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Articles tagged with "napier"

Spirit Whisperer guilty of indecent assault

27 May 2018

A Napier based psychic has been convicted of indecent assault. Craig Wright, called the Spirit Whisperer, has been offering his services in NZ for several years, and has even worked on a pilot for a TV show with Sue Nicholson. Now he's been found guilty of indecent assault of a teenager after performing a "ritual cleansing". Craig's defence was that he puts his finger in someone's belly button to find out if they are possessed by an entity. When he asserted that the victim had this problem, he took him to another room to rid him of the spiritual attachment and that is when the assault took place.

Homeopathy Column being removed from local paper

18 September 2016

Mark Hanna at the Society for Science Based Healthcare has complained recently about the Napier Courier's column written by a local homeopathy business, called "Homeopathy Hub". the weekly column made many daft claims about the effectiveness of homeopathy, such as:

Keith Robinson

1 February 2000

A respected member of Skeptics passed away at the Hampton Court Rest Home at Taradale, napier, on 29 September last year.

Homeopathy an option

1 May 1991

Homeopathy could provide the answer to New Zealand's possum problems, according to Napier Mayor Alan Dick.