So I want to talk about an interesting arrest that happened yesterday, but not the arrest of Brian and Hannah Tamaki. @youtube A woman called Vanessa Price was visited by the police yesterday ... (369 words)

I'm sure everyone is aware of the protests that happened yesterday. I watched them from the comfort of my home, and didn't feel the need to visit this particular march on Parliament. There was one ... (478 words)

Dr Samantha Murton, president of the Royal NZ College of GPs, has spoken out about the problems of social media "influencers" who spread wellness misinformation online. Although many influential ... (792 words)

There is an increasingly vocal sub-set of farmers around the country who are buying into conspiracy theories. A group called the Agricultural Action Group - AAG - have been touring the country in ... (402 words)

Sue Grey, Nelson lawyer and co-leader of The Outdoors Party (an anti-vax, anti-5g, anti-1080 political party), had her day in court last week, taking the government to court over their COVID vaccine ... (735 words)

There's been a lot of talk recently in "alternative" circles about vaccine deaths. This has been prompted by the massive global rollout of several different types of COVID vaccines - mRNA (Pfizer, ... (898 words)

An article was published by Stuff the other day about cosmetic acupuncture - a discredited idea that sticking needles in your face can be an alternative to paying for a face lift. Half way through ... (362 words)

The Exclusive Brethren is a "high control" church run from Sydney by Bruce Hales, the "Elect Vessel". "High control" is a term used to describe groups where the leadership exert a high degree of ... (336 words)

A work colleague reached out to me the other day with an interesting question. One of his close family members has fallen down a conspiracy rabbit hole, and now spends a lot of time talking about ... (860 words)

The Outdoors Party's health spokesperson recently shared a video clip from the TV show Dexter, showing a scene where the serial killer protagonist of the show remembers being rescued as a child from ... (296 words)

On Saturday I attended one of several Freedom Rallies around the country. In Wellington, the rally was set for midday at the train station. It was a fairly low key affair, with flyers being handed ... (444 words)

We've just had the second anniversary of the horrific Christchurch massacre, and as skeptics it's sad to have seen over the last two years those in our country who have posted content denying that ... (683 words)

Alex Jones, who runs the website InfoWars, seems to be coming apart at the seams. For background, InfoWars is a website and "news" TV channel where Alex Jones pushes conspiracy news stories, and ... (308 words)

BBC Newsweek A fun new conspiracy theory has popped up in America, called QAnon. The name comes from the signature of the person who started the conspiracy, Q, posting on the 4chan internet board ... (430 words)

I've found another fun conspiracy theory - V2K. Weirdly, it stands for "Voice to Skull" and is a technology where voices can be beamed directly to your head. This is another conspiracy theory that ... (301 words)

The NZ Herald seems to think so, republishing a Daily Mail article this week about a lie detector test that Buzz Aldrin apparently took recently to prove that he believes he saw an alien craft on his ... (457 words)

A recent poll in the US showed an alarming amount of disbelief about whether our world is round. The survey of 8,000 Americans showed that whereas the vast majority of over 55s are happy accepting ... (213 words)

In an article on the NZ Herald, reprinted from the Washington Post, Christopher Mellon argues that there is solid evidence for UFOs, and that the US are not doing enough to investigate. Christopher ... (182 words)

The conspiracy theorists are out in force already after the recent school shooting tragedy. One of the survivors, 17 year old David Hogg, has gone on national TV in the US to publicly state that he's ... (214 words)

Elon Musk's company SpaceX successfully launched their first Falcon Heavy rocket this week, after a recent successful launch in New Zealand by RocketLab. It's been a good time for private space ... (402 words)

In a recent article Cracked dot com has pointed out flaws in several popular conspiracy theories. The first one I've been telling people for years - that if the moon landing was faked, the Russians ... (282 words)

These days, with modern technology, it only takes a matter of days after most tragic events before conspiracy theorists have converged on an "alternative narrative". For the Sandy Hook massacre, ... (595 words)

I recently found out that a movement which is popular in America has reached our shores. The Freeman movement, otherwise known as Sovereign Citizens, consists of people who believe that it is ... (436 words)

Vinny Eastwood has suggested that the new head of the Labour Party is in league with the Freemasons: have you done any investigation into her background to confirm that she has no connection with ... (231 words)

Last week I learned about a new conspiracy theory from Weather Wars International, a Facebook group dedicated to spreading nonsense about government control of the weather. A video posted to the ... (554 words)

Alex Jones, anchor man of the news outlet InfoWars in the US, hosted Robert David Steele on his show this week, and talked about Robert's theory that NASA are holding slave children on Mars. This has ... (156 words)

Robert Bigelow is convinced that aliens are not only real, but they have visited earth and are living on our planet. He believes that his grandparents were visited by an alien craft, and says that he ... (334 words)

A claim has been made by Noel Hilliam that European settlers beat Maori to settling NZ, and that reconstruction of skulls from a woman and man have shown that they originated in Wales and the ... (197 words)

Nigel Antony Gray, who shot to infamy last November when he "predicted" an earthquake, gave a talk in Petone last night. Nigel recently expressed his displeasure with me by saying that I have been ... (282 words)

Here are my bullet points and photos from David Icke's recent 12 hour talk given in Auckland: A lot of the slides looked like internet memes Schools are programming prisons - they're programming a ... (505 words)

Tom DeLonge, the guitarist of a rock band in the US which was popular in the early 2000s has denied rumours that he's quit the band to focus on research into UFOs and aliens. @youtube Tom appears to ... (121 words)

The Bilderberg Group met last week, and there were protests by the usual conspiracy crowd. Alex Jones had some choice words to say about the meeting on BBC's Sunday Politics. He started by talking ... (157 words)

The Mandela Effect is where people have false memories of past events, and decide that there's been a jump to an alternative universe where history is different. The name comes from the first ... (314 words)

Antonin Scalia, a conservative Supreme Court judge in the US, died this week at age 79. Scalia took some strange legal views in his time, such as this one on evolution: The body of scientific ... (365 words)

In the United States, the Texas board of education is very important because the state is so large. This means that the board has a large sway over which textbooks are used nationwide in schools. ... (315 words)

Shane Warne is currently appearing on Australia's version of I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here!. He announced on the show that he thinks aliens created the pyramids in Egypt, and that they also ... (132 words)

David Icke was last in NZ in 2011. He'll talk in Auckland about his new book (surprise, surprise!), lizards, the illuminati and many other nonsense subjects. David used to be a goalkeeper and then a ... (83 words)

Matthew Mills believes that the Sandy Hook school massacre in the US didn't happen. Unfortunately he's taken his belief to an extreme, publicly harassing the sister of one of the victims, a school ... (152 words)

NASA announced ahead of time that it would be holding a press release about an important discovery. Lots of speculation, as always. Maybe life on mars, although no hardware to test properly for life ... (211 words)

Apparently the current drought in California is a conspiracy. Dane Wigington, lead researcher for GeoEngineering Watch says: "Climate engineering is the single greatest assault on the environment ... (113 words)