John Scott
4 articles
15,632 words
(3908 words per article)
Years Published: 1994 - 2008
Professor Sir John Scott is President of the Royal Society of New Zealand and a professor at the Auckland School of Medicine.
Why do some good doctors become bad doctors?
In NZ Skeptic 82, John Welch wrote that there was something about general practice which attracts an interest in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Is it acceptable for medical graduates with a science degree to be allowed to carry on in this manner? Should we amend the medical registration so they can't? Is legislation needed to alter the culture-of doctors and society generally? This article is based on a presentation to the 2007 NZ Skeptics Conference.
The Global Messenger Hoax And The Misinformation Economy
At last year's conference, John Scott spoke on the problems of mixing misinformation and medicine.
Pseudo-medicine
This is a copy of a presentation given to the New Zealand Skeptics 1995 Conference in Auckland
Alien Ships in Our Skies
One of the perpetrators told the story behind the Grand Interplanetary Hoax of 1952 to the 1994 Skeptics' Conference.