The dire predictions of the Club of Rome's 1972 report on The Limits to Growth have supposedly been refuted by subsequent studies, but the refutations have serious shortcomings. This article is based on a presentation to the NZ Skeptics 2009 conference in Wellington, 26 September.
Remember the '90s? It was the decade when:
Rats carrying the deadly bubonic plague will overrun Los Angeles, sparking mass evacuations - Patsy Ramsey will confess that she and her husband killed JonBenet Ramsey - Bill Cosby will quit show business and become a born-again preacher
From a Skeptics' mailing list comes a record of psychic slip-ups for the previous year.
At the last conference I was elected editor of the New Zealand Skeptic. Some of you will have read my pieces in Metro magazine or in NBR over the years, or heard my "Soapboxes" on World Service Radio. If you have wondered about my recent absence from the media, it is because I have been preparing to launch my own magazine.
A HAMILTON woman claims the predictions of a computerised horoscope she subscribed to were so accurate that she had a nervous breakdown.