PUBLICATIONS
Meddings, J. (June 2020). The antidote to arrogance: How to be wrong the right way. The Australian Rationalist, 117, pp.7-8. (Link)
Meddings, J. (11/02/20). Time to put politics aside and implement pill testing. Star Observer. (Link)
Meddings, J. (28/06/19). The real cost of denying people living with HIV permanent residency. HIV Australia. (Link)
Meddings, J. (Spring 2017). The double standard hurting our kids 'Down Under'. The Australian Rationalist, 106, pp.31-32. (Link)
Meddings, J. (Autumn 2017). Cut it out, not off. The Australian Rationalist, 104, p.7. (Link)
Meddings, J. (24/03/17). Jacqui Lambie gets everyday Aussies. The Turnbull Government does not. The Huffington Post. (Link)
Meddings, J. (19/12/16). Dutton needs to sing a different tune this Christmas. The Huffington Post. (Link)
Fotinopoulos, C., & Meddings, J. (15/09/16). Why walking out on bigots is a bad idea. The Sydney Morning Herald. (Link)
Meddings, J. (Winter 2016). The race delusion.The Australian Rationalist, 101, pp.7-8 (Link)
Meddings, J. (08/08/15). A tale of two cutting cultures. Rationalist.com.au (Link)
Meddings, J. (Winter 2015). Talking about the end: how Epicurus and Christopher Hitchens faced death. The Australian Rationalist, 97, pp.29-31. (Link)
Meddings, J. (Spring 2013). Nonoverlapping magisteria: why Gould got it wrong. The Australian Rationalist, 90, pp.19-20. (Link)
Meddings, J. (Mar 2013). Rubber stamping the destruction of the Great Barrier Reef. The Ecologist. (Link)
SELECT ARTICLES & ESSAYS
“Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence.”
- Christopher Hitchens -
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Marschang, R., Meddings, J.I. & Ariel, E. (In print). Viruses of reptiles. In Studies in Viral Ecology, Volume 3.
Ariel, E., Elliot, E., Meddings, J.I., Miller, J., Santos, M.B. & Owens, L. (2017). Serological survey of Australian native reptiles for exposure to ranavirus. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 126: 173-183.
Evans, B., Meddings, J., et al. (2016). Heinemann Biology 2, Fifth Edition, VCE Units 3 & 4. Pearson Australia. (Link)
Cotton, C., Meddings, J., et al. (2016). Heinemann Biology 1, Fifth Edition, VCE Units 1 & 2. Pearson Australia. (Link)
Meddings, J.I., Owens, L., Burgess, G., & Ariel, E. (2014). Revelations in reptilian and avian immunology: a proposed evolutionary selection pressure for truncated IgY. International Journal of Immunological Studies, 2(1): 29-41. (Link)
Meddings, J.I. (2011). Revelations in reptilian immunology: serology and sources of variation. Honours thesis, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia. (Link)
“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.”
- Joseph Joubert -
POLICY PAPERS
Fairchild, J., Meddings, J., Ball, J. et al. (2019). Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System: Toward a mental health system that works for LGBTIQ people. Rainbow Health Victoria, Thorne Harbour Health, Switchboard Victoria. Sub No. 0002.0028.0150. (Link)
Meddings, J. & Wisdom, T. (2017). Genital Autonomy. Rationalist Society of Australia. (Link)
Meddings, J. (09/02/16). Letter to the Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on asylum seekers. Rationalist Society of Australia. (Link)
Fotinopoulos, C., & Meddings, J. (2015). Submission to the Victorian Parliament's Legal and Social Issues Committee on End of Life Choices. Rationalist Society of Australia, Sub No. 671. (Link)
Meddings, J. (2012). Senate submission: the effectiveness of threatened species and ecological communities' protection in Australia. Sub No. 58. (Link)