Welcome to the NZ Skeptics newsletter.
The news at present is very much concentrating on the COVD vaccine, and it’s been great to see a lot of attention paid to countering misinformation. Details below on the purveyors of this misinformation!
Wishing you a great week…
Craig Shearer
Craig Shearer - 24 May 2021
The week before last we saw Sue Grey, a Nelson-based lawyer and co-leader of the NZ Outdoors party, bringing a case against the NZ Government claiming that the rollout of the COVID vaccine was illegal under the Section 23 of the Medicines Act.
Craig Shearer - 24 May 2021
I have a super-secret email account that I use to sign up to various mailing lists, including the Voices for Freedom mailing list. Boy do they put out some propaganda!
Craig Shearer - 24 May 2021
Yet another anti-hero of the COVID story is Dr Simon Thornley, of the COVID Plan B group who we've mentioned many times in the past.
Craig Shearer - 24 May 2021
From the hard to believe it's real category, we found out about a revolutionary product being offered in New Zealand - Vortex Water!
Craig Shearer - 24 May 2021
If you've spent any time on the internet you'll likely have encountered Wikipedia - the community-edited encyclopaedia. Wikipedia gets a bad rap as it's possible for anybody to edit the content and put misinformation on a page.