Articles tagged with "works"

Equine Touch

29 October 2024

Equine Touch (ET) is a horse therapy modality started in 1997 by Scotsman Jock Ruddock. Ruddock, who passed away in 2011, was an interesting character. Here's a brief list of his past occupations:

NZ lightworkers can save the world

25 December 2023

This is the cover image of one of NZ's own lightworkers, J. Lee Frisbee. He works at “Explore Daydreaming Inc”, and describes himself as “Multidimensional Navigator - I Am Light Zen Master”.

SleepDrops is a New Zealand company which sells small vials of liquid drops which are supposed to help you get to sleep and stay asleep. Their ingredients are a mixture of small doses of herbs and very small (homeopathic) doses of herbs. A look at the Scientific Research page on their website shows that there's a dearth of research for any of the ingredients in the SleepDrops products, and absolutely no research on the SleepDrops formulation.

Treating Bears with Acupuncture

28 January 2018

"The results argue for more trials of the fish skins for burns", the vets said.

MMM Scam hits Nigeria

18 December 2016

In the scheme invested money receives a return of 30% profit after a month. It works as a classic Ponzi scheme, where the incoming money from new members is used to pay members whose investment is withdrawn. These schemes work while they gain in popularity, but stop working as soon as they stop growing. The most famous example of this is the Bernie Madoff fraud, where it's estimated that $65 billion was lost.

Acupuncture Works! (Not really)

28 February 2016

On Thursday I went to Cafe Scientifique, a regular meeting in Wellington where talks are given about a scientific topic.

Shane Warne believes alien experiments turned monkeys into humans

21 February 2016

Shane Warne is currently appearing on Australia's version of I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here!. He announced on the show that he thinks aliens created the pyramids in Egypt, and that they also engineered humans:

University funds Therapeutic Touch

1 November 2008

Why is Canterbury University fostering an alternative therapy at its Health Centre?

Religion, Drugs and a Build-up of Toxins

1 May 2001

Even in a secular age, it's hard to surrender the religious habits of old

Conservation of Energy by Remote Control

1 May 2000

John Riddell has a few confessions to make.

Continued pub night discussions

1 February 2000

In which John Riddell continues his pub night discussions.

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.

Can Science Be Taught In Schools?

1 November 1996

It often seems as if home schooling is the domain of hard-line Christians. In fact, they're not the only people who feel that their children are better taught at home than in school.

Forum

1 November 1994

I am writing in the hope that your readers may be able to help me in a little research I am doing, in my position of Publicity Officer for the Wairarapa Archive.

The Crackpot Index

1 August 1993

On open access computer bulletin boards, any entity with a theory can expound on it at length. Many do -- usually to a very unappreciative audience. A seemingly-large proportion of such expositions are surprisingly similar in style. The following scale (tentatively attributed to John Baez of Usenet sci.physics) will help readers establish just how crackpotted something is...