Articles from 2022
January
- An unusual vaccine endorsement
- Happy New Year!
- Lotus-Heart fined for “taking a stand”
- Nuclear Gandhi
- Why are You a Skeptic
- Don't Look Up! (actually, you should), and more...
- Don't Look Up
- Drownings and the road toll
- JWST unfurled
- Scientists under attack
- 'Tis the season
- Baba Vanga predicts the future
- Cryptoland
- What's in my Inbox?
- Anti-vaxxer roundup
- Back into red, Wordle, Life on Mars, and the usual anti-vax roundup
- Life on Mars
- Omicron is here, and we're red!
- The sceptical piano tuner
- Tonga aftermath & Ken Ring
- Wordle
- A computer hard drive that makes your music sound better?
- An Audio Spectacular
- Moving away from Spotify
- Why I am a Skeptic
February
- Crypto and NFTs
- Cult Dining: The Lotus Heart and the legacy of Sri Chinmoy
- Dr Sam Bailey: viruses and germs don't exist!
- Nano particles in the vaccine, If it's not COVID, what is it?, Sri Chinmoy, and UFO hoax pics.
- The 'Hood NZ loses case
- UFOs – the camera doesn't lie…
- Undeclared nanotech in Pfizer vaccine?
- Why are you a skeptic - Felicity Goodyear-Smith
- Convoy 2022
- Happy Valentine's Day. Yeah... Nah!
- NZDSOS Stars
- The Brothers Bogdanoff and the Jadczyks
- Gordon Hewitt - Why I'm a skeptic
- My Broadband Speed
- Protest, or occupation?
- The Evolution of Psychology as a science
- Bronwyn Takes Over
- Conversion Therapy Bill passes final reading
- Nuremberg Nonsense
- Sri Chinmoy, Part 2
March
- Chaplaincy for the non-religious
- Freedoms
- Investigative journalism?
- Liz Gunn
- Protest finale, Investigative journalism? RIP Shane Warne and more.
- Protest finale
- RIP Shane Warne
- Clarke Gayford jailed for drug trafficking?
- Methylene Blue: Nootropic nonsense
- Pixelmon: A home-grown NFT scandal
- Sandra Goudie says no to the vaccine… again
- We are not Alone
- A dime a thousand
- Deepfakes, HPCA, and can we sell you a plot in Scotland?
- Deepfakes
- Midwife, Doctor, Psychologist, Chiropractor
- BITE, NESARA, MLM - an acronym special
- Does Finland exist?
- MLMs and the promise of wealth from your dining room table
- NESARA and GESARA
- Taking a BITE out of Mormonism
April
- End game is politics, Website hacking, War in Ukraine
- Fringe Groups into politics
- Mary Kay: The MLM that ditched New Zealand (and Australia, too)
- The sources of Putin's ideas
- War in Ukraine: the Dangers of Believing Your Own Propaganda
- Website hacking
- A Skeptical Year
- An evening with the OTO
- Arise Church Prospering at interns' expense
- Cleaning out my mailbox
- Convoy, part 2
- Oh god, not another Convoy
- UK Autism Charity exposed and homeopathic treatment still being advertised in NZ
- Arise Church
- Arise, Mātauranga Māori, NFT crash and more
- NFT crash?
- Oily Matters: Young Living
- Reflections on Mātauranga Māori
- A well-rounded diet
- International Grants online
- Oily Matters Part 2: dōTERRA
- Teenage Tics
- The Joy of Satan?
May
- BSA decision, Sovereign Citizen Sheriffs, and Arbonne MLM
- MLM Series: Arbonne
- Sheriffs Invade ANZAC Service
- The Pfizer COVID vaccine is safe for almost everyone
- Amway
- I wish Remote Rife Therapy really did work
- Ken Ring is getting worse
- Royal Raymond Rife Remotely
- 365 days of Skeptical History
- Cryptocrash
- Possible enzyme link to SIDS identified
- SIDS breakthrough? Cryptocrash, Wind control, and an event in skeptical history
- The wind in the trees...
- A-C-E is not A-OK
- Anatomy of an Indian Phone Scam
- Countersunk?
- Everyone is out to scam you
- Isagenix: Hungry for commissions
- Penzias and Wilson as Scientific Saints, or, the ritual scouring of the pigeon shit
- A murmuration of misinformation
- Going with the (Aunt) flo
- Guns, viruses, TPM and Femtech
- Guns
- TWiV
June
- Counterspin can't stand “Cancel Culture”
- Norwex: Do the Claims Wash?
- Sometimes these titles are the hardest thing to write
- The Boundaries of Delusion
- The Evolution of Spam
- Introduction
- Louise Wallace on gaffer tape
- Multi Level Marketing: Musings about Monat
- Peter Ellis case
- VfF and masks
- Deep Fake Elon Musk Cryptocurrency Scam
- Google engineer thinks he's discovered sentient AI
- It's PRIDE month in the northern hemisphere
- The Easiest Person to Fool
- What a difference a word makes
- Introduction
- Matariki
- Our carbon footprint
- Pharmacy project
- Roe v. Wade overturn
- What the heck is the Tartarian Empire
July
- Bones, URLs and other dubious links
- No bones wanted: The legacy of the bone trade and Medical School
- Q: When is a charity not a charity?
