Articles from 2023
January
- Happy New Year!
- Is ChatGPT an AGI? Is it alive?
- Real Religion and Real Science: Pondering an Uncomfortable Comparison
- Recharging Disposable Batteries
- Sophie Howard: Can you really get rich selling Kindle eBooks?
- Bad science or not science?
- M3GAN
- Ānanda Mārga: The sect New Zealand forgot
- Therapeutic Products Bill, M3GAN and Bad science, Ānanda Mārga cult
- Therapeutic Products Bill
- Nessie, Bigfoot, Biden
- Nobody's Perfect
- Out with the old, in with the new
- Ti, Cannabis, and Lavender
- Flooding, Saying goodbye, Religious spam and more...
- Flooding
- On EVs in water
- Religious spam
- Saying goodbye
- Secularising the city
- The Herbalists (Quacks) Charter
- Ti, Cannabis, and Lavender Part 2
February
- Fundamentalist Exchange: The evangelical pipeline between New Zealand and the United States.
- Shattered Expectations: My Battle with Samsung
- Truly I am Blessed
- Who is watching the artificial intelligence?
- Darwin Day
- Lincoln Russ preaches, We get mail, and Happy Darwin Day (belated)
- Lincoln Russ
- We get mail…
- Fundamentalist Exchange: The evangelical pipeline between New Zealand and the United States.
- <Insert call to action here>
- It's all about the NHPs
- P-hacking
- The Therapeutic Products Bill: Separating the Myths from the Facts
- A sad farewell
- Census time
- Farewell Robert, Liz Gunn arrested?, Census religion question
- Fundamentalist Exchange: The evangelical pipeline between New Zealand and the United States.
- Liz Gunn
- TPB submissions
March
- 23 Minutes to regain focus
- Darwin Day visit to Stone-Henge Aotearoa
- Fear: New Zealand's hostile underworld of extremists
- From house church to exile: A brief history of Eastern Lightning
- Is this the longest issue yet?
- The Lightning comes from the East - to NZ
- The Numbers Behind Eastern Lightning's Recruitment Strategy
- A reality check?
- Just a matter of semantics? : Why Jessa Duggar's miscarriage is blowing up on social media
- Masks, Reality Check?, Electric University, Jessa Duggar
- Thunderbolts and Lightning (very very frightening)
- To mask or not to mask
- Almighty God: The Big Reveal
- Fundamentalist Exchange: The evangelical pipeline between New Zealand and the United States.
- Ghost of NZ Skeptics past
- Once more unto the Breach
- Eastern Lightning: Step by Step Instructions
- Fundamentalist Exchange: The evangelical pipeline between New Zealand and the United States.
- Science > God
- Therapeutic Products Bill: Oral Submissions
April
- $100K to give away, EV fires, NESRA, and Ray Comfort
- EV Fires
- Fundamentalist Exchange: The evangelical pipeline between New Zealand and the United States
- Future Perfect
- We've got $100,000 to give away!
- Buddha Stones and the Wishing Machine
- Eastern Lightning: Lies, damn lies and Religion
- Everyone's lying to us
- Ketone MLM Prüvit: Water, Lead, and a distributor with no problem being problematic
- $100K challenge update, Gummies, and Billboards
- $100K Challenge Update
- Jolly Billboards
- Just one gummy a day…
- Builders of the Adytum: The tarot cards and Qabalah in Naenae
- Eastern Lightning: Examining its Cult Characteristics
- School of Prophets Aotearoa
- Silenced?
- South Island UFO
- You get a cult... you get a cult... everybody gets a cult
May
- Builders of the Adytum: The tarot cards and Qabalah in Naenae
- Crypto Mining bad, Data Mining worse
- Detox your mind from junk science with this one simple trick!
- Quitting Junk, Keto, Bad Bitcoin Tips and the Keepers of Mysteries
- What the research says about the keto diet
- By many, many other names: The many lives of the late Avatar Adi Da Samraj
- Confession
- New Freeland, Revisited
- Scam on the New Zealand horizon, a confession, an avatar, and priceless real estate
- By many, many other names: The many lives of the late Avatar Adi Da Samraj
- Car recall, Street Epistemology, Mercury in retrograde and more
- How to have rational discussions
- Massive recall of Tesla cars!
- Mercury in retrograde
- A Highden Temple / International School of the Temple Arts (ISTA) update
- Beware the Technologically Advanced Mermaids
- Does anyone like Scrapbooking?
- I joined an MLM!
- Bye bye disinformation guy
- Conference in November, Bye Buttar, Can't believe my eyes and more...
- Conference - November 24-26th
- I can't believe my eyes!
- New Zealand's own Light Worker
June
- Brain Chips in Humans
- Diving into The Little Mermaid's Online Ratings
- No, your awesome policy idea will not pay for itself
- Scientology and New Zealand
- Thank Almighty God Above
- Controversy
- Justice?, Controversy, The Warehouse and more...
- Justice is coming?
- Our conference is coming up
- Scientology and New Zealand
- The Warehouse puberty blockers
- David Grusch and his UFO claims
- Freedom to be a shitty person
- Nonsense: In the air, in our brains, in politics and down in Christchurch
- Psychology myths
- Scientology and New Zealand: John Dalhoff and Zenith Applied Philosophy (Z.A.P), Part 2
- 19 Prayers and Counting
- Not so Shiny, and definitely not happy: The non-stop undoing of Bill Gothard and The Dugger Family
- NZ's other Light Workers
- The Weirdness of Pain
- Zap to the future: What is ZAP doing now?
