Katikati Psychic Cafe
18 March 2024
Last week we received a request from the editor of the Katikati Advertiser asking for our response to a story that was being written about a psychic:
Articles tagged with "readers"
Controversy
12 June 2023
A few weeks back I published an item that reviewed the book A Manual for Creating Atheists, by Peter Boghossian.
Destiny Church in the UK
3 October 2022
One of our readers from the other side of the world, a Kiwi living in Ireland has told us about a Destiny Church in the UK.
A Skeptical View of Linguistic Gaffes
1 November 2002
Mind the Gap! The book title is intended to remind all who have waited on curved London Underground railway platforms of the risk a careless step poses. The risks Dr Trask warns of are those which can label the writer as illiterate, ignorant of the nuances of English usage, or at least possessed of cloth ears. In offering this review to New Zealand Skeptic I do not imply that readers are particularly in need of the author's advice; rather, his comments have a distinctly skeptical slant, which should be music to skeptical ears (see entry: cliches). Consider the following entries in his alphabetical list.
The Hippopotamus
1 May 1996
Readers familiar with Stephen Fry only for his TV comic appearances (A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Jeeves and Wooster, Blackadder) may be surprised to meet him as author of a novel, and even more surprised that such a novel should be reviewed in New Zealand Skeptic. Squash your doubts -- this book is full of paranormal mysteries to delight the skeptical reader.
Forum
1 May 1991
A strange phenomenon is again manifesting itself in the pastoral areas of our borough. October has once again brought appearances of what we Mt Eden Skeptics call "Crop Rectangles" — bare, rectangular patches of earth amongst the normally verdant parklands. They have no reasonable explanation, but they do have a common, peculiar feature, which leads us to believe that they are associated with some sort of meteorological cult.
Membership Subscriptions
1 November 1988
The Treasurer reminds readers that members' subscriptions to NZCSICOP for 1988 are now due. If you receive a renewal notice, please don't put it where it might be forgotten, but deal with it promptly. Your subscriptions are NZCSICOP's blood.