The NZ Skeptics will demonstrate the power of physics over the mind, with a firewalk planned as part of their annual conference in Auckland this August.
Continue readingNZ Skeptics Invite Homeopaths to Join Campaign
The New Zealand Skeptics are inviting homeopaths to join their call for pharmacies to stop selling homeopathic products, as both groups are opposed to the practice, albeit for different reasons.
Continue readingHomeopaths Admit Expensive Concoctions Just Water
A public mass overdose of homeopathic remedies has forced the New Zealand Council of Homeopaths to admit openly that their products do not contain any “material substances”. Council spokeswoman Mary Glaisyer admitted publicly that “there´s …
Continue readingMass Overdose Planned
On January 30, a concerted global mass overdose will take place, but no-one will die because the “medication” of choice will be homeopathic. Homeopathic medicine consists of water or water dripped onto sugar tablets; the UK-based 1023 campaign …
Continue readingPoisons Story – April Fool Comes Early for Herald
A claim that you can detect poisons in Haruaki Gulf marine life via a discredited electro-acupuncture technique has been swallowed whole cloth by the New Zealand Herald.
Continue readingSkeptics Slam Scare Stories
A documentary which highlights the “distress, cruelty, horror, ecocide, cover-ups and contamination” involved in 1080-based pest control has won the Bent Spoon brickbat from the NZ Skeptics for 2009.
Continue readingSkeptics Conference Will Test Assumptions
Economics really is scientific. Circumcision can cure Aids. You can photograph ghosts. Yeah right….. These topics and others will provide food for thought at the annual NZ Skeptics Conference, being held in Wellington over September 25- 27. “We look …
Continue readingSkeptics Give Police Thumbs Down
The NZ Skeptics Bent Spoon for the most irresponsibly gullible statement in the media in the past year goes to Detective Senior Sergeant Ross Levy of the New Zealand Police Force for promoting psychics as “just another tool” in the investigative policing …
Continue readingUFOs to Hit Hamilton!
UFOs will soon be seen in Hamilton – that´s the confident prediction of the NZ Skeptics Society. The Society will kick off its annual three-day conference with its usual light-hearted launch on Friday 26 September. This year conference attendees will …
Continue readingTV3 gains Bent Spoon and Bravo Awards
In the first double-header of its kind, one organisation has won both brickbats and plaudits from the NZ Skeptics in its 2007 Bent Spoon and Bravo Awards for gullibility and critical thinking respectively – TV3 News and Current Affairs.
Continue reading2007 Skeptics Conference
Friday September 21 7pm Opening social gathering Saturday 22-Sunday 23 presentations from 9am Magic, mystery and medical issues discussed and debated. More information: http://skeptics.org.nz
Continue reading2007 Skeptics Conference
Magic, mystery and medicine make up a potent mix at this year´s Annual Skeptics Conference, being held at St Andrews College, Christchurch, over 21-23 September.
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