Carl Wyant is a cheerful Auckland Skeptic and freelance writer.
Space Fiends Stole My Baby's Brain
1 November 1995
A sceptical mini-history of the crashed flying saucer saga
All the Trouble in the World
1 May 1995
Everyone will enjoy this book. Well, everyone except paranormalists, ecological alarmists, pseudo-scientists, feminists, left-wingers, the entire New Age community, and of course those eternally doom-ridden types who seem determined to drag everyone else down to their own level of self-imposed suffering.
Demons, Drought and Bullfeathers
1 February 1995
Pull up a chair and hearken to the tale of the Great Drought of '94
Dr Jekyll and Mrs McPherson
1 May 1994
Our intrepid correspondent finds himself suffering from that most fashionable of psychological afflictions, Multiple Personality Disorder!
The End Is Nigh - Or Thereabouts
1 February 1994
Are the End Times drawing nigh? Are fires and floods from heaven on the brink of seething down in wrathful purge, damning the damned and raising the faithful? Is God's finger poised on the panic button?
The Wyant Heavy-Weight Motor
1 August 1993
It may interest skeptics to know that I have solved the world's energy problems. The concept is surprisingly simple... but then works of great brilliance often are.
The Skeptical Hairdresser
1 May 1993
"Mind my left ear." cautioned Mrs X, "there's a needle in it."
When Faith-Healing Works
1 February 1993
Sometimes feeling better isn't a good sign at all... Carl Wyant recalls an occasion when faith healing showed itself better at handling symptoms than causes.
Angelic Sexism and the Politically Correct
1 November 1992
Are Skeptics pussy-footing around by not attacking the major source of superstition and pseudoscience -- religion?
The Devil and Mrs Smith
1 August 1992
It's a mindbending situation, but I guess you'd have to call me a skeptical believer. Like parapsychologist Susan Blackmore, personal experience inclined me towards the idea that supernatural events really happen.
Great Skeptics of History #4
1 May 1992
Juan Perez may not be one of the most well known Great Skeptics of History, but he was one of the bravest. Hilary Evans tells his story in "Visions, Apparitions, Alien Visitors". Towards the close of the eighteenth century, Perez, a Madrid workman, was arraigned by the Inquisition for denying that there existed a Devil with power to seize the human soul. He admitted this sin and explained why:
Out There
1 November 1991
by Howard Blum; Simon & Schuster 1990