Annette Taylor has personal experience of a phenomenon that lies behind many tales of ghosts, demonic possession, and alien abduction. I was asleep. Marley, our cat, was faster asleep by my side. ... (757 words)

Intelligent Design ruled a pretext for religion in the classroom In a decision which sets an important precedent for US science education, a court has ruled against the teaching of the theory of ... (1338 words)

Australians turn up the Heat on Pan Breaking news as this issue goes to press (Waikato Times, April 30 and elsewhere) is the recall by Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) of 219 ... (1276 words)

UFOs & ALIEN CONTACT: Two Centuries Of Mystery, Robert Bartholomew and George Howard. Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, USA. READERS of NZ Skeptic will have seen R.E. Bartholomew's article "The ... (764 words)

Broadcasting Standards and... Vicki Hyde told the Conference how the Skeptics' complaint to the Broadcasting Standards Authority had progressed. The story so far... As outlined in the last issue ... (1839 words)

How TVNZ Turned a Hoax into a Documentary The Skeptics make their first-ever complaint to the Broadcasting Standards Authority. Few would disagree these days that a great many programmes broadcast on ... (2095 words)

THE GREYS may have crash landed on Earth in 1947, but the real invasion happened about two years ago when Bill Barker's SCHWA merchandise first hit the streets. Since then it seems that there is Grey ... (716 words)

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a candle in the dark, by Carl Sagan. Headline, $29.95. In 1656 Thomas Ady, in his book A Candle in the Dark, was one of the first to speak out against the witch ... (522 words)

IT'S BEEN a quiet old time in the Waikato, these past few months. My cat hasn't channelled any past lives, nor has she been abducted by aliens. I suspect, though, the little green guys made off with ... (605 words)

Thanks to a member who was present, we now have a set of audiotapes which record the complete proceedings of the 1994 CSICOP Conference in Seattle, on The Psychology of Belief Topics discussed ... (92 words)

An abridged version of the Skeptical Enquirer's report of the session dealing with "alien abductions" at the Seattle CSICOP Conference on "The Psychology of Belief" Many of us have been reading ... (474 words)