NZ Skeptics Newsletter
Welcome to the NZ Skeptics newsletter.
This week has been exciting, with the release of a web site project supporting vaccination, updates to the COVID levels system, and a hacker revealing all.
And to top it off, according to one prominent person, our PM Jacinda Adern can cause earthquakes!
Read on below...
Craig Shearer
Late last week NZ Skeptics published a spoof website built (NZ Skeptics Secretary and past Chair, and alternating newsletter author).
This week has seen the introduction of the Traffic Light System to replace the COVID lockdown levels currently in place. This will take effect once all of the country's DHB's achieve a 90% fully vaccinated rate for their populations.
Last week Sue Grey (lawyer) was back at the High Court challenging a “no jab, no job” order on behalf of aviation security workers who lost their jobs at the end of September for refusing the vaccine.
I'll preface this by saying that this is a topic I'm certainly not qualified to talk about.
A recent article on the Ars Technica site details the story of a so-called ethical hacker who was employed by a company to build a pro-Trump fake news empire. (Note, this is the real fake news, as in news that isn't true - compared to the “fake news” that Trump infamously categorised unfavourable coverage of him as.)
Our Prime Minister has quite a reputation around the world, but did you know she's also able to cause earthquakes?
If you're a regular reader of our weekly newsletter you'll know by now that we're running a conference in conjunction with the Australian Skeptics. Because of COVID-19 restrictions we made the decision to run it entirely online.