Articles from 2022

• January

  • Monday 3rd

    • Happy New Year!
    • Why are You a Skeptic
    • Lotus-Heart fined for “taking a stand”
    • An unusual vaccine endorsement
    • Nuclear Gandhi

  • Monday 10th

    • 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

  • Monday 17th

    • What's in my Inbox?
    • Baba Vanga predicts the future
    • Cryptoland

  • Monday 24th

    • Back into red, Wordle, Life on Mars, and the usual anti-vax roundup
    • Omicron is here, and we're red!
    • Tonga aftermath & Ken Ring
    • Wordle
    • Life on Mars
    • Anti-vaxxer roundup
    • The sceptical piano tuner

  • Monday 31st

    • An Audio Spectacular
    • Why I am a Skeptic
    • Moving away from Spotify
    • A computer hard drive that makes your music sound better?

• February

  • Monday 7th

    • Nano particles in the vaccine, If it's not COVID, what is it?, Sri Chinmoy, and UFO hoax pics.
    • Undeclared nanotech in Pfizer vaccine?
    • Crypto and NFTs
    • Dr Sam Bailey: viruses and germs don't exist!
    • The 'Hood NZ loses case
    • Cult Dining: The Lotus Heart and the legacy of Sri Chinmoy
    • UFOs – the camera doesn't lie…
    • Why are you a skeptic - Felicity Goodyear-Smith

  • Monday 14th

    • Happy Valentine's Day. Yeah... Nah!
    • Convoy 2022
    • NZDSOS Stars
    • The Brothers Bogdanoff and the Jadczyks

  • Monday 21st

    • Protest, or occupation?
    • My Broadband Speed
    • The Evolution of Psychology as a science
    • Gordon Hewitt - Why I'm a skeptic

  • Monday 28th

    • Bronwyn Takes Over
    • Conversion Therapy Bill passes final reading
    • Nuremberg Nonsense
    • Sri Chinmoy, Part 2

• March

  • Monday 7th

    • Protest finale, Investigative journalism? RIP Shane Warne and more.
    • Protest finale
    • Investigative journalism?
    • Freedoms
    • Liz Gunn
    • RIP Shane Warne
    • Chaplaincy for the non-religious

  • Monday 14th

    • We are not Alone
    • Sandra Goudie says no to the vaccine… again
    • Clarke Gayford jailed for drug trafficking?
    • Methylene Blue: Nootropic nonsense
    • Pixelmon: A home-grown NFT scandal

  • Monday 21st

    • Deepfakes, HPCA, and can we sell you a plot in Scotland?
    • Deepfakes
    • Midwife, Doctor, Psychologist, Chiropractor
    • A dime a thousand

  • Monday 28th

    • BITE, NESARA, MLM - an acronym special
    • Taking a BITE out of Mormonism
    • Does Finland exist?
    • NESARA and GESARA
    • MLMs and the promise of wealth from your dining room table

• April

  • Monday 4th

    • End game is politics, Website hacking, War in Ukraine
    • Fringe Groups into politics
    • Website hacking
    • The sources of Putin's ideas
    • War in Ukraine: the Dangers of Believing Your Own Propaganda
    • Mary Kay: The MLM that ditched New Zealand (and Australia, too)

  • Monday 11th

    • Oh god, not another Convoy
    • An evening with the OTO
    • Cleaning out my mailbox
    • Convoy, part 2
    • Arise Church Prospering at interns' expense
    • UK Autism Charity exposed and homeopathic treatment still being advertised in NZ
    • A Skeptical Year

  • Monday 18th

    • Arise, Mātauranga Māori, NFT crash and more
    • Reflections on Mātauranga Māori
    • Arise Church
    • NFT crash?
    • Oily Matters: Young Living

  • Monday 25th

    • A well-rounded diet
    • Teenage Tics
    • Oily Matters Part 2: dōTERRA
    • International Grants online
    • The Joy of Satan?

