In spite of the quality international line-up of scientists and science communicators at September's annual NZ Skeptics Conference in Wellington, it's probably not surprising that most of the media ... (429 words)

In the first of a new series of columns, Matthew Willey catches up with what celebrity medium Kelvin Cruickshank is up to these days. The dead talk to no-one. Kelvin Cruickshank is either ... (1002 words)

Clairvoyants agree on missing man By CORINNE AMBLER Police Reporter Police will join friends of missing Wellington man Michael Kelly today in a search of an area where clairvoyants think he might be ... (437 words)

Supernatural forces on the increase Spirits are increasingly making their presence felt in New Zealand, spurred on by celebrity ghost whisperers, says the Manawatu Standard (12 April). A recent ... (1266 words)

Noel Townsley continues our series on the psychic roadshows touring New Zealand. From a website to which I subscribe came an email notice of two upcoming events with "well-known psychic" Jeanette ... (3087 words)

NZ Skeptic editor David Riddell finds Kelvin Cruickshank less impressive in person than he appears on Sensing Murder. A shorter version of this review appeared in the Waikato Times on 9 December ... (1305 words)

Psychic and TVNZ join forces to profit from child's disappearance When Sensing Murder psychic Deb Webber announced on TV One's Breakfast show that missing Auckland toddler Aisling Symes was in "a ... (1282 words)

Stuart Landsborough has an interesting night out with one of the Sensing Murder mediums. On 12 May, 2009, Kelvin Cruickshank of Sensing Murder fame came to Wanaka to wow the locals with a one night ... (2160 words)

'Pet psychics' get a boost The flourishing pet psychic industry has received free publicity from an Australian article reprinted in the NZ Herald (23 January). I guess it was the silly season, that ... (1212 words)

Vicki Hyde dishes out this year's Bent Spoon Award. The NZ Skeptics Bent Spoon for the most irresponsibly gullible statement in the media in the past year goes to Detective Senior Sergeant Ross Levy ... (598 words)

A Listener article on Brazilian medium and 'miracle-worker' Joao de Deus has taken the annual Bent Spoon Award from the New Zealand Skeptics. The article by Diana Burns, Come and Be Healed, ran ... (391 words)