Articles from 2017

• January

  • Sunday 22nd

    • Scientology "Ideal Org" Grand Opening

  • Sunday 29th

    • Kiwi Creationism

• February

  • Sunday 5th

    • Ex fraudster released early trying alternative cancer treatment
    • Ricky Gervais talks about science vs belief
    • Scientology out on the streets in Grafton

  • Sunday 19th

    • 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

  • Sunday 5th

    • My Visit to faith healer Father John Rea

  • Sunday 19th

    • Australian who faked cancer diagnosis and cure found guilty
    • Interview with Sensing Murder producers

  • Sunday 26th

    • Census adds new non-religious categories
    • I wrote a letter to the NZ Medical Journal
    • Shaquille O'Neal believes in a flat earth?

• April

  • Sunday 2nd

    • NASA spends over $1 million on theology
    • Citizen Science and Planet 9
    • Vaxxed Premiered at Reading Cinemas LynnMall

  • Sunday 9th

    • Te Kiri Gold Cancer "Treatment" on sale
    • Otago Uni Screened Vaxxed

  • Sunday 23rd

    • Arise Church
    • Kelvin Cruickshank talks to Jonah Lomu

• May

  • Sunday 7th

    • Te Kiri Gold makers forced to release a statement
    • Nigel Antony Gray Still Crazy

  • Sunday 21st

    • Blasphemy Law may finally be repealed
    • Proof of a flat earth
    • Proof that people were in NZ before Maori?

• June

  • Sunday 4th

    • Robert Bigelow believes aliens are on earth
    • USA "pulls out" of the Paris Climate Accord
    • Nice article about Dave Hansford and 1080
    • Don't put ground up wasp's nest in your vagina

  • Sunday 11th

    • Apparently I need a colonic
    • Credulous alt-med article on Radio NZ
    • Aussie shows how lax sham journals can be

  • Sunday 18th

    • Breatharians make Dangerous Claims
    • Probable nonsense promoted at Hamilton Fieldays
    • I was visited by Jehovah's Witnesses
    • Auckland Church Promoting Magical Oil

• July

  • Sunday 2nd

    • Baby kept sick by mother's bad decision
    • InfoWars promotes theory that NASA keeps slave kids on Mars
    • I went to a Scientology Event

  • Sunday 16th

    • GMO Bananas may save lives
    • Gifting Circles now illegal
    • Siggi Henry profiled in the Spinoff
    • Vaxxed is still a nuisance in NZ

  • Sunday 30th

    • Rural US Doctor may have to leave NZ
    • There a major conspiracy theory I've never heard of!
    • Sensing Murder hasn't helped NZ Police

• August

  • Tuesday 1st

    • Musings on theatre and superstition
    • 2016 Skeptic of the year
    • IHEU General Assembly NZ
    • Skeptics at opening of Scientology HQ
    • A Better Life
    • Steffan Browning and the Green Party
    • What do we mean by marriage?
    • Tracking a Russian hacker
    • Science and Ink
    • Brain Wave Pseudoscience
    • NZ Skeptics Conference 2017

  • Sunday 6th

    • Daughter conned into selling her possessions
    • Haunted Doll "strikes" again
    • Jacinta Ardern Conspiracy!
    • Finally, a skeptical story about Lotto

  • Sunday 27th

    • Naturopath Implicated in Cancer Deaths
    • Satanic Panic

• September

  • Sunday 3rd

    • Nonsense book gets free media coverage
    • One-sided article updated after complaint
    • Newshub thought a picture of someone holding something rectangular was newsworthy
    • Iraq was Invaded because they had a stargate

• October

  • Sunday 1st

    • The Apocalypse has been moved
    • The FreeMan movement/Sovereign Citizens
    • Some great common sense advice from Rob Stock at Stuff

  • Sunday 8th

    • Sun protection pill goes on sale in NZ
    • New healing device about to go on sale in NZ
    • Conspiracy Theorists waste no time after Las Vegas shooting

  • Sunday 15th

    • Doterra selling cancer cure in NZ
    • Christchurch private detective offering lie detector test which is unlikely to work
    • Breast Milk Soap

• November

  • Wednesday 1st

    • The Fake News Issue
    • Newsfront
    • An open letter to the people of Whakatane (and the rest of Aotearoa)
    • A Killer Harvest
    • Naturopaths can kill, but regulating them is not the answer
    • Supermarkets & nutritional advice
    • Cartoon
    • Turmeric and Food Safety

  • Sunday 5th

    • NZ Skeptics conference in Wellington
    • Auckland thinking of dropping Glyphosate
    • Women Stranded at Sea for 5 months
    • Children handed religious tracts at Halloween

  • Sunday 12th

    • Ghost in TradeMe mirror
    • Go Green Expo still full of woo
    • Sexual Harassment of kids is okay, because of Joseph and Mary?
    • Dr Libby Weaver hits the news - twice

• December

  • Sunday 3rd

    • Acupuncture websites are misleading
    • Gluckman talks about science denialism
    • Most UK Water Boards use dowsing
    • Holes in popular conspiracy theories

  • Sunday 17th

    • UK has scrapped useless treatments
    • My visit to the OTO
    • First Pastafarian Citizenship in NZ
    • Spontaneous Human Combustion in London
    • Nonsense Pharmacy to open in Wellington