20 July 2026
A few weeks ago I was up in Auckland for the NZ Association of Rationalists and Humanists' AGM, and as soon as I walked into their building, Rationalist House on Symonds Street, I noticed that something was different. The picture of Ernst Haeckel hanging on the wall in front of me, as I walked into the main room on the ground floor, had a new info card that had been added to it, declaring the image part of a series on “Dead Old White Men”.
7 August 2023
As a reminder of what we covered in my last article on the Global Flourishing movement, also called ∑±, it's a new group setup in Auckland recently by a member of the New Zealand Association of Rationalists and Humanists. The group claims to be aligned with skepticism, humanism and rationalism, but appears to have some concerning characteristics that make it look less like a group of skeptically-minded people, and more like a cult - at least to me.
1 February 2000
A respected member of Skeptics passed away at the Hampton Court Rest Home at Taradale, napier, on 29 September last year.