- You are the weak(est).link
- Call out for help fighting pseudoscience!
- “First, Do No Harm”: The Hippocratic Oath.
- Georgia Guidestones are no more
- Introduction
- Psychic challenge is over
- Vitamin D overdoses
- A little help from my friends
- Arnica Cream
- High Vibration Moon Crystal Healing Bracelet
- Smudge, Like, and Subscribe: The Occult's second life on social media
- Three Waters Misinformation
- Climate crisis
- Forgive me, for I have sinned
- Media attack, climate, misinformation from inside the building, MPX, IQ tests and Mensa
- Pandemic continues… Monkeypox next?
- Siouxsie media attack
- The Business of Braininess: The allure of high IQ and the dark side of Mensa
August
- A Theory of Very Little Substance
- Beyond Mensa - High IQ Societies
- People say nothing is impossible
- Scammers being scammed
- Twelve thousand million tonnes of water a day
- Alex Jones liable for $50 million, but is it enough?
- H3O2 - it's one better all round
- In the shadows of the (Highden) Temple
- Nonsense to the left of me, nonsense to the right
- What's happening with Fluoridation in NZ?
- Acupuncturists taking advantage of ACC claims
- I highly recommend Gloriavale
- In the shadows of the (Highden) Temple
- Misfire and Fury?
- NASA to investigate UAPs - what are they, and are they real?
- Chantelle Baker gone from Facebook… for now
- Fire and Fury documentary raising Ire and Indignation
- I'm back...
- Is the sun finally setting on Arise?
- Local Body Elections and the dodgy candidates
- Hunting a Facebook Impersonator
- The NZ Skeptical calendar: August 29th to September 4th
- The Winds of Change?
- Yet another “FREEDOM” protest
September
- Be-leaf it or knot: Are tree-planting initiatives up to snuff or are they going up in smoke?
- Conspiracy Theorist round-up
- The Human Condition, CT roundup, Tupperware and Tree planting.
- The Human Condition
- Tupperware shutting down in New Zealand: Mainstream media exhaust their annual allowance of witty headlines.
- Auras are (not) real
- Cacao Ceremonies: Ancient wisdom or New Age consumerism?
- Irlen: a fake condition being promoted in NZ schools
- King Charles III
- Pick a God, any God
- Road Trip!
- Skeptics in the Pub Auckland
- A skepical weekend
- Choosing candidates
- Live, Lab(oratory), Love: The trajectory of at-home testing
- Mask Flyer Timing fail
- Mormon Reflections
- A Mixed Bag of Interesting Articles
- Hold on to your follicles: Haircare MLM Monat crossing the ditch to NZ
- Sexy Cheating at Chess
- The engineering of a COVID origin conspiracy
October
- 2022 NZ Skeptics Conference
- Auckland Skeptics in the Pub
- BOOK NOW!
- Climate change topics
- Destiny Church in the UK
- My busy week
- Vote!
- Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps
- Elections, Court Decision and Soap
- Justice for Peter Ellis - better late than never
- The 27 Club
- Alex Jones Judgement
- Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps - Part 2
- Election result claims
- Homeopathic product placement
- Will you be there?
- Blue Pill, Red Pill or... Black Pill?
- Just Say No to NNN
- Shincheonji on the prowl
- The Cephalic Index: A Vanished Pseudoscience
- Climate mis-information
- Conference is close
- Halloweeen
- Happy Halloween!
- Highden under scrutiny
- Musk's Twitter purchase
November
- Am I woke, or just morally broke?
- Caeayaron – a home-grown Messianic cult
- Excuse me, sir…
- I am a Starseed
- Weird and Wonderful Communications
- Who wrote Anne Frank's diary?
- Believing is seeing, Christian Zealots, Going Green, and exposing scientific fraud
- Christian Zealots in my suburb!
- Go Green Expo
- New local documentary
- The incredible eyes of Elisabeth Bik: How pattern-matching exposes scientific fraud
- Don't forget to buy your conference ticket!
- Lying for Jesus: Franklin Graham Edition
- Safe ICT NZ
- Billy Graham, Franklin Graham. Fathers, Sons and Time.
- Of thorny bouquets and flaming brickbats
- Successful conference, skeptics bouquets and brickbats, and the Franklin Graham experience!
December
- A Skeptical History for this week
- Fake Norton Email Scam
- Greetings All
- The Real Tradwives of Fascism
- The return (and potential end) of the fake Lairds and Ladies of Scotland
- Boiling Batteries
- EVs at Wai Wheels Featherston
- Go, T-Cells!
- T-Cells, AA Cells, Leaf Cells
- Billy Te Kahika and Vinny Eastwood guilty
- Goodbye 2022 - baby blood, BTK & Vinny, Trump cards, Anti-abortion origins
- No accounting for taste
- Queensland killings and far-right links
- The Baby blood case
- The Dark Origins of the Anti-abortion Movement