Seventeen years into the 21st century, and there appears to be no shortage of opportunistic quacks seeking to peddle and profit from their pseudoscientific claims – wifi ‘dangers’, the resurgence of ‘cupping’ therapy, and Paleo diets that refuse to return to the stone age. One-by-one, they get debunked as skeptics arise to administer scientific evidence and critical thinking. Yet every now and then it dawns on us that ‘one-by-one’ may not be enough, and that we ought to call on many of these great skeptics to meet at one time, in one place, with one common goal. Enter Skepticon Australia, the ideas festival for anybody and everybody who refuses to be fleeced by frauds of all sorts.