22 December 2025
In this article, I explore Ken Ring's (AKA The Moon Man) predictions he posted on his Facebook page from January 8th 2025, concerning dates of Earthquakes and where in the world these earthquakes were to occur. For those who don't know, Ken Ring is a writer from Auckland who claims weather and earthquakes are influenced by the moon cycle. He publishes almanacs each year for New Zealand, Australia, Ireland and, more recently, Japan and Italy, in which he provides weather predictions for the entire year. Ken's almanacs appear to take into account the position over the earth of the degree of perigee, or point closest to a part of the earth and the moon. So if the perigee is over say the North Island of New Zealand, that area will experience weather changes and increased earthquake activity. The degree or amount of perigee dictates the intensity of the weather or earthquake for that region. This article will focus mainly on earthquakes where weather predictions will be used to illustrate points. However, the reader can be assured, his predictions of both are as useful as each other.
18 August 2025
In episode 9 of the Telepathy Tapes' extra episodes, titled the Talk Tracks, host Ky Dickens has Adam Curry on to talk about the “science”, in an episode titled “The Science of Intuition: Consciousness, Intention, and the Edge of Reality”. According to Ky, dam is apparently an inventor and “deep thinker”, although in the episode he describes himself as an “armchair scientist” and “consciousness researcher” - although all I could find of his research online was a single paper on Google Scholar, where he is listed as the third author on a paper about retrocausation. Two websites I found that have profiles on him both listed many research papers, but none of the papers had his name attached to them, despite the fact that they were listed in one case on a website he owns, which sells an app he created (Entangled), and in the other case were listed on his profile page under a picture of him. So I'm left thinking that maybe he's not so much of a researcher after all. Although even if he had been an author on those papers, looking at the quality of them and the places they've been published (and many haven't been published anywhere) makes me think that it still wouldn't be that much of a flex.
13 May 2024
This weekend those of us who weren't screwed over by cloudy evenings were treated to a rare view of the Aurora Australis. As skeptics, though, you won't be surprised to hear that there's no lack of scaremongering when it comes to the aurora. Take, for instance, this iPhone app that promises that you can “Protect your Life” from solar storms:
26 October 2021
Our Prime Minister has quite a reputation around the world, but did you know she's also able to cause earthquakes?
27 November 2016
There have been a few stories in the news recently about earthquakes that have left me feeling skeptical:
1 May 2011
In the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquakes, Ken Ring's predictions were widely, though often inaccurately, reported. David Riddell looks at Ring's writings, and compares them with actual events.
1 February 1992
The Minister of Civil Defence, Mr Lee, believes that the Bible, written almost 2000 years ago, predicted the increasing prevalence of earthquakes today.