Harry Broad is a Pest Control Advocacy Coordinator for the Department of Conservation

Heather Mackay is a NZCSICOP Inc committee member who lives in Auckland.

Howard Bezar was a scientist with Crop & Food Research.

Assistant Commissioner Ian Holyoake is the Police Region Commander for Otago and Southland.

Ian Luxmore is a lecturer in Resource and Environmental Planning at Massey Universiry and is currently doing a aPhD in macroeconomic exergy modelling

Ian McGibbon is a New Zealand historian specialising in military and political history of the 20th century. He has published several books on New Zealand participation in the First and Second World Wars.

Ian Plimer is an Australian geologist and professor emeritus at the University of Melbourne.

Ian Wishart is editor of Investigate magazine.

Iris Riddell is a Waikato journalist

James Allan teaches in the Faculty of Law at the University of Otago.

James Gilberd lives in Wellington and receives many alleged paranormal photographs via emil through the website www.strange-occurences.com. He is an experienced professional photographer who is happy to offer analyses of photographs sent in.

Jane Millichamp is a Registered Psychologist and Professional Practice Fellow at the Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago.

PhD Student at Victoria University

Ms Jenny Barnett is in the Department of Sociology at Victoria University of Wellington.

Dr Jim Woolnough was an advocate for abortion law reform in New Zealand, and an active supporter of the Humanist Society of NZ.

Joanna Wojnar is a PhD student at the Marine Chemistry Lab, Victoria University of Wellington.

Joe Nickell is a Senior Research Fellow with the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal and author of "Inquest on the Shroud of Turin".

Joe Schwarcz is the Director for the Office for Science and Society at McGill University in Montreal. This article is reprinted with permission from his column in the Montreal Gazette, The Right Chemistry. In November 2011 he visited New Zealand to attend conferences in Hamilton and Christchurch

John Britten is completing his medical training at the Christchurch School of Medicine.

John Gardner is a former assistant editor of the NZ Herald.

John Keast was born in Ashburton in 1955, and worked for many years as a journalist in both New Zealand and Australia.

Dr John Robinson is an applied mathematician. Over the past 35 years he has expanded his interests to include economics, sociology, ecology and history, in order to informhis understanding of the global and national future

John Walker is Reader in Plant Biochemistry at the University of Canterbury, where he investigates novel drugs from NZ native plants.

In 2006 Judith Goodyear was a Year 8 student at Albany Junior High School

Judy Cleine has a BA in Literature, and an MA in Religious Studies from Canterbury University.

Judy McDonald is a Hamilton skeptic with an interest in education.

Kellie Fitzmaurice is at Victoria University of Wellington.

Ken Perrott is a retired research scientist who formerly worked at Victoria University of Wellington, DSIR (Chemistry Division & Soil Bureau), MAF and AgResearch.

Kendrick Frazier is editor of the Skeptical Inquirer.

Dr Kylie Sturgess is a lecturer in Global Media and Communication at Murdoch University, Western Australia. Much of Kylie's research focuses on narrative structure, popular podcasts, media education, philosophy and popular beliefs.

Lewis Jones is a London-based free-lance editor and writer.