Philip Bradley

This is my last newsletter. I am pleased to be handing over the editorship to Denis Dutton. I feel I have been very fortunate in the quality of contributions I have received and to have had regular ... (74 words)

Popular books on the paranormal often source their supporting evidence from all over the world. While this may seem to enhance an argument's credibility by giving the impression the phenomenon in ... (2251 words)

At the 1989 NZCSICOP conference Dr Denis Dutton generalised that women's magazines contained horoscopes and men's magazines didn't. A female voice rightly objected that Broadsheet was horoscope-less. ... (1665 words)

Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of New York, 1985. (Reviewed by P.A.B.) If I had left school at the end of the Fifth Form and had no particular interest in science or religion I believe this book ... (1441 words)

When Benjamin Creme first visited New Zealand in January 1989, I was overseas. Fortunately, the prophet of the returned Christ decided to pay a return visit. I arrived for the meeting (Quality Inn, ... (871 words)

Cremism, a mixture of esotericism and socialism, is an offshoot from the Alice Bailey offshoot from Theosophy. Its beliefs may be summarised thus: 1) There are spiritual beings who collectively ... (710 words)

The New Zealand Woman's Weekly has been the recipient of a New Zealand Skeptics' Bent Spoon Award. Does Broadsheet, "New Zealand's feminist magazine", make a more intelligent response to matters of ... (1944 words)

The New Truth articles on the "Disappearing Regiment" were examined in New Zealand Skeptic No. 15. A curious sequel to these stories, headed "Mystery clouds hold secret to rail horror!", appeared in ... (2115 words)

The following may interest those who hesitate at the idea of "mushroom rings" being evidence of UFO landings—or of fairy shindigs. A single mushroom can release over a billion spores. For a mushroom ... (409 words)

With immigration a topical issue, some New Zealanders may be interested in an article in a recent Omni (January 1990) which looks at apocalyptic prophecies. In it Mark Harwell of Cornell University's ... (168 words)

Ray Carr was a fine example of an active Skeptic. Last year he noticed that the prospectus for East City Community Education (Auckland) offered a course in astrology. The prospectus even claimed the ... (368 words)

There were some strange responses to New Zealand's first big earthquake prediction. On 10 February the public notices columns of The Dominion contained the following advertisement: SAN DOMARAHE ... (2064 words)

Warwick Don was elected at the AGM to succeed Prof. Tony Vignaux as Chairman of the New Zealand Skeptics. Mr Don, a senior lecturer in Zoology at the University of Otago, was a founding member of the ... (135 words)

"Three Kiwi soldiers' shock claim 'ALIENS TOOK GALLIPOLI REGIMENT". So declared the front page of New Truth's 25 August 1989 issue. Inside we read that at Gallipoli in 1915, a British regiment, the ... (782 words)

Is it the influence of New Age vegetarian extremists?: the latest paranormal enthusiasms are cress seed-sprouting (it's a more growing experience than metal spoon-bending) and crop circles. We have ... (435 words)

According to the Otago Daily Times, 19 June 1989: "British pathologists have challenged the palmist's belief that your hand can reveal the secret of how long you can live. Examining 100 bodies in a ... (1621 words)

— by R.F. Keam. Published by the author. $169.00 (inc GST and packing & postage within New Zealand). Reviewed by Philip Bradley. "He says the new light he throws on the phantom canoe said to have ... (2756 words)

No doubt the dates for the 1988 conference were selected after consultation with the noted Christchurch psychic Omniscia. The vibes clearly showed 20/21 August to be good for discussing ... (655 words)

Nostradamus and the Millenium. By John Hogue. Bloomsbury/Roulston Greene. 1987. 209 pp. Illustrations. $45, (Reviewed by Philip Bradley) In a book with a striking, post-modernistic cover, Nostradamus ... (584 words)