Articles tagged with "forecasts"

Apocalypse soon: Unwarranted skepticism and the growth fetish

1 February 2010

The dire predictions of the Club of Rome's 1972 report on_ The Limits to Growth _have supposedly been refuted by subsequent studies, but the refutations have serious shortcomings. This article is based on a presentation to the NZ Skeptics 2009 conference in Wellington, 26 September.

Psychics Fail Once Again

1 February 1995

From a Skeptics' mailing list comes a record of psychic slip-ups for the previous year.

Your New Editor

1 November 1994

At the last conference I was elected editor of the New Zealand Skeptic. Some of you will have read my pieces in Metro magazine or in NBR over the years, or heard my "Soapboxes" on World Service Radio. If you have wondered about my recent absence from the media, it is because I have been preparing to launch my own magazine.