25 November 2024
I'm a fan of watching movies and documentaries that contain content that I, as a skeptic, disagree with. I like the idea of challenging myself to spend the time to give these pieces of media a fair shake, so that I can be more confident that I'm not just a skeptic because I haven't “seen the light”. Instead I like to stare directly into that light, watching anti-vaxx documentaries and trying out alternative medicine treatments.
28 June 2021
(In)famous German psychic Michael Schneider made the news recently when he claimed to know the exact coordinates of Madeleine McCann's body. Madeleine, aged 3, went missing in 2007 while she was on holiday in Spain with her family. Despite several leads over the years (and many psychics making predictions), there's been no definitive answer so far as to what happened to Madeleine - although there is one likely suspect.
8 March 2021
I'm guessing that Jami-Lee Ross, head of the failed conspiracy themed political party Advance NZ, has run out of money. Why else would he be planning to flog useless anti-5G pills to us?
1 February 2014
Janelle Wallace reviews_ Salt Sugar Fat: How The Food Giants Hooked Us, _by Michael Moss. Random House Publishing, 2013.
1 February 2012
The Believing Brain: how we construct beliefs and reinforce them as truths by Michael Shermer. Times books, New York. 386pp. ISBN 978-0-8050-9125-0. Reviewed by Martin Wallace.
1 February 1993
The failure of clairvoyants to locate the missing Wellington man, Michael Kelly, or to know the manner of his death, will not startle many skeptics. No major missing persons case in the history of New Zealand has been solved with paranormal help, despite the fact that police have been deluged with clairvoyant tips over the years -- from Mona Blades to Kirsa Jensen, Teresa Cormack, Luisa Damodron, Heidi Paakkonen or Michael Kelly.