• May

  • Monday 2nd

    • BSA decision, Sovereign Citizen Sheriffs, and Arbonne MLM
    • The Pfizer COVID vaccine is safe for almost everyone
    • Sheriffs Invade ANZAC Service
    • MLM Series: Arbonne

  • Monday 9th

    • I wish Remote Rife Therapy really did work
    • Royal Raymond Rife Remotely
    • Ken Ring is getting worse
    • Amway

  • Monday 16th

    • SIDS breakthrough? Cryptocrash, Wind control, and an event in skeptical history
    • Possible enzyme link to SIDS identified
    • The wind in the trees...
    • Cryptocrash
    • 365 days of Skeptical History

  • Monday 23rd

    • Everyone is out to scam you
    • Countersunk?
    • Anatomy of an Indian Phone Scam
    • Penzias and Wilson as Scientific Saints, or, the ritual scouring of the pigeon shit
    • A-C-E is not A-OK
    • Isagenix: Hungry for commissions

  • Monday 30th

    • Guns, viruses, TPM and Femtech
    • Guns
    • TWiV
    • A murmuration of misinformation
    • Going with the (Aunt) flo

• June

  • Tuesday 7th

    • Sometimes these titles are the hardest thing to write
    • Counterspin can't stand “Cancel Culture”
    • The Boundaries of Delusion
    • The Evolution of Spam
    • Norwex: Do the Claims Wash?

  • Monday 13th

    • Introduction
    • Peter Ellis case
    • VfF and masks
    • Louise Wallace on gaffer tape
    • Multi Level Marketing: Musings about Monat

  • Monday 20th

    • The Easiest Person to Fool
    • Google engineer thinks he's discovered sentient AI
    • What a difference a word makes
    • It's PRIDE month in the northern hemisphere
    • Deep Fake Elon Musk Cryptocurrency Scam

  • Monday 27th

    • Introduction
    • Matariki
    • Roe v. Wade overturn
    • Our carbon footprint
    • Pharmacy project
    • What the heck is the Tartarian Empire

• July

  • Monday 4th

    • Bones, URLs and other dubious links
    • Q: When is a charity not a charity?
    • No bones wanted: The legacy of the bone trade and Medical School
    • You are the weak(est).link

  • Monday 11th

    • Introduction
    • Psychic challenge is over
    • Georgia Guidestones are no more
    • Vitamin D overdoses
    • Call out for help fighting pseudoscience!
    • “First, Do No Harm”: The Hippocratic Oath.

  • Monday 18th

    • A little help from my friends
    • High Vibration Moon Crystal Healing Bracelet
    • Arnica Cream
    • Three Waters Misinformation
    • Smudge, Like, and Subscribe: The Occult's second life on social media

  • Monday 25th

    • Media attack, climate, misinformation from inside the building, MPX, IQ tests and Mensa
    • Siouxsie media attack
    • Climate crisis
    • Forgive me, for I have sinned
    • Pandemic continues… Monkeypox next?
    • The Business of Braininess: The allure of high IQ and the dark side of Mensa

• August

  • Monday 1st

    • People say nothing is impossible
    • Twelve thousand million tonnes of water a day
    • A Theory of Very Little Substance
    • Scammers being scammed
    • Beyond Mensa - High IQ Societies

  • Monday 8th

    • Nonsense to the left of me, nonsense to the right
    • Alex Jones liable for $50 million, but is it enough?
    • What's happening with Fluoridation in NZ?
    • H3O2 - it's one better all round
    • In the shadows of the (Highden) Temple

  • Monday 15th

    • Misfire and Fury?
    • I highly recommend Gloriavale
    • Acupuncturists taking advantage of ACC claims
    • NASA to investigate UAPs - what are they, and are they real?
    • In the shadows of the (Highden) Temple

  • Monday 22nd

    • I'm back...
    • Fire and Fury documentary raising Ire and Indignation
    • Chantelle Baker gone from Facebook… for now
    • Local Body Elections and the dodgy candidates
    • Is the sun finally setting on Arise?

