Skeptical Thoughts

Mark Honeychurch

An image of dozens of dead kiwis was recently used by an anti 1080 Facebook activist group, New Zealand's Not Clean Green, to show that the poison is harming local wildlife. However, a group called ... (158 words)

Category: News

- pseudoscience - 1080 -
Mark Honeychurch

Valerie Todd, an osteopath, has been found guilty by the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal of performing acupuncture on three patients in Nelson in 2014 without the required qualifications, ... (121 words)

Category: News

- pseudoscience - acupuncture -
Mark Honeychurch

Family first have confused correlation and causation in a recent report, and stated that unmarried couples are a major cause of child poverty. Charles Waldergrave from The Family Centre said the ... (264 words)

Category: News

- religion - conservatism -
Mark Honeychurch

Rush Limbaugh, US radio talk show host, has used a conversation about Harambe the gorilla to argue that evolution does not work. Audio clip available above, from 1:48 to 2:33: "A lot of people think ... (183 words)

Category: News

- religion - creationism -