Articles tagged with "advertisements"

Armchair activism and amber

1 August 2014

Mark Hanna reports on how to use the Advertising Standards Authority to fight back against the promotion of questionable therapies.

Being a thorn in the side of pseudoscience

1 February 2013

The Advertising Standards Authority provides an accessible platform for members of the public to take on the merchants of woo. This article is based on a presentation to the 2012 NZ Skeptics Conference.

The ASCB Maria Duval decision

1 August 2005

On 14 June 2005 the Advertising Standards Complaints Board met to consider Complaint 05/116, filed by Martin Craig for the Consumers' Institute, concerning the Maria Duval psychic services advertisements. This is an abridged version of their deliberations.