July
- 432Hz: What the freq do we know?
- Backmasking
- Binaural Beats
- Chants and Chords: Top tunes from leaders and devotees, as voted by YOU!
- Does Vinyl Sound Better?
- Our Very Own Musical Skeptacular
- The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet
- Groundswell pushing climate swill
- I'm running out of cults to join
- Reason & Passion: From Curiosity to Culty
- Sex.Life: The podcast that refused to put a name to it
- YAPP - Yet Another Political Party
- Back in the saddle, will AI take our jobs?, Aspartame cancer risk and more...
- Is my Diet Coke going to give me cancer?
- The God Squad up the road: Douglas Metcalf and the Full Gospel Mission
- Tripping around North America
- Will AI take our jobs?
- Go Home Racists - A surprisingly sedate story of a counter protest
- Going Undercover is Fun!
- How Eastern Lightning Grew in China
- The Discursive Supremacy of the Treaty of Waitangi
- The Lightning has Died, at least for me
- Trick or Treaty: Should you trust an evangelist to be honest about our history?
- Kambo
- Ms. Information, LK-99, Thermography, Kambo and Two-by-Twos
- Ms. Information
- Thermography in New Zealand
- Two-by-twos: The sect with 2 many names and just as many problems (Part 1)
August
- Book review - Fake Believe by Dylan Reeve
- District of Freedom, #8573311~!#
- Miss Conduct
- The Inner Sanctum of the GloFlo movement
- Two-by-twos: The sect with 2 many names and just as many problems (Part 2)
- Economic Reality Bites at RCR
- NZ First Candidates whacky beliefs
- RCR economic reality, Sam Bailey, whacky election candidates, and Glo Flo part 3
- The ∑± Meetings
- Gnostic Mass: A touch of Aleister in the Antipodes
- Liz Gunn vs the Fabians
- Safe ICT responds
- Secrets and Lies
- 15 Minute Cities
- FLOATERs, crazy uncles, climate change misinformation, and more...
- Hottest July on record?
- Interview with Melanie Trecek-King
- The rundown on Stampin'Up: The stamp MLM that is hitting mainstream news for the wrong reason
- Trouble at RCR?
September
- Avi Loeb is at it again
- Catfish Noodles
- Exponential Growth
- Lying for Jesus: Nic Blackie Edition
- What to make of Naisi Chen
- A brief sketch of Skeptical History for September 11th-17th
- Background
- Fractal wood burning
- I went to (a) church
- Psychic spat, I went to (a) church, Therapeutic Products Act
- Psychic spat!
- Therapeutic Products Act analysis
- A Second Helping of Catfish Noodles
- Consumer Report: Snoring Strap
- From the Vault: Fringe Medicine
- Number 5 is Alive
- Wham, Bam, Autism Scams - The bad actors and bad science behind the most egregious claims about the causes and cure for Autism
- A little ISTA update featuring Steve Hassan
- A Smorgasbord of Election Choice
- Near Death Experiences, ISTA, Minnows in the election, and more...
- On Near Death Experiences
- Promotions
- Webb Update
October
- Family First: The Consummate Crybully
- Tim, Tim and BronTim?
- VPN companies and their claims
- Wham, Bam, Autism Scams - The bad actors and bad science behind the most egregious claims about the causes and cure for Autism
- A week in NZ Skeptical History - October 9th - 15th
- CleverTap: a Work From Home scam
- Gender and vaccines, a work from home scam, and more skeptical history
- Gender, Vaccines and more…
- A week in NZ Skeptical History - October 16th - 22th
- CleverTap Scam: Can I Scam the Scammers?
- General (Ms.) Information
- The Biggest Loser: Election Special
- The More Things Change
- Bad medicine: The fraudster doctors of New Zealand
- Democracy, M.O.A.R, Loopy emails and BS wellness products, and fake doctors.
- Liz Gunn and the MOAR
- Popper's Theory of Democracy
- The amusing emails we get…
- The latest scam “wellness” product
- Hell Houses, Trunk-or-Treats, and Light Parties: How Hallowe'en alternative spread the gospel during the spooky season
- Sisters are doing it for… a creepy old man
- Spooky Special
- Would the real Judy Eliassen please stand up
November
- Crypto book review
- Ārepa brain drink, EMF protection, and a crypto critic book
- Ārepa
- Shungite for EMF protection!
- Are blue zones bogus?
- Live Long and Prosper
- Running out of Steam: The fake Judy scam, part 2
- Silent Solo Skeptical Activism
- A very Dunedin Skeptical History
- Beware of Netflix documentaries
- NZ Skeptics AGM
- The conference is night, streaming docs and twin flames, Dunedin Skeptical History
- Twin Flames: Twin Documentaries
- AI image scam
- Another Year, Another Conference
- Not so 'super' conductivity
- Our 2023 Awards
- Skeptic Quiz
December
- 15 Minute Cities
- Barry Young and the data dump
- Crossed Lines: Ascended Masters and the Kiwis who channel them
- Twisting the truth
- Crossed Lines: Ascended Masters and the Kiwis who channel them
- Jim Humble and the MMS Pantomime
- Merry Christ/Newtonmas
- My Friend Damien
- NZ lightworkers can save the world
- Santa Sighted over Christchurch, says NZ Herald
- Shadow Worlds: A History of the Occult and Esoteric in New Zealand - A review