Articles from 2017
February
- Ex fraudster released early trying alternative cancer treatment
- Ricky Gervais talks about science vs belief
- Scientology out on the streets in Grafton
- Homeopathic Teething Tablets linked to US deaths for sale in NZ
- Strange lottery "tactic" - buying multiple tickets with the same numbers
- Vaxxed movie showing in Auckland in April
- Whales were stranded by "weather modification" technology
March
April
May
June
- Don't put ground up wasp's nest in your vagina
- Nice article about Dave Hansford and 1080
- Robert Bigelow believes aliens are on earth
- USA "pulls out" of the Paris Climate Accord
- Apparently I need a colonic
- Aussie shows how lax sham journals can be
- Credulous alt-med article on Radio NZ
- Auckland Church Promoting Magical Oil
- Breatharians make Dangerous Claims
- I was visited by Jehovah's Witnesses
- Probable nonsense promoted at Hamilton Fieldays
July
- Baby kept sick by mother's bad decision
- I went to a Scientology Event
- InfoWars promotes theory that NASA keeps slave kids on Mars
- Gifting Circles now illegal
- GMO Bananas may save lives
- Siggi Henry profiled in the Spinoff
- Vaxxed is still a nuisance in NZ
- Rural US Doctor may have to leave NZ
- Sensing Murder hasn't helped NZ Police
- There a major conspiracy theory I've never heard of!
August
- 2016 Skeptic of the year
- A Better Life
- Brain Wave Pseudoscience
- IHEU General Assembly NZ
- Musings on theatre and superstition
- NZ Skeptics Conference 2017
- Science and Ink
- Skeptics at opening of Scientology HQ
- Steffan Browning and the Green Party
- Tracking a Russian hacker
- What do we mean by marriage?
- Daughter conned into selling her possessions
- Finally, a skeptical story about Lotto
- Haunted Doll "strikes" again
- Jacinta Ardern Conspiracy!
- Naturopath Implicated in Cancer Deaths
- Satanic Panic
September
October
- Some great common sense advice from Rob Stock at Stuff
- The Apocalypse has been moved
- The FreeMan movement/Sovereign Citizens
- Conspiracy Theorists waste no time after Las Vegas shooting
- New healing device about to go on sale in NZ
- Sun protection pill goes on sale in NZ
- Breast Milk Soap
- Christchurch private detective offering lie detector test which is unlikely to work
- Doterra selling cancer cure in NZ
November
- A Killer Harvest
- An open letter to the people of Whakatane (and the rest of Aotearoa)
- Cartoon
- Naturopaths can kill, but regulating them is not the answer
- Newsfront
- Supermarkets & nutritional advice
- The Fake News Issue
- Turmeric and Food Safety
- Auckland thinking of dropping Glyphosate
- Children handed religious tracts at Halloween
- NZ Skeptics conference in Wellington
- Women Stranded at Sea for 5 months
- Dr Libby Weaver hits the news - twice
- Ghost in TradeMe mirror
- Go Green Expo still full of woo
- Sexual Harassment of kids is okay, because of Joseph and Mary?
December
- Acupuncture websites are misleading
- Gluckman talks about science denialism
- Holes in popular conspiracy theories
- Most UK Water Boards use dowsing
- First Pastafarian Citizenship in NZ
- My visit to the OTO
- Nonsense Pharmacy to open in Wellington
- Spontaneous Human Combustion in London
- UK has scrapped useless treatments