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Elizabeth Finkel is a wide-ranging science journalist and the author of Prove It! A Scientific Guide for the Post-truth Era

Alanta Colley is Creator of the debate series SciFight

Dave Farina is Creator of Professor Dave Explains

Melanie Trecek-King is Founder of Thinking is Power. She will soon publish A FIELD GUIDE TO MISINFORMATION

Jack the Insider and Joel Hill produce and present The Conditional Release Program podcast

David Vaux is an Honorary Fellow of The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

Tim Mendham is a Life Member of Australian Skeptics and a Fellow of the US-based Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

Paul Gallagher is the 2023 Australian Skeptic of The Year and vice-president of Australian Skeptics Victorian Branch Inc

Karen Bijkersma is a Melbourne-based researcher, writer and author of two published books

Professor Bayden Wood is Head of the Monash Biospectroscopy Group and Professor in Physical/Analytical chemistry

Adam Ford is an affiliate of the Institute for Ethical and Emerging Technologies

Tim Cook is the Director and founder of sustainability consultants, Lifecycles

Gary Bakker is a Clinical Psychologist with 40 years experience and 20,000 consultations

Liam Mannix and Signe Dean are two of the most widely read science journalists in Australia