Authors

Colin Woodhouse is a nurse working for the Canterbury District Health Board, with a passion for ensuring that pastoral care meets the needs of everyone, regardless of their belief.

Damian Thompson writes for the Daily Telegraph newspaper in the UK.

Dannette Marie is a founding members of Te Runanga o Nga Maata Waka Research Advisory Board (Christchurch). She may be contact at dmarie@psy.otago.ac.nz or c/- the Department of Psychology, the University of Otago.

David is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at Macquarie University in Australia.

David Mackenzie is a physics PhD student studying nanotechnology at Canterbury University. This article initally appeared in the university student newspaper Canta on 23 July 2008.

David Novitz is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Canterbury

Dean Conger is a physician who emigrated to NZ from the USA in 2010 with his partner and children. He completed his medical degree in 1991 and finished specialty training in Ophthalmology (eyes) in 1997. A mid-career sabbatical begun in 2008 led to the family getting on a sailboat and cruising around the Pacific ocean for 2 years before finally sailing into Waitemata Harbor. He works primarily at Counties Manukau DHB.

Denis Curtain is a scientist with Crop & Food Research.

Derek Rompot is the Vice Chairman of REALL and is only prevented from becoming a full-time Tarot card reader by the fact that he has a conscience.

Deryn Strange is a PhD student specialising in children's suggestibility.

Des Gorman is Head of the Occpational Medicine Department at the Auckland University School of Medicine.

Sir Donald Beaven was a New Zealand medical researcher in the area of diabetes treatment and prevention.

Professor Edzard Ernst is Director of the Centre for Complementary Health Studies at the University of Exeter.

Elf Eldridge is a PhD student with the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, and president of the Wellington branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Elizabeth Feigon is a Boston psychiatrist and co-author of Recovered Memory Therapy: Profession at a Turning Point

Elizabeth Rata teaches in the Faculty of Education at Auckland University and is an Honorary Research Fellow in Political Studies and founding member of the Politics of Social Regulation Research Group. She was a Fulbright Senior Scholar to Georgetown University, Washington DC in 2003. With Roger Openshaw she is the author of Public Policy and Ethnicity: The Politics of Ethnic Boundary-Making. (Palgrave Macmillan Publishing, 2006).

Erich Geiringer was a writer, publisher and broadcaster, and the founder of the New Zealand Medical Association.

PhD student at Victoria University

Fiona Carruthers works for the New Zealand Beef and Lamb Marketing Bureau, Takapuna, Auckland.

Dr. Ruehl is a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics, a Ufologist, an Author, a Lecturer and a Columnist.

Frederick Crews is an American essayist and literary critic, and the author of numerous books.

Gail Thomas is a biology and science teacher working in Auckland. She has a degree in biochemistry from the University of Sussex, England.

Gaylene Middleton is a longtime council member of the Humanist Society of NZ.

Gene Emery writes the Skeptical Inquirer's "Media Watch" column.

Gerrit J. van der Lingen is a Christchurch geologist and Skeptic.

Gina Kolata is a New York Times reporter focused on diseases and treatments.

Gordon Waugh is a retired Air Force officer with over 30 years of electronics experience. He was a foundation and executive member of Casualties of Sexual Allegations (COSA) a national organisation dedicated to helping men and their families damaged by false allegations of sexual abuse.

Graeme Oldnall is a philosopher and technical writer

Dr Hamilton Hill is in the Medical Faculty of the University of Toronto.