Articles from 2023

• January

  • Monday 9th

    • Happy New Year!
    • Recharging Disposable Batteries
    • Is ChatGPT an AGI? Is it alive?
    • Real Religion and Real Science: Pondering an Uncomfortable Comparison
    • Sophie Howard: Can you really get rich selling Kindle eBooks?

  • Monday 16th

    • Therapeutic Products Bill, M3GAN and Bad science, Ānanda Mārga cult
    • Therapeutic Products Bill
    • M3GAN
    • Bad science or not science?
    • Ānanda Mārga: The sect New Zealand forgot

  • Tuesday 24th

    • Out with the old, in with the new
    • Nessie, Bigfoot, Biden
    • Nobody's Perfect
    • Ti, Cannabis, and Lavender

  • Monday 30th

    • Flooding, Saying goodbye, Religious spam and more...
    • Flooding
    • Saying goodbye
    • On EVs in water
    • Religious spam
    • Secularising the city
    • The Herbalists (Quacks) Charter
    • Ti, Cannabis, and Lavender Part 2

• February

  • Tuesday 7th

    • Truly I am Blessed
    • Who is watching the artificial intelligence?
    • Fundamentalist Exchange: The evangelical pipeline between New Zealand and the United States.
    • Shattered Expectations: My Battle with Samsung

  • Monday 13th

    • Lincoln Russ preaches, We get mail, and Happy Darwin Day (belated)
    • Lincoln Russ
    • We get mail…
    • Darwin Day

  • Monday 20th

    • <Insert call to action here>
    • P-hacking
    • The Therapeutic Products Bill: Separating the Myths from the Facts
    • It's all about the NHPs
    • Fundamentalist Exchange: The evangelical pipeline between New Zealand and the United States.

  • Monday 27th

    • Farewell Robert, Liz Gunn arrested?, Census religion question
    • A sad farewell
    • Liz Gunn
    • Census time
    • TPB submissions
    • Fundamentalist Exchange: The evangelical pipeline between New Zealand and the United States.

• March

  • Monday 6th

    • Is this the longest issue yet?
    • 23 Minutes to regain focus
    • Fear: New Zealand's hostile underworld of extremists
    • Darwin Day visit to Stone-Henge Aotearoa
    • The Numbers Behind Eastern Lightning's Recruitment Strategy
    • The Lightning comes from the East - to NZ
    • From house church to exile: A brief history of Eastern Lightning

  • Monday 13th

    • Masks, Reality Check?, Electric University, Jessa Duggar
    • To mask or not to mask
    • A reality check?
    • Thunderbolts and Lightning (very very frightening)
    • Just a matter of semantics? : Why Jessa Duggar's miscarriage is blowing up on social media

  • Monday 20th

    • Once more unto the Breach
    • Ghost of NZ Skeptics past
    • Almighty God: The Big Reveal
    • Fundamentalist Exchange: The evangelical pipeline between New Zealand and the United States.

  • Monday 27th

    • Science > God
    • Therapeutic Products Bill: Oral Submissions
    • Eastern Lightning: Step by Step Instructions
    • Fundamentalist Exchange: The evangelical pipeline between New Zealand and the United States.

• April

  • Monday 3rd

    • $100K to give away, EV fires, NESRA, and Ray Comfort
    • We've got $100,000 to give away!
    • EV Fires
    • Future Perfect
    • Fundamentalist Exchange: The evangelical pipeline between New Zealand and the United States

  • Tuesday 11th

    • Everyone's lying to us
    • Buddha Stones and the Wishing Machine
    • Eastern Lightning: Lies, damn lies and Religion
    • Ketone MLM Prüvit: Water, Lead, and a distributor with no problem being problematic

  • Monday 17th

    • $100K challenge update, Gummies, and Billboards
    • $100K Challenge Update
    • Just one gummy a day…
    • Jolly Billboards

  • Monday 24th

    • You get a cult... you get a cult... everybody gets a cult
    • Silenced?
    • South Island UFO
    • School of Prophets Aotearoa
    • Eastern Lightning: Examining its Cult Characteristics
    • Builders of the Adytum: The tarot cards and Qabalah in Naenae

