Articles from 2024
January
- Book Review: How Minds Change
- Crossed Lines: Ascended Masters and the Kiwis who channel them
- Pick a bogus treatment
- Some predatory journals have no sense
- The Jeremiad of Plissken Boon
- The Year Ahead
- A Sovereign Citizen walks into a bar
- A very human update on the “living man”, Roger Blake
- A White Coat Cassandra
- Circle-jerk-ing
- Dr Zach vs Rationality Rules
- Yet another ISTA update
- You can't beat good on a Wellington Day
February
- Crossed Lines: Ascended Masters and the Kiwis who channel them
- Facilitated Communication
- New Neuralink News
- Skepticism away from the Coal Face
- Watch this Space
- Crank Magnetism
- Cranks and Con-artists
- Crossed Lines: Ascended Masters and the Kiwis who channel them
- Membership Renewals
- Movie Review: The Mandela Effect
- Repeal of the Therapeutic Products Act 2023 – What does this mean?
- Response to a member's concern
March
April
- Bibles for sale!
- Crossed Lines: Ascended Masters and the Kiwis who channel them
- Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?
- End Times - A review
- Happy Skeptical Easter
- Sex.Life.Nonsense
- St. Patrick's Day
- UFOs in Auckland?
- Don't worry, this newsletter isn't going off air
- Fake reality TV
- Ghosts of futures' past: The fragility of digital archives
- RCR gets a reality check?
- Time Travelling Song Lyrics
- UFO Update
- Conspiracy loons update
- Ghosts in the Machine
- Oliveda/The Olive Tree People: $15,000 for what???!!
- The Case of the Spontaneous Chime: Ghosts or Glitches?
- The state of the Mo-nation: MLM Monat in turmoil in the US
- Trans-Tasman Troublemaking
May
- A Beautiful Display
- Aurora Skepticalis
- Marsden Pointless
- Movie Review: Late Night with the Devil
- Tarotmancer: A brief biography of Colin Amery
- A Visit to the School of Practical Philosophy
- Don the Astrologer
- Get schooled: A practical history of the School of Practical Philosophy
- Jason Momoa: From Aquaman to Aquascam
- NZ First's proposed "Fair Access to Bathrooms" Bill
- The Short and Long of It
June
- A Call from the Other Side
- A Visit to the Dunedin Spiritualist Church
- Michael Shermer used to be a good skeptic
- Product Review: Pearl Princess Face Mask
- Spiritual Shenanigans
- Tarotmancer: A brief biography of Colin Amery
- A Fortnight in Skeptical History
- Are sugar-free electrolyte drinks actually illegal in New Zealand?
- Dubious claims and “facts”
- Eyelashes on an Ichthyosaur
- In the YouTube Naughty Corner
- Matariki 2024
- New book from the Cotter Medical History Trust
July
- Hot-footing it in Fiji
- Jim Ring, Nelson
- Les Oeufs Pochés
- Souls of the dead tracking across the sky
- Stop crediting the placebo effect, it doesn't make you better!
- Tarotmancer: A brief biography of Colin Amery
- The Dunedin Spiritual Expo
- YouTube Update
- 900 ft. Jesus?
- Bogged Down by Mistakes: Tracking two hundred years of Irish Misinformation
- Global Skeptics in Cyberspace
- NZ Skeptics QR Codes
- Paper mills
- The Child Lord of the Universe: Prem Rawat and the Divine Light Mission, Part 1
August
- Intuitive Eating
- New research shows incidence of cardiac events lower after COVID-19 vaccination
- Olympic Level Cropping
- Paul Burns' 10k Challenge
- The Calm after the Steorn
- The child god grows up: Prem Rawat and the Divine Light Mission, Part 2
- The only good Cult is a DeCult
- Calling all Māori Atheists
- Mobile AI, over-promising and under-delivering
- Scientological Visit
- Systems of Human Judgement
- The Spiritualist Church of New Zealand Act 1924
September
- Goodbye, Craig!
- NZ Researcher Silenced
- Richard Dawkins is officially a curmudgeon
- Skeptical AV Club: Lost Resort (American Reality Series, 2020)
- The Thrill of the Chase
- The Throckmorton Sign
- A PEEK inside some Astrology Software
- A steaming pile of Horse Homeopathy
- The Dawning of the Age of Equuleus
- The <FAULT> in our stars: Digitising astrology
- Way remains murky for MDMA assisted therapy
- What the Elle?
- Be the Early Bird
- Learning from our mistakes: Problems with the New Zealand Anti-cult response of the 80s and 90s
- Mewing
- More variables please (with sprinkles on top)
- Ārepa: great minds drink alike? Or a storm in a drink bottle?
- Saeed's Millions
- The Most Inspiring Entrepreneur
October
November
- Against the wind: a blinkered view on the possible effects of climate change
- Ghost Hunting for Skeptics
- Go Green Garbage
- Going Green around the Gills
- There's a patch for that: LifeWave moves into New Zealand
- X39 Patches, brought to you by LifeWave
- Cryptids of New Zealand: Part 1
- God's Not Dead 3: A Light in Darkness
- Post Conference Thoughts
- Rationality and Skepticism, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G
- Wham, Bam, Autism Scam: Pew pew Autism lasers
December
- Cats and other Cryptids
- Chubby the AI cat: Another image scan, Elsagate 2024, or a bit of both?
- Cryptids of New Zealand: Part 2
- Jonathan Ayling - a wolf in sheep's clothing
- NZ Skeptics 2024 AGM Chair's Report
- The monster in the Nelson Lakes
- Alien Special
- How would a piano sound on Mars?
- Ring around Uranus: My Colonic, part 1
- The Great Nelson UFO
- The Men in Black are back! (They never went away)