NZ Skeptics Articles

After moving to New Zealand from the US in 1970, with a masters degree in chemistry, Louette McInnes taught science and maths at New Zealand high schools for more than 40 years.

Evolution book one for the library

1 May 2009

Evolution - What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters. Donald R Prothero, Columbia University Press. Reviewed by Louette McInnes.

Life not so implausible after all

1 November 2007

The Plausibility of Life-resolving Darwin's dilemma, by Marc Kirschner and John Gerhart. Yale University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-300-10865-6. Reviewed by Louette McInnes.

Natural born liars

1 November 2006

Louette McInnes found a talk by Richard Wiseman at Canterbury University well worth braving the winter cold for. Professor Wiseman holds the Chair of Public Understanding of Psychology at Hertfordshire University.