Category: News
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Skeptical Thoughts on the Radio!
Graeme Hill’s Weekend Variety Wireless radio show on RadioLive is a Sunday night fixture where two prominent skeptics, Siouxsie Wiles and Mark Honeychurch chat about current skeptical topics and events. Sunday, June 25th 2018 Sunday, June 18th 2018 Sunday, June 11th 2018 Sunday, June 4th 2018 Sunday, May 28th 2018 Sunday, May 21st 2018 Sunday,…
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Skeptical Thoughts
Our current chair, Mark Honeychurch, has been filling in for Siouxsie Wiles recently on Graeme Hill’s Weekend Variety Wireless show on RadioLive. He’s had fun chatting with Graeme on the Skeptical Thoughts segment, and has talked about rugby injuries, therapeutic paint, the igNobels and the Republican Primary, amongst other topics. Here are links to the…
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Pharmacy Council Submission
We are looking for skeptics around the country to help the NZ Skeptics Society gather evidence for a submission we will be making to the Pharmacy Council of New Zealand. We need people to visit pharmacies around the country and gather information about how homeopathy is sold and promoted. Unfortunately, we have limited time to…
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The “Law” of Attraction
Our very own Michael Edmonds (one of the Society’s media spokespeople) features in a short documentary about Dean “Deano” Harrison’s claims that you can make positive things happen merely by willing them. The description for the documentary on YouTube says: The Law of Attraction: one simple philosophy which Dean Harrison believes has influenced his repeated…
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NZ Skeptics on The Skeptic Zone
Last week our chair, Mark Honeychurch, chatted with Richard Saunders on episode 334 of the Australian Skeptics’ “Skeptic Zone” podcast (Aired March 15). Richard pre-emptively introduced Mark with statements like “yes those New Zealanders are just as skeptical as…anybody else”. Richard asked Mark about the history of the movement in New Zealand and “what’s going…
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New Journal, Membership, Aliens
Hello there, The latest issue of the NZ Skeptic is heading to the letterboxes of financial members, packed full of the intriguing, the informative and the infuriating. It’s a whole new look for the journal, along with our new website and brand-new logo. Now is the time to subscribe or renew your subscription to the Society.…
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Uncensored “Roswell Video” compared to “Alien Autopsy” movie
NZ’s Uncensored Magazine has proclaimed “ROSWELL ORIGINAL FOOTAGE OF DEAD ALIEN REDISCOVERED BY UNCENSORED EDITOR”: The NZ Skeptics heard that it was actually just footage from an Ant and Dec movie, so we decided to put together a side by side comparison. You can check out the original footage from Uncensored Magazine, read more from…
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Stephen Meyer vs. Alison Campbell
Hear Stephen Meyer’s “evidence” for Intelligent Design and Evolutionary Biologist Alison Campbell’s reply to his assertions that God Dunnit.
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1080 – What’s all the Fuss?
The 2009 Bent Spoon Award went to the anti-1080 “Poisoning Paradise” film, which engendered a great deal of response, some of it valedictory, some of it vituperative. More on the Bent Spoon More on the reactions This was followed by a report in the Herald on Sunday that stated “tests” by an electroacupuncture machine had…
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Ken Ring
Ken Ring was once a maths teacher with a good line in puzzles and conundrums. As such, many years ago he was the opening entertainment act for an NZ Skeptics Conference (NB not a keynote speaker, as has sometimes been claimed). More recently, he has gained notoriety for his claims to be able to provide…
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Vicki Hyde on CTV’s Lynched
Is Homeopathy doing more harm than good? Chris Lynch speaks to Vicki Hyde, spokeswoman for the NZ Skeptics. For the first time on local television, Hyde exposes the process of homeopathy.
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Siouxsie Wiles on Breakfast TV talking about Homeopathy
Microbiologist Dr Siouxsie Wiles reacts to a petition calling for Homeopathy to be available in West Africa to help with the recent Ebola outbreak.