2017

Here are the topics I chose to talk about on RadioLive for the year. Some of them may not have been mentioned on the radio due to a lack of time.

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• 22 January 2017

• Scientology "Ideal Org" Grand Opening

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Religion, Scientology

  3 min read, 457 words. Continue Reading...

• 16 July 2017

• GMO Bananas may save lives

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Science, GMO

  1 min read, 102 words. Continue Reading...

• Gifting Circles now illegal

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Scam, Scam

  2 min read, 308 words. Continue Reading...

• Siggi Henry profiled in the Spinoff

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Fluoridation

  1 min read, 80 words. Continue Reading...

• Vaxxed is still a nuisance in NZ

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Vaccines

  2 min read, 350 words. Continue Reading...

• 2 July 2017

• Baby kept sick by mother's bad decision

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Placenta

  1 min read, 154 words. Continue Reading...

• InfoWars promotes theory that NASA keeps slave kids on Mars

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Conspiracy, NASA

  1 min read, 159 words. Continue Reading...

• I went to a Scientology Event

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Religion, Scientology

  4 min read, 788 words. Continue Reading...

• 18 June 2017

• Breatharians make Dangerous Claims

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Breatharianism

  2 min read, 203 words. Continue Reading...

• Probable nonsense promoted at Hamilton Fieldays

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Vet

  2 min read, 224 words. Continue Reading...

• I was visited by Jehovah's Witnesses

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Religion, JW

  3 min read, 572 words. Continue Reading...

• Auckland Church Promoting Magical Oil

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Religion, Oil

  3 min read, 409 words. Continue Reading...

• 11 June 2017

• Apparently I need a colonic

  Categories: Pseudoscience, CAM , Tags: Colonic

  3 min read, 601 words. Continue Reading...

• Credulous alt-med article on Radio NZ

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Rongoa

  2 min read, 365 words. Continue Reading...

• Aussie shows how lax sham journals can be

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Scam, Journal

  2 min read, 380 words. Continue Reading...

• 4 June 2017

• USA "pulls out" of the Paris Climate Accord

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Climate

  3 min read, 426 words. Continue Reading...

• Nice article about Dave Hansford and 1080

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, 1080

  2 min read, 256 words. Continue Reading...

• Robert Bigelow believes aliens are on earth

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Conspiracy, Aliens, UFO

  2 min read, 338 words. Continue Reading...

• Don't put ground up wasp's nest in your vagina

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, WaspNest

  2 min read, 228 words. Continue Reading...

• 21 May 2017

• Blasphemy Law may finally be repealed

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Religion, Blasphemy

  1 min read, 162 words. Continue Reading...

• Proof of a flat earth

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, FlatEarth

  3 min read, 425 words. Continue Reading...

• Proof that people were in NZ before Maori?

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Conspiracy, History

  2 min read, 207 words. Continue Reading...

• 7 May 2017

• Nigel Antony Gray Still Crazy

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Conspiracy, Scientology

  2 min read, 299 words. Continue Reading...

• Te Kiri Gold makers forced to release a statement

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, MMS, Bleach

  9 min read, 1661 words. Continue Reading...

• 23 April 2017

• Arise Church

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Religion, Evangelical, Arise

  5 min read, 988 words. Continue Reading...

• Kelvin Cruickshank talks to Jonah Lomu

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Psychic

  2 min read, 305 words. Continue Reading...

• 9 April 2017

• Otago Uni Screened Vaxxed

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Vaccines

  1 min read, 138 words. Continue Reading...

• Te Kiri Gold Cancer "Treatment" on sale

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, MMS, Bleach

  3 min read, 499 words. Continue Reading...

• 2 April 2017

• NASA spends over $1 million on theology

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Religion, NASA

  3 min read, 479 words. Continue Reading...

• Citizen Science and Planet 9

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Science, Astronomy

  2 min read, 358 words. Continue Reading...