• May

  • Monday 1st

    • Quitting Junk, Keto, Bad Bitcoin Tips and the Keepers of Mysteries
    • Detox your mind from junk science with this one simple trick!
    • What the research says about the keto diet
    • Crypto Mining bad, Data Mining worse
    • Builders of the Adytum: The tarot cards and Qabalah in Naenae

  • Monday 8th

    • Scam on the New Zealand horizon, a confession, an avatar, and priceless real estate
    • Confession
    • New Freeland, Revisited
    • By many, many other names: The many lives of the late Avatar Adi Da Samraj

  • Monday 15th

    • Car recall, Street Epistemology, Mercury in retrograde and more
    • Massive recall of Tesla cars!
    • How to have rational discussions
    • Mercury in retrograde
    • By many, many other names: The many lives of the late Avatar Adi Da Samraj

  • Monday 22nd

    • Does anyone like Scrapbooking?
    • Beware the Technologically Advanced Mermaids
    • I joined an MLM!
    • A Highden Temple / International School of the Temple Arts (ISTA) update

  • Monday 29th

    • Conference in November, Bye Buttar, Can't believe my eyes and more...
    • Conference - November 24-26th
    • Bye bye disinformation guy
    • I can't believe my eyes!
    • New Zealand's own Light Worker

• June

  • Tuesday 6th

    • Thank Almighty God Above
    • No, your awesome policy idea will not pay for itself
    • Brain Chips in Humans
    • Diving into The Little Mermaid's Online Ratings
    • Scientology and New Zealand

  • Monday 12th

    • Justice?, Controversy, The Warehouse and more...
    • Justice is coming?
    • Our conference is coming up
    • Controversy
    • The Warehouse puberty blockers
    • Scientology and New Zealand

  • Monday 19th

    • Nonsense: In the air, in our brains, in politics and down in Christchurch
    • David Grusch and his UFO claims
    • Psychology myths
    • Freedom to be a shitty person
    • Scientology and New Zealand: John Dalhoff and Zenith Applied Philosophy (Z.A.P), Part 2

  • Monday 26th

    • 19 Prayers and Counting
    • Zap to the future: What is ZAP doing now?
    • The Weirdness of Pain
    • Not so Shiny, and definitely not happy: The non-stop undoing of Bill Gothard and The Dugger Family
    • NZ's other Light Workers

• July

  • Monday 3rd

    • Our Very Own Musical Skeptacular
    • The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet
    • 432Hz: What the freq do we know?
    • Does Vinyl Sound Better?
    • Chants and Chords: Top tunes from leaders and devotees, as voted by YOU!
    • Binaural Beats
    • Backmasking

  • Monday 10th

    • I'm running out of cults to join
    • YAPP - Yet Another Political Party
    • Sex.Life: The podcast that refused to put a name to it
    • Groundswell pushing climate swill
    • Reason & Passion: From Curiosity to Culty

  • Monday 17th

    • Back in the saddle, will AI take our jobs?, Aspartame cancer risk and more...
    • Tripping around North America
    • Will AI take our jobs?
    • Is my Diet Coke going to give me cancer?
    • The God Squad up the road: Douglas Metcalf and the Full Gospel Mission

  • Monday 24th

    • Going Undercover is Fun!
    • Trick or Treaty: Should you trust an evangelist to be honest about our history?
    • Go Home Racists - A surprisingly sedate story of a counter protest
    • The Discursive Supremacy of the Treaty of Waitangi
    • How Eastern Lightning Grew in China
    • The Lightning has Died, at least for me

  • Monday 31st

    • Ms. Information, LK-99, Thermography, Kambo and Two-by-Twos
    • Ms. Information
    • Thermography in New Zealand
    • Kambo
    • Two-by-twos: The sect with 2 many names and just as many problems (Part 1)

• August

  • Monday 7th

    • Miss Conduct
    • District of Freedom, #8573311~!#
    • Book review - Fake Believe by Dylan Reeve
    • The Inner Sanctum of the GloFlo movement
    • Two-by-twos: The sect with 2 many names and just as many problems (Part 2)

  • Monday 14th

    • RCR economic reality, Sam Bailey, whacky election candidates, and Glo Flo part 3
    • Economic Reality Bites at RCR
    • NZ First Candidates whacky beliefs
    • The ∑± Meetings

