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NZ Skeptics Invite Homeopaths To Join Campaign

NZ Skeptics Invite Homeopaths To Join Campaign

The New Zealand Skeptics are inviting homeopaths to join their call for pharmacies to stop selling homeopathic products, as both groups are opposed to the practice, albeit for different reasons.

NZ Universities Gullible Or Exploitative?

NZ Universities Gullible Or Exploitative?

Should New Zealand universities be supporting a practice that their own academics wouldnt find ethically acceptable? Thats the question being asked by the NZ Skeptics in noting that self-proclaimed psychics and mediums are using university facilities for their performances.

Aisling Psychic Prediction Slammed

Aisling Psychic Prediction Slammed

Wellington, Oct 13 NZPA - A television psychic who claimed to have seen where the body of Aisling Symes was last week was not only wrong, but she should be ashamed of exploiting a family's pain, says the head of a sceptics group.

Poisons Story Shows April Fool Comes Early For NZ Herald

Poisons Story Shows April Fool Comes Early For NZ Herald

Statement from NZ Skeptics.

A claim that you can detect poisons in Haruaki Gulf marine life via a discredited electro-acupuncture technique has been swallowed whole cloth by the New Zealand Herald.

Skeptics Slam Scare Stories As Endangering The Environment

Skeptics Slam Scare Stories As Endangering The Environment

A documentary which highlights the "distress, cruelty, horror, ecocide, cover-ups and contamination" involved in 1080-based pest control has won the Bent Spoon brickbat from the NZ Skeptics for 2009.

Skeptics Give Police Thumbs Down

Skeptics Give Police Thumbs Down

17 SEPTEMBER 2008 - The NZ Skeptics Bent Spoon for the most irresponsibly gullible statement in the media in the past year goes to Detective Senior Sergeant Ross Levy of the New Zealand Police Force for promoting psychics as "just another tool" in the investigative policing toolbox.