Authors

Rayna Ramsay is an IT professional, as well as being a keen photographer and kayaker, and a regular at Auckland Skeptics in the Pub meetings.

Richard Alexander is an award-winning model aeroplane designer, and a long-time member of the Wellington Skeptics in the Pub.

Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist and author.

Richard Feynman was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium.

Robert E. Bartholomew is a sociologist at James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

Dr Robert Mann taught Biochemistry in the University of Auckland and then became its first and last Senior Lecturer in Environmental Studies. In retirement he now works mainly on appropriate technology.

Robert Morris was an American psychologist, parapsychologist and professor at the University of Edinburgh, where he was the first holder of the Koestler Chair of Parapsychology at the Koestler Parapsychology Unit.

Robert Schaeffer writes for the Bay Area Skeptics, USA.

As well as spending time on the NZ Skeptics committee, Robert Woolf was the chair of the Waitakere branch of Forest and Bird.

Robin Bodley is a retired electrical engineer, and has a keen interest in proving that the world is not flat.

Robin McKenzie is a Kapiti Coast-based physiotherapist and founder of the McKenzie Institute. He received an OBE in 1990 and in 2000 was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to physiotherapy.

Robin Shepherd is a research psychologist at Auckland University who also conducts research in gambling and social phobia; however, studying paranormal phenomena is her passion. People who have rung psychic hotlines excessively, or have worked on a psychic hotline and who wish to participate in this survey, can contact the author at rm.shepherd@auckland.ac.nz.

Robyn Ramsden is a self-taught bookbinder, classical historian, wahine, wife, mother, occasional gardener, and a climate change educator and activist.

Roger Cooper was a Paleontologist with the New Zealand Geographic Survey. In NZ, Roger was known for his work on Early Paleozoic fossils and geological history while he was known internationally for using new quantitative approaches to refine the international geological time scale for the Ordovician and Silurian periods Roger died in 2020.

Ross Miller is a retired Presbyterian minister

Dr Ruth Frampton specialises in biosecurity matters, both nationally and internationally, and until May worked for Maf leading the ministry's Painted Apple Moth eradication programme.

Ruth Walker is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Waikato.

Ruth Zanker was the founding chair of the Children’s Television Foundation, a group that was instrumental in ensuring funding for local children’s television after deregulation of the industry in the late 1980s.

Sally B. Donnelly was a reporter for Time Magazine for 20 years. She also served as the Senior Advisor to Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis.

Sara Passmore is the former Head of Education and Promotion at the British Humanist Association (BHA) where she was responsible for promoting understanding of Humanism, including through an educational setting, and for promoting the BHA to diverse audiences.

Sheree is a healthcare worker in Invercargill, and an ex-committee member of the NZ Skeptics.

Shirley Lowe was a novelist, reporter, and editor for numerous British publications including THE TIMES and THE SUNDAY TIMES

Dr Simon Pollard is Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at Canterbury Museum and a natural history photographer and writer. He was awarded Science Communicator of the Year in 2007 by the NZ Association of Scientists.

Simon Gemmill plays drums in a band and teaches in Christchurch.

Simon Upton is a former New Zealand politician and member of Parliament from 1981 to 2001, representing the National Party, and later the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment.

Stan Darling is the former Editor and features writer for Christchurch newspaper, THE PRESS

Stu Cottam is an early childhoood teacher from Nelson

Sven Ove Hansson is a Swedish philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy and chair of the Department of Philosophy and History of Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He is an author and scientific skeptic, with a special interest in environmental risk assessment, as well as in decision theory and belief revision.

Taner Edis is a graduate student in physics at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, manager of the Skeptics e-mail discussion group and curmudgeon at a premature age.

Tim Beardsley studied zoology at the Universty of Oxford before becoming a journalist for Scientific American.

Tim Price is the CTO of a New Zealand telecommunications company, and holds a Diploma of Business Computing.

Tom Genoni was the CSICOP West Coast Bureau Chief at the Center for Inquiry West in Los Angeles, California.

Tony Wolf is a fight director, stage combat tutor and practitioner of physical theater based in Wellington, New Zealand.

Wendy Grossman is a member of the UK Skeptics, and a writer and folksinger.

William Bown received a degree in Mathematics before working as a journalist at The Independent and New Scientist.

Christine Jaurigue is a past editor of the NZ Skeptic. She has also been a teacher in Wellington, and was the news team editor for Atheist Alliance International.

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