Articles from 2024

• January

  • Monday 8th

    • The Year Ahead
    • Some predatory journals have no sense
    • Book Review: How Minds Change
    • The Jeremiad of Plissken Boon
    • Crossed Lines: Ascended Masters and the Kiwis who channel them
    • Pick a bogus treatment

  • Tuesday 23rd

    • You can't beat good on a Wellington Day
    • Yet another ISTA update
    • A Sovereign Citizen walks into a bar
    • A White Coat Cassandra
    • A very human update on the “living man”, Roger Blake
    • Dr Zach vs Rationality Rules
    • Circle-jerk-ing

• February

  • Monday 5th

    • Watch this Space
    • Facilitated Communication
    • Skepticism away from the Coal Face
    • New Neuralink News
    • Crossed Lines: Ascended Masters and the Kiwis who channel them

  • Monday 19th

    • Cranks and Con-artists
    • Repeal of the Therapeutic Products Act 2023 – What does this mean?
    • Response to a member's concern
    • Membership Renewals
    • Movie Review: The Mandela Effect
    • Crank Magnetism
    • Crossed Lines: Ascended Masters and the Kiwis who channel them

• March

  • Monday 4th

    • Nonsense knows no borders
    • How to shoot yourself in the foot: Alabama, rights of the Embryo
    • News on the news
    • Queen Pwnzalot
    • Majestic magical thinking

  • Monday 18th

    • Citizen Science Done Badly
    • Katikati Psychic Cafe
    • Effective Altruism at University
    • They See Me (Jade) Rollin'

• April

  • Tuesday 2nd

    • Happy Skeptical Easter
    • UFOs in Auckland?
    • St. Patrick's Day
    • Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?
    • End Times - A review
    • Bibles for sale!
    • Sex.Life.Nonsense
    • Crossed Lines: Ascended Masters and the Kiwis who channel them

  • Monday 15th

    • Don't worry, this newsletter isn't going off air
    • UFO Update
    • Ghosts of futures' past: The fragility of digital archives
    • Fake reality TV
    • RCR gets a reality check?
    • Time Travelling Song Lyrics

  • Monday 29th

    • Ghosts in the Machine
    • The Case of the Spontaneous Chime: Ghosts or Glitches?
    • Conspiracy loons update
    • The state of the Mo-nation: MLM Monat in turmoil in the US
    • Oliveda/The Olive Tree People: $15,000 for what???!!
    • Trans-Tasman Troublemaking

• May

  • Monday 13th

    • Aurora Skepticalis
    • A Beautiful Display
    • Movie Review: Late Night with the Devil
    • Tarotmancer: A brief biography of Colin Amery
    • Marsden Pointless

  • Monday 27th

    • The Short and Long of It
    • NZ First's proposed "Fair Access to Bathrooms" Bill
    • Don the Astrologer
    • A Visit to the School of Practical Philosophy
    • Get schooled: A practical history of the School of Practical Philosophy
    • Jason Momoa: From Aquaman to Aquascam

• June

  • Monday 10th

    • Spiritual Shenanigans
    • A Visit to the Dunedin Spiritualist Church
    • Product Review: Pearl Princess Face Mask
    • A Call from the Other Side
    • Tarotmancer: A brief biography of Colin Amery
    • Michael Shermer used to be a good skeptic

  • Monday 24th

    • Dubious claims and “facts”
    • New book from the Cotter Medical History Trust
    • Are sugar-free electrolyte drinks actually illegal in New Zealand?
    • In the YouTube Naughty Corner
    • Matariki 2024
    • Eyelashes on an Ichthyosaur
    • A Fortnight in Skeptical History

• July

  • Monday 8th

    • Les Oeufs Pochés
    • Jim Ring, Nelson
    • Hot-footing it in Fiji
    • Stop crediting the placebo effect, it doesn't make you better!
    • The Dunedin Spiritual Expo
    • YouTube Update
    • Tarotmancer: A brief biography of Colin Amery
    • Souls of the dead tracking across the sky

  • Monday 22nd

    • Global Skeptics in Cyberspace
    • Bogged Down by Mistakes: Tracking two hundred years of Irish Misinformation
    • Paper mills
    • The Child Lord of the Universe: Prem Rawat and the Divine Light Mission, Part 1
    • 900 ft. Jesus?
    • NZ Skeptics QR Codes

• August

  • Monday 5th

    • The only good Cult is a DeCult
    • Paul Burns' 10k Challenge
    • Olympic Level Cropping
    • Intuitive Eating
    • New research shows incidence of cardiac events lower after COVID-19 vaccination
    • The child god grows up: Prem Rawat and the Divine Light Mission, Part 2
    • The Calm after the Steorn

  • Monday 19th

    • Calling all Māori Atheists
    • Scientological Visit
    • Mobile AI, over-promising and under-delivering
    • The Spiritualist Church of New Zealand Act 1924
    • Systems of Human Judgement

• September

  • Monday 2nd

    • Goodbye, Craig!
    • NZ Researcher Silenced
    • The Throckmorton Sign
    • Skeptical AV Club: Lost Resort (American Reality Series, 2020)
    • The Thrill of the Chase
    • Richard Dawkins is officially a curmudgeon

  • Monday 16th

    • The Dawning of the Age of Equuleus
    • What the Elle?
    • A steaming pile of Horse Homeopathy
    • The <FAULT> in our stars: Digitising astrology
    • A PEEK inside some Astrology Software
    • Way remains murky for MDMA assisted therapy

  • Monday 30th

    • Be the Early Bird
    • Learning from our mistakes: Problems with the New Zealand Anti-cult response of the 80s and 90s
    • More variables please (with sprinkles on top)
    • Mewing
    • Ārepa: great minds drink alike? Or a storm in a drink bottle?
    • The Most Inspiring Entrepreneur
    • Saeed's Millions

• October

  • Monday 14th

    • No Rest for the Wicked
    • Aura Points
    • All Hallows Eve
    • A Short Conversation with Ken Ring
    • Wham, Bam, Autism Scams: Reversing Autism through diet and therapy
    • Weaponising Words

  • Tuesday 29th

    • Thoroughly DeCulted
    • Decompressing from DeCult
    • Anti-Ageing Straws
    • Equine Touch
    • How to save money at the pump
    • Superhero science IRL

• November

  • Monday 11th

    • Going Green around the Gills
    • Go Green Garbage
    • X39 Patches, brought to you by LifeWave
    • There's a patch for that: LifeWave moves into New Zealand
    • Against the wind: a blinkered view on the possible effects of climate change
    • Ghost Hunting for Skeptics

  • Monday 25th

    • Rationality and Skepticism, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G
    • Post Conference Thoughts
    • Wham, Bam, Autism Scam: Pew pew Autism lasers
    • Cryptids of New Zealand: Part 1
    • God's Not Dead 3: A Light in Darkness

• December

  • Monday 9th

    • Cats and other Cryptids
    • Chubby the AI cat: Another image scan, Elsagate 2024, or a bit of both?
    • Cryptids of New Zealand: Part 2
    • The monster in the Nelson Lakes
    • Jonathan Ayling - a wolf in sheep's clothing
    • NZ Skeptics 2024 AGM Chair's Report

  • Monday 23rd

    • Alien Special
    • How would a piano sound on Mars?
    • The Men in Black are back! (They never went away)
    • The Great Nelson UFO
    • Ring around Uranus: My Colonic, part 1