The Skeptics SA guides to
all manner of things...
Over the years Skeptics SA has collected and written a number of brochures covering the skeptical position on a whole range of ideas. These have been on offer for free at our meetings and are presented here in two forms: as HTML pages for reading in a browser window, or as PDFs for download. (PDFs require the free Adobe reader)
| Description | HTML page | |
| Acupuncture Does this traditional Chinese treatment really work? |  |  |
| Alchemy Turning base metals into gold | | |
| Alien Encounters Are people really being abducted? | | |
| Atlantis The fabled lost continent | | |
| Australian Skeptics About the organisation | | |
| Automatic Writing “I wrote meaning sentences, without any intention or knowing what they were to be...” | | |
| Bach Flower Therapy Vitalism revisited | | |
| Bottled waters Purity, or publicity? | | |
| The Bermuda Triangle Mysterious disappearances | | |
| Breatharianism Can you really exist on just fresh air and sunlight? | | |
| Chakras Centres of life force? | | |
| Chiropractic Real treatment or quackery? | | |
| Clairvoyance Seeing... | | |
| Creation ‘science’ Is the earth really less than 10 000 years old? | | |
| Crop circles Mysterious patterns appearing in cereal crops | | |
| Crystal power Healing, energy... | | |
| Dihydrogen monoxide The dangers of a common substance | | |
| Feng-Shui The ancient Chinese art of placement | | |
| Firewalking Are your feet warm? | | |
| Glossolalia Speaking in tongues | | |
| Homeopathy ‘Dilutions of grandeur...’ | | |
| Horoscopes What do the stars have in store for you today? | | |
| Hypnosis ‘You will do as I tell you...’ | | |
| The Law of Karma A real law of the universe? | | |
| The Loch Ness Monster What’s lurking in the loch? | | |
| Mysterious energies Energies unknown to science | | |
| Naturopathy Is the‘ healing force’ real? | | |
| Nazca Lines What are those shapes in the desert? | | |
| Near-death experiences Are they real? | | |
| Nostradamus: 17 June 1999 Were we right to be afraid? | | |
| Nostradamus Did he really see the future? | | |
| Numerology The answer lies in the numbers | | |
| Ouija Yes, yes... | | |
| Psychics ‘Seeing’ the future... | | |
| Qakatak Dealing with ‘alternative’ medicine | | |
| Reincarnation What were you in a past life? | | |
| Reverse speech What’s hidden in the sounds? | | |
| Runes Viking wisdon or New Age scribbles? | | |
| Some common scams How to avoid wasting your money | | |
| Scepticism What does it mean to be a sceptic? | | |
| Scientific method Science versus pseudo-science | | |
| Seances Messages from the ‘other side’ | | |
| The Shroud of Turin The real burial cloth, or pious fraud? | | |
| Spontaneous human combustion Could you catch fire? | | |
| Stigmata The marks of the cross | | |
| Tarot Your life in the cards | | |
| UFOs What’s that in the sky? | | |
| Immanuel Velikovsky The fantastic history of the planets | | |
| Eric von Däniken Chariots of what? | | |
| Xenoglossia Speaking foreign tongues | | |
| Miracle at Yankalilla What’s that on the wall? | | |
New Zealand Skeptics brochures
Thanks to our colleagues across the Tasman we can offer their similar range of brochures.
| Description | |
| Acupuncture | |
| Astrology | |
| Bee products | |
| Biodynamics | |
| Channelling | |
| Creationism | |
| Critical thinking | |
| Echinacea | |
| Friday 13th | |
| Intelligent design | |
| Magnetic therapy products | |
| Neuro-Linguistic Programming | |
| Psychics, mediums, fortune-tellers | |
| UFOs and alien abduction | |
