Court Cases, Vaccines, Vortices and Guerrilla Skepticism

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

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 ... (364 words)

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Craig Shearer

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! From their latest email: ... (280 words)

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Craig Shearer

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. Thornley is an odd case in that he's an academic at the University ... (312 words)

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Craig Shearer

From the hard to believe it's real category, we found out about a revolutionary product being offered in New Zealand - Vortex Water! From their website, they explain: “In nature, water on it's (sic) ... (240 words)

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Craig Shearer

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 ... (337 words)

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