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  • Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Health Practitioners Competency Assurance Act

    Submission to the Ministry of Health on the matter of the proposal that Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) become a regulated profession under the Health Practitioners Competency Assurance Act (HPCAA) 2003. 1. Is TCM a health service, as defined by the HPCA Act? In the proposal, the applicants have defined TCM: as an occupation with a…

    NZ Skeptics

    September 1, 2011
    Submissions
  • Acupuncture

    Acupuncture

    If acupressure works without puncturing a patient, is it not then unethical for an acupuncturist to use invasive and potentially dangerous needles? The US National Council Against Health Fraud has concluded the following: acupuncture is an unproven modality of treatment its theory and practice are based on primitive and fanciful concepts of health and disease…

    NZ Skeptics

    December 10, 2010
    Resources
  • Magnetic Therapy Products

    Anyone looking for a health enhancing effect from a shoe magnet might just as well put the fortune from a Chinese fortune cookie in their shoe. It will be equally effective. John W. Farley, Ph.D., Professor of Physics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas There is no scientific basis to conclude that small, static…

    NZ Skeptics

    December 3, 2010
    Resources
  • Friday the 13th

    Things to do Next time Friday the 13th rolls around, keep a journal for a week beforehand and a week afterwards noting incidents you think represent good luck and bad luck on a daily basis. Is there any significant difference on Friday the 13th? Think about your reactions – are you more conscious of what…

    NZ Skeptics

    December 3, 2010
    Resources
  • Echinacea

    As with many herbs, it is unsettled whether echinacea is useful. Also, many herbal products are not standardized as to what is in them, so even if something is useful, you can’t be sure that the quality control or dosage that makes it useful is in the bottle. The FDA does not regulate that. Some…

    NZ Skeptics

    December 3, 2010
    Resources
  • Colloidal Silver

    I thought the [colloidal silver] promoters were ignorant people who had made a terrible mistake, but when I contacted several of them and discovered that they were not interested in hearing my story, they would not change their ads and they refused to include my negative anecdotes along with their positive ones, I knew that…

    NZ Skeptics

    December 3, 2010
    Resources
  • Channeling

    Channeling

    Penny Torres was, before her decision to become a channeller, a housewife from Los Angeles. The “wisdom” she offers to her followers is precisely what one would expect from such a source. It was quite disconcerting…to see the blind acceptance the believers gave to Ms Torres’ pronouncements on pap and their conviction that what she…

    NZ Skeptics

    December 3, 2010
    Resources
  • UFOs and Aliens

    Things to do Try faking a UFO photograph and show it to friends to see their reaction. Spend an evening near an airport and watch the lights in the sky to see how hard it can be to judge size and distance. How is the evidence for UFOs or alien abductions any better than the…

    NZ Skeptics

    November 17, 2010
    Resources
  • Psychics and the Police

    Sensing Murder might be the most important TV show of our times. It all boils down to this: the show is either a colossal fraud, an entertainment conspiracy the size of Watergate, or it’s the most amazing and incontrovertible evidence of paranormal activity ever recorded. And it has to be one or the other. It…

    NZ Skeptics

    November 17, 2010
    Resources
  • Psychics

    If there was something to psychics tapping into some form of spiritual after-life, or even a mass consciousness that extruded back from the future, then anyone with a pinch of psychic power should have warned Diana, Princess of Wales, not to get into that Mercedes. After all, that death had HUGE emotional ramifications that should…

    NZ Skeptics

    November 17, 2010
    Resources
  • Homeopathy

    If homeopathy works, then obviously the less you use it, the stronger it gets. So the best way to apply homeopathy is to not use it at all. Phil Plait Water has memory! And while its memory of a long lost drop of onion juice is Infinite It somehow forgets all the poo it’s had…

    NZ Skeptics

    November 17, 2010
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  • Critical Thinking

    I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. Richard Feynman Just because Einstein was controversial does not mean that anyone who is controversial must be another Einstein. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Keep asking questions until you know, or you know that you don’t know!…

    NZ Skeptics

    November 17, 2010
    Resources
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