  • Monday 29th

    • The Winds of Change?
    • Yet another “FREEDOM” protest
    • The NZ Skeptical calendar: August 29th to September 4th
    • Hunting a Facebook Impersonator

• September

  • Monday 5th

    • The Human Condition, CT roundup, Tupperware and Tree planting.
    • The Human Condition
    • Conspiracy Theorist round-up
    • Tupperware shutting down in New Zealand: Mainstream media exhaust their annual allowance of witty headlines.
    • Be-leaf it or knot: Are tree-planting initiatives up to snuff or are they going up in smoke?

  • Monday 12th

    • Road Trip!
    • Skeptics in the Pub Auckland
    • Pick a God, any God
    • Cacao Ceremonies: Ancient wisdom or New Age consumerism?
    • Auras are (not) real
    • King Charles III
    • Irlen: a fake condition being promoted in NZ schools

  • Monday 19th

    • A skepical weekend
    • Mormon Reflections
    • Mask Flyer Timing fail
    • Choosing candidates
    • Live, Lab(oratory), Love: The trajectory of at-home testing

  • Tuesday 27th

    • A Mixed Bag of Interesting Articles
    • Sexy Cheating at Chess
    • Hold on to your follicles: Haircare MLM Monat crossing the ditch to NZ
    • The engineering of a COVID origin conspiracy

• October

  • Monday 3rd

    • My busy week
    • 2022 NZ Skeptics Conference
    • BOOK NOW!
    • Climate change topics
    • Auckland Skeptics in the Pub
    • Vote!
    • Destiny Church in the UK

  • Monday 10th

    • Elections, Court Decision and Soap
    • Justice for Peter Ellis - better late than never
    • Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps
    • The 27 Club

  • Monday 17th

    • Will you be there?
    • Alex Jones Judgement
    • Homeopathic product placement
    • Election result claims
    • Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps - Part 2

  • Tuesday 25th

    • Just Say No to NNN
    • Blue Pill, Red Pill or... Black Pill?
    • Shincheonji on the prowl
    • The Cephalic Index: A Vanished Pseudoscience

  • Monday 31st

    • Happy Halloween!
    • Halloweeen
    • Conference is close
    • Musk's Twitter purchase
    • Climate mis-information
    • Highden under scrutiny

• November

  • Monday 7th

    • Excuse me, sir…
    • Weird and Wonderful Communications
    • Am I woke, or just morally broke?
    • I am a Starseed
    • Caeayaron – a home-grown Messianic cult
    • Who wrote Anne Frank's diary?

  • Monday 14th

    • Believing is seeing, Christian Zealots, Going Green, and exposing scientific fraud
    • New local documentary
    • Christian Zealots in my suburb!
    • Go Green Expo
    • The incredible eyes of Elisabeth Bik: How pattern-matching exposes scientific fraud

  • Monday 21st

    • Don't forget to buy your conference ticket!
    • Lying for Jesus: Franklin Graham Edition
    • Safe ICT NZ

  • Monday 28th

    • Successful conference, skeptics bouquets and brickbats, and the Franklin Graham experience!
    • Of thorny bouquets and flaming brickbats
    • Billy Graham, Franklin Graham. Fathers, Sons and Time.

• December

  • Monday 5th

    • Greetings All
    • The Real Tradwives of Fascism
    • Fake Norton Email Scam
    • The return (and potential end) of the fake Lairds and Ladies of Scotland
    • A Skeptical History for this week

  • Monday 12th

    • T-Cells, AA Cells, Leaf Cells
    • Boiling Batteries
    • EVs at Wai Wheels Featherston
    • Go, T-Cells!

  • Monday 19th

    • Goodbye 2022 - baby blood, BTK & Vinny, Trump cards, Anti-abortion origins
    • The Baby blood case
    • Queensland killings and far-right links
    • Billy Te Kahika and Vinny Eastwood guilty
    • No accounting for taste
    • The Dark Origins of the Anti-abortion Movement