Claire Le Couteur is a past secretary of the New Zealand Skeptics. She has worked in science research, teaching and freelance writing, and gained a PhD in medical history.
New book from the Cotter Medical History Trust
24 June 2024
New Zealand had a remarkable number of quacks and fraudsters active in the early 20th Century. They travelled the length and breadth of the country promoting their curative gadgets. The Cotter Collection includes many of these devices, and even a completed phrenology chart. A medicine chest contains pills and potions thought to provide cures for many common complaints. The outright quacks, who invariably came via Australia, once exposed in New Zealand returned to cause further mayhem there.
Old Rope and Dodgy Memories
1 November 2003
Claire Le Couteur reports from the 2003 Skeptics' Conference in Wellington.