The Skeptic Zone #791 - 3.December.2023

<table border="0" summary="new show" width="100%" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="4"> <tbody> <tr bgcolor="#F8F8FF"> <td valign="top"><em>0:00:00</em> <div><strong>Introduction</strong><br /> Richard Saunders</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <hr align="center" size="1" width="75%" /></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#F8F8FF"> <td valign="top"><em>0:05:24</em> <div><strong>Bend Spoon 2023</strong><br /> <br /> Walkley winner Coulthart wins 2023 Bent Spoon for UFOs!<br /> <br /> Ross Coulthart, who has won five Walkley awards (including the top Gold Walkley) during his career as a journalist, can now add another prize to the list - the Australian Skeptics' Bent Spoon award. Also we report on some of the more positive awards.<br /> <br /> <a href= "http://www.skeptics.com.au/">http://www.skeptics.com.au</a></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <hr align="center" size="1" width="75%" /></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#F8F8FF"> <td valign="top"><em>0:11:44</em> <div><strong>Australian Skeptics Newsletter</strong><br /> <br /> What skeptical news has caught the eye of Tim Mendham this week?<br /> Read by <strong>Adrienne Hill</strong>.<br /> <br /> <a href= "http://www.skeptics.com.au/">http://www.skeptics.com.au</a></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <hr align="center" size="1" width="75%" /></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#F8F8FF"> <td valign="top"><em>0:23:18</em> <div><strong>The upside of DOOMSDAY</strong><br /> <br /> Report about a group promising salvation in the face of doom, and your very own Star Trek replicator! The claims of the creative society come straight out of science fiction.</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <hr align="center" size="1" width="75%" /></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#F8F8FF"> <td valign="top"><em>0:32:42</em> <div><strong>Round Table - Part #3</strong><br /> <br /> Fraser Cain from Universe Today joins Brian Dunning from the Skeptoid podcast and Richard Saunders from the Skeptic Zone podcast to talk about the skeptical world and related issues.<br /> <br /> This week the three science commun