Articles from 2025

• January

  • Monday 6th

    • Aliens Special
    • Revisiting Drake
    • Visiting Share International
    • The History of Share International
    • The Aliens are Coming! The Aliens are Coming!
    • Ring around Uranus: My Colonic, part 2

  • Tuesday 21st

    • New Year, New Nonsense
    • Introducing our new Climate Correspondent
    • Skeptical Updates
    • Global Flourishing is Back
    • The Six weeks of Scamming
    • Hip-singing and vocal fry; why do I hate them so much?
    • Who were the first New Zealanders? Addressing disinformation regarding Māori as not indigenous, part 1
    • A New Age Myth: the Kaimanawa Wall

• February

  • Monday 3rd

    • Anyone been to the Kaimanawa Wall?
    • Honey: Kessler's Flying Circus on Steroids
    • We Saw the Canterbury Panther!
    • Incoming Asteroid just might hit earth
    • Movie Review: Heretic
    • Who were the first New Zealanders? Addressing disinformation regarding Māori as not indigenous, part 2
    • Medicine and Health

  • Tuesday 18th

    • A day late, but still skeptical
    • Michael Connett's Wellington Talk
    • Apple Cider Vinegar
    • Issues logical and lexical: A scavenger hunt through Jessica Ainscough's digital detritus
    • Are democratic politics and capitalism suitable for dealing with climate change?
    • No, This Is NOT Sand Under a Microscope
    • A Review of “UFO Warning” by John Stuart (1963)

• March

  • Monday 3rd

    • Are These Better Work Stories?
    • Mulder would be QAnon: The deep roots of a modern conspiracy
    • The health benefits of mandated leave
    • Keep it real online
    • Majorana 1: A new state of matter?
    • ISTA (International School of the Temple Arts) and Highden make actual headlines
    • SEO Silliness

  • Monday 17th

    • 210 - Wind Speed or IQ?
    • TikTok Telekinesis: Fun or Foily
    • Cyclone Alfred Nonsense
    • Two recent Climate Science articles
    • Chris Langan - Smartest Man in the World?

  • Monday 31st

    • The Machines are Revolting
    • Three Climate Change Snippets
    • SEO Shenanigans: A story in four emails
    • You all need a GMO warning label!
    • Wham, Bam, Autism Scams: Wasting resources, and having conflicts of interest, in a White House that claims to want neither
    • Sovereign Citizens: Part One - Intro, Police and Councils

• April

  • Monday 14th

    • What's your Horsenality?
    • NZ Post Scams: A little bit of Activism
    • Sovereign Citizens: Part Two – Justices of the Peace
    • Parelli Natural Horsemanship: Horsing around with pseudoscience?
    • EMF can't hurt you if you're dead: A new nadir for the electrosensitivity industry

  • Monday 28th

    • Papal Mor(t)ality
    • Catholic Conspiracies
    • Holy Weed and Holy Forgeries
    • SoulCore - Catholic Yoga
    • EMF WooWoo
    • Sovereign Citizens: Part Three - the Courts
    • April Climate snippets

• May

  • Monday 12th

    • I'd like to be... under the sea
    • Charting a path to health for all at net-zero emissions
    • How Creationism Hurts My Brain
    • Could Octopodes take over the world?
    • Commonwealth Covenant Church: A forgotten NZ sect

  • Monday 26th

    • Skeptic or Geese?
    • Update on the Two by Twos
    • Review: Under His Command
    • Is 'mansplaining' a thing?
    • Better a Skeptic than Two Geese

• June

  • Monday 9th

    • We're still here!
    • How do we really know?
    • The Golden Dome
    • A summary of “Increased transparency in accounting conventions could benefit climate policy”
    • A brief history of immortality: 80 years of Cryonics, Part 1
    • Seed Imprinting and Anastasia's Ringing Cedars

  • Monday 23rd

    • Live Long and Prosper
    • A brief history of immortality: 80 years of Cryonics Part 2
    • Radical Life Extension
    • How long can humans live?
    • Recommended for Everyone

