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NZ Skeptics - 1st May 1987

Author: NZ Skeptics
1 February 1988 - Approx. 13 min read
Peter Dady, MD, MRCP, Director, Oncology Department, Wellington Hospital.
1 February 1988 - Approx. 1 min read
A flying competition with a difference will be held in Auckland at the weekend.
1 February 1988 - Approx. 1 min read
Didi you know that the 'principle' of water-divining was used to find people buried under snow? I did not, until I read about it in Nature (letter from Rolf Manne, of Pergen, Norway, in the issue of 4 December, 1986). This practice has been foisted on the Mountain Rescue Organisation of the Norwegian Red Cross, and is also taught in the Norwegian Army.
1 February 1988 - Approx. 2 min read
With a nearly firm programme in hand, the 1987 NZCSICOP conference is shaping up to be a remarkable event. The presentations will cover a wide range of arresting topics, from the dangers of alternative medicine and fraudulent faith healing, through the connections between paranormal belief and the decline of religion, to astrology, creationism, the not-so-mysterious Shroud of Turin, and more.