  • Monday 21st

    • Secrets and Lies
    • Liz Gunn vs the Fabians
    • Gnostic Mass: A touch of Aleister in the Antipodes
    • Safe ICT responds

  • Monday 28th

    • FLOATERs, crazy uncles, climate change misinformation, and more...
    • Interview with Melanie Trecek-King
    • Hottest July on record?
    • 15 Minute Cities
    • Trouble at RCR?
    • The rundown on Stampin'Up: The stamp MLM that is hitting mainstream news for the wrong reason

• September

  • Monday 4th

    • Exponential Growth
    • Avi Loeb is at it again
    • Lying for Jesus: Nic Blackie Edition
    • What to make of Naisi Chen
    • Catfish Noodles

  • Monday 11th

    • Psychic spat, I went to (a) church, Therapeutic Products Act
    • Psychic spat!
    • A brief sketch of Skeptical History for September 11th-17th
    • Fractal wood burning
    • I went to (a) church
    • Therapeutic Products Act analysis
    • Background

  • Monday 18th

    • Number 5 is Alive
    • From the Vault: Fringe Medicine
    • Consumer Report: Snoring Strap
    • Wham, Bam, Autism Scams - The bad actors and bad science behind the most egregious claims about the causes and cure for Autism
    • A Second Helping of Catfish Noodles

  • Monday 25th

    • Near Death Experiences, ISTA, Minnows in the election, and more...
    • Promotions
    • On Near Death Experiences
    • A little ISTA update featuring Steve Hassan
    • A Smorgasbord of Election Choice
    • Webb Update

• October

  • Monday 2nd

    • Tim, Tim and BronTim?
    • VPN companies and their claims
    • Family First: The Consummate Crybully
    • Wham, Bam, Autism Scams - The bad actors and bad science behind the most egregious claims about the causes and cure for Autism

  • Monday 9th

    • Gender and vaccines, a work from home scam, and more skeptical history
    • Gender, Vaccines and more…
    • A week in NZ Skeptical History - October 9th - 15th
    • CleverTap: a Work From Home scam

  • Monday 16th

    • The More Things Change
    • General (Ms.) Information
    • The Biggest Loser: Election Special
    • A week in NZ Skeptical History - October 16th - 22th
    • CleverTap Scam: Can I Scam the Scammers?

  • Tuesday 24th

    • Democracy, M.O.A.R, Loopy emails and BS wellness products, and fake doctors.
    • Popper's Theory of Democracy
    • Liz Gunn and the MOAR
    • The amusing emails we get…
    • The latest scam “wellness” product
    • Bad medicine: The fraudster doctors of New Zealand

  • Monday 30th

    • Spooky Special
    • Sisters are doing it for… a creepy old man
    • Hell Houses, Trunk-or-Treats, and Light Parties: How Hallowe'en alternative spread the gospel during the spooky season
    • Would the real Judy Eliassen please stand up

• November

  • Monday 6th

    • Ārepa brain drink, EMF protection, and a crypto critic book
    • Ārepa
    • Shungite for EMF protection!
    • Crypto book review

  • Monday 13th

    • Live Long and Prosper
    • Silent Solo Skeptical Activism
    • Are blue zones bogus?
    • Running out of Steam: The fake Judy scam, part 2

  • Monday 20th

    • The conference is night, streaming docs and twin flames, Dunedin Skeptical History
    • NZ Skeptics AGM
    • Beware of Netflix documentaries
    • Twin Flames: Twin Documentaries
    • A very Dunedin Skeptical History

  • Monday 27th

    • Another Year, Another Conference
    • Our 2023 Awards
    • Not so 'super' conductivity
    • AI image scam
    • Skeptic Quiz

• December

  • Monday 11th

    • Twisting the truth
    • Barry Young and the data dump
    • 15 Minute Cities
    • Crossed Lines: Ascended Masters and the Kiwis who channel them

  • Monday 25th

    • Merry Christ/Newtonmas
    • Santa Sighted over Christchurch, says NZ Herald
    • NZ lightworkers can save the world
    • Shadow Worlds: A History of the Occult and Esoteric in New Zealand - A review
    • Jim Humble and the MMS Pantomime
    • Crossed Lines: Ascended Masters and the Kiwis who channel them
    • My Friend Damien