• July

  • Monday 7th

    • Midwinter Musings
    • Diet Coke Blind Test
    • Over-confidence and Cola
    • Ringing Cedars in New Zealand?
    • Grandfathered Homeopathy
    • A brief history of immortality: 80 years of Cryonics Part 3

  • Monday 21st

    • Some very new news
    • Neuroplasticity and nootropics
    • Pioneer Ministry's Revival Night
    • Possessed doll strikes again?
    • Children of the Waning Star

• August

  • Monday 4th

    • A Ray of Sunshine
    • Wham, Bam, Autism scams: The Telepathy Tapes Part 1
    • Quantum communication in telepathy
    • The Talk Tracks
    • Goodbye Activism

  • Monday 18th

    • Conference Clarity
    • Gadget Scams
    • Wham, Bam, Autism scams: The Telepathy Tapes Part 2
    • The Telepathy Tapes Talk Tracks Two: Back for More
    • Matters of consequence

• September

  • Monday 1st

    • Remember, Remember the 4th of September
    • The Covid Response - a Talk in Christchurch
    • Skeptical Updates
    • Numeracy and Health Outcomes
    • Has FC Changed since the early 1990s? Part 1
    • Silkposting and Rabbit Holes
    • Report on the Ora Taiao Annual Meeting

  • Monday 15th

    • Oops, I forgot
    • Has FC Changed since the early 1990s? Part 2
    • Birth Control Blues: TikTok is pushing contraceptive skepticism, but are influencers getting the science right?
    • The End of the World as we know it: September 24th
    • Wham, Bam, Autism scams: The Telepathy Tapes Part 3
    • Hastings Water Fluoridation: A Tale told in Headlines

  • Monday 29th

    • Are We the Scabs?
    • Skeptic Scabs
    • Clearing the Air “Not the end of the world”
    • The 2025 Keto Mice Update
    • Why was the Rapture predicted for September the 24th? And why didn't it happen?
    • Wham, Bam, Autism scams: Paracetamol.

• October

  • Monday 13th

    • It was the Weirdest of Times
    • Wham, Bam, Autism scams: Circumcisions and Autism
    • MedBeds
    • The Actual War on Science
    • The Rapture and the Julian Calendar
    • Gerson Therapy strikes again
    • More bad medicine: Updates on the Zholia Alemi case
    • Avi Loeb Strikes Again

  • Tuesday 28th

    • More UFO books than credible sightings
    • Interview Request for Student Magazine Project
    • Where is Aotearoa's climate change work, & where should it be
    • This fortnight in skeptical history - October 28th to November 9th
    • The Problem with Family Court Social Science
    • MENZ vs Reality

• November

  • Monday 10th

    • Help us to help Siouxsie
    • Donate to Siouxsie and double your money
    • Win any argument… ridiculously
    • Why aren't we skeptical about climate change?
    • Please don't offer me opinion disguised as fact
    • Lux, Silver, and Elektra: The true-and-false history of Aristasia, Part 1

  • Monday 24th

    • CO3? CO4? How much is too much CO2?
    • How low do we want the amount of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere?
    • Hunt, Gather, Parent - Book Review
    • The ghost in the machine: Are Hatch alarm clocks the highway to hell?
    • Review: Under His Command, Season 2

• December

  • Monday 8th

    • Royalty at our AGM
    • Doomsday Comedy reaches New Zealand
    • 2025 AGM Chair's Report
    • Give me 3D printed dinners (please)
    • Can Elephants Hold Their Drink?
    • Lux, Silver, and Elektra: The true-and-false history of Aristasia, Part 2

  • Monday 22nd

    • Alone in Tokyo
    • What's Mike's number? - ideal CO2 levels
    • Fortnight in skeptical history - December 22 to January 4th
    • Ken Ring's Earthquake predictions for 2025
    • Review: The Manhattan Alien Abduction