2 March 2026
The NZ Skeptics mailboxes have recently been receiving some interesting emails, asking to have content published on our website. Whereas historically these requests would be for hosting obvious spam on our site, featuring online casino adverts, alternative medicines, MLMs and other dodgy products and services, this trio of recent emails were a little more subtle.
17 February 2026
With the recent release of millions of digital files (mainly emails) related to Jeffrey Epstein, there's a lot to go through. Both journalists and activists are combing the documents for people they want to name shame - politicians, celebrities, culture war pundits, etc.
5 August 2024
Paul Burns, a Catholic who sporadically emails us with inane arguments, wrote to us recently about our $100,000 challenge, in an email titled “_My own challenge_”:
13 February 2023
Part of the fun of being on the NZ Skeptics committee is that we get sent emails from folk with some “interesting” views. In many instances the emails we get are provocative trolling messages, or sent from overseas accounts and blasted out to multiple skeptical organisations around the world.
4 April 2022
As a professional software developer, I'm aware of various ways in which websites can be hacked - and it's a constant battle keeping up with the latest knowledge and techniques to ensure safety.
17 January 2022
I was scrolling through my emails today, looking to see if I had received any Why Are You A Skeptic responses from any of you. Sadly there was nothing I'd missed; no stories of how you'd found skepticism after an all-night bender where you'd snorted ketamine and met God, or how you've always been skeptical since the age of two.
1 February 2014
Keith Muir (NZ Skeptic 109) ends "I rest my case." But he never makes a case; he only quotes opinion. This is unacceptable in Law or Science.