Articles and essays

Articles published in the Skeptic, the journal of the Australian Skeptics

• Homeopathy - all the idiocy that fits (Vol 21:2, Winter 2001)
• Fighting the Medi-scams (Vol 21:3, Spring 2001)
• Ignorance is Strength (Doublethink in quackery - Vol 21:4, Summer 2001)
• The mass media does its job. Not. (Vol 22:3, Spring 2002)
• Dante and Virgil descend to Hurstville (A night out with the anti-vaccination liars - Vol 22:4, Summer 2002)
• How many people do those doctors kill? (Vol 22:4, Summer 2002)
• Quackery (Presentation given at a dinner held by the Australian Skeptics in February 2003, published in the Skeptic, Vol 23:2, Winter 2003)
• Pan Pharmaceuticals - if it ducks like a quack (Vol 23:2, Winter 2003)
• Quackery Down Under (A talk given at James Randi's Amazing Meeting, published in the Skeptic, Vol 24:1, Autumn 2004)
• Pasteur's Last Words (Vol 24:3, Spring 2004)
• You could just die laughing (Presentation given to the Australian Skeptics 2004 Convention, published in the Skeptic, Vol 24:4, Summer 2004)
• The Myth of "The Myth of Mental Illness" (Vol 27:1, Autumn 2007)

Articles published in Australasian Science

• Truth and Fiction (Comparing quackery to reality - April 2003)
• The Dietary Supplement Experiment Begins (June 2003)
• Is that a cart or a barrow that horse is pushing? (January/February 2004)
• How not to do science (Everyone retracts except Dr Wakefield - April 2004)
• True Believers (The persistence of inaccuracy in pseudomedicine - September 2004)
• Psychological testing (October 2005)
• Still Deluded After All These Years (The persistence of homeopathy - July 2006)

Article published in Australian Doctor

• “Limited only by the laws of physics” (Magical quackery machines - April 2003)

Other essays and articles. Most of these were first published in the online magazine, The Millenium Project

• Vaccines
• Three Dead Children. (A comparison of the reactions of "alternative medicine" supporters to the deaths of three children.)
• Multiple Chemical Stupidity
• Homeopathy - how could any honest person sell this rubbish?
• Targeting the susceptible
• Polypharmacy
• Faith Healer? Fraud! (A TV station "investigates")
• Watch out, doctors, the quacks are after your patients!
• Don't hold your breath waiting for change (Conference presentation)
• Book review: The Cancer Cure That Worked! by Barry Lynes
• Dangerous Practitioners: Supplementary, Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Conference presentation)
• Book review: How to Poison Your Spouse the Natural Way by Jay D. Mann PhD