinking progress.
• Psychic parasites
• Psychic predictions for 2011
• "Psychic" Predictions for 2010
• Psychics predict the future. Do they?
• Psychological testing
• Publication in the peer-reviewed literature
• Science as she is spoke
• The science goes round and round, and it comes out here
• Someone gets upset
• Still Deluded After All These Years
• That dreadful carbon tax
• True Believers
• Understand the numbers? Don’t count on it.
• A very profitable trick
• We live in fearful times.
• We’re still here.
• What science isn’t.
• What's that up in the sky? Is it a …?
• Where were you 40 years ago?
• Why am I a skeptic?
• Will your smart meter make you less smart?
• The WooWoo Credo

Multi-Level Marketing, Pyramid Schemes, Scams and Frauds

• Advertisements
• Creating Distrust with Multi-level Marketing
• Doing the sums with MLM
• MLM adventures
• Multi-level Marketing Doesn't Add Up
• Multi-Level Marketing spam collection
• The Multi-Level Mirage
• The Ratbags Dream
• Thoughts about multi-level marketing

Other topics

• The 9/11 conspiracies
• Free speech
• Full Canvas Jacket
• Introduction to skepticism
• Jack Shitman gives me an award
• Mary Daly and Feminist Nonsense (a tautology)
• MindBodySpirit Festival, November 1999
• Penis enlargement spam collection
• Y2K - Is there still time to panic?
• Y2K - What went wrong?

Book reviews (these links will take you to The Millenium Project.)

• The Australian Book Of Atheism by Warren Bonnett (Ed)
• The Cancer Cure That Worked! by Barry Lynes
• The Case for a Creator by Lee Strobel
• The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• The End of Faith : Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
• Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science by Martin Gardner
• Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore (Film)
• Has Science Found God? The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe by Victor Stenger
• How to Poison Your Spouse the Natural Way by Jay Mann
• Masters of Deception by Eric Scheibeler
• Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction by Charles Wynn and Arthur Wiggins
• The Root of All Evil? by Richard Dawkins (TV program)
• Science and Religion : Are They Compatible? by Paul Kurtz, Barry Karr and Ranjit Sandhu (Editors)
• The Sins of Scripture by John Shelby Spong

• Making Enemies on the Net (October 1999)
• Awards Presentation - Information Technology - Richmond College of TAFE (May 2001)
• The ACS - Broad and Deep (July 2001)
• Software Quality (November 2001)
• A Different Internet Security Problem - harassment, stalking and identity theft (September 2002)

Columns written a few years ago for the Sydney Business Review

• Superhypeway - Separating the chaff from the chaff (December 1994)
• Bankers - The Mad Banker's Tea Party (February 1995)
• Economists - A Different Universe (March 1995)
• Superannuation - Now you see it, then you won't! (April 1995)
• Tax advice - Spend More to Save More (June 1995)
• Computerspeak -Interpreters wanted? (July 1995)
• Conical Marketing - The paradigm for the 90s, and definitely not pyramid selling (August 1995)
• The way we were - Windows 95 reminds us how little has changed (September 1995)
• Have I got a job for you? - Money for jam in the recruitment business (October 1995)
• Parramatta - Foundation Day 1995 inspires some thoughts about the city (November 1995)
• Avoid clichés like the plague! - Advice for tabloid and TV journalists (December 1995)
• Snake oil alert - Internet experts sprout like mushrooms (August 1996)
• Intranets - More computer stuff you keep getting told you must have (November 1996)