• Vaxxed Premiered at Reading Cinemas LynnMall

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Vaccines

  1 min read, 193 words. Continue Reading...

• 26 March 2017

• Census adds new non-religious categories

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Religion, Atheism

  1 min read, 134 words. Continue Reading...

• I wrote a letter to the NZ Medical Journal

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, CAM

  7 min read, 1211 words. Continue Reading...

• Shaquille O'Neal believes in a flat earth?

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, FlatEarth

  2 min read, 221 words. Continue Reading...

• 19 March 2017

• Australian who faked cancer diagnosis and cure found guilty

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Scam, Cancer

  2 min read, 224 words. Continue Reading...

• Interview with Sensing Murder producers

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Psychic

  6 min read, 1145 words. Continue Reading...

• 5 March 2017

• My Visit to faith healer Father John Rea

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Religion, Healing

  5 min read, 877 words. Continue Reading...

• 19 February 2017

• Homeopathic Teething Tablets linked to US deaths for sale in NZ

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Homeopathy

  1 min read, 180 words. Continue Reading...

• Strange lottery "tactic" - buying multiple tickets with the same numbers

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Lottery

  2 min read, 220 words. Continue Reading...

• Vaxxed movie showing in Auckland in April

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Vaccines

  1 min read, 121 words. Continue Reading...

• Whales were stranded by "weather modification" technology

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Weather

  2 min read, 376 words. Continue Reading...

• 5 February 2017

• Ex fraudster released early trying alternative cancer treatment

  Categories: Pseudoscience, Scam , Tags: Cancer

  2 min read, 319 words. Continue Reading...

• Ricky Gervais talks about science vs belief

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Religion, Atheism, Science

  1 min read, 120 words. Continue Reading...

• Scientology out on the streets in Grafton

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Religion, Scientology

  2 min read, 386 words. Continue Reading...

• 29 January 2017

• Kiwi Creationism

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Creationism

  5 min read, 920 words. Continue Reading...

• 17 December 2017

• My visit to the OTO

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Religion, OTO, Occult, Crowley

  5 min read, 874 words. Continue Reading...

• UK has scrapped useless treatments

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, NHS

  1 min read, 72 words. Continue Reading...

• First Pastafarian Citizenship in NZ

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Religion, FSM

  1 min read, 87 words. Continue Reading...

• Spontaneous Human Combustion in London

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, SHC

  2 min read, 204 words. Continue Reading...

• Nonsense Pharmacy to open in Wellington

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Pharmacy, CAM

  1 min read, 135 words. Continue Reading...

• 3 December 2017

• Most UK Water Boards use dowsing

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Dowsing

  2 min read, 354 words. Continue Reading...

• Acupuncture websites are misleading

  Categories: Pseudoscience, CAM , Tags: Acupuncture

  2 min read, 273 words. Continue Reading...

• Gluckman talks about science denialism

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Science, Science

  1 min read, 77 words. Continue Reading...

• Holes in popular conspiracy theories

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Conspiracy, Science

  2 min read, 292 words. Continue Reading...

• 12 November 2017

• Ghost in TradeMe mirror

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Ghost

  1 min read, 148 words. Continue Reading...

• Sexual Harassment of kids is okay, because of Joseph and Mary?

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Religion, Evangelical

  1 min read, 124 words. Continue Reading...

• Go Green Expo still full of woo

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Expo, CAM

  3 min read, 407 words. Continue Reading...

• Dr Libby Weaver hits the news - twice

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Libby

  1 min read, 191 words. Continue Reading...

• 5 November 2017

• Auckland thinking of dropping Glyphosate

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Danger, Glyphosate

  1 min read, 121 words. Continue Reading...

• NZ Skeptics conference in Wellington

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Events, NZSkeptics

  1 min read, 63 words. Continue Reading...

• Children handed religious tracts at Halloween

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Religion, Tract

  3 min read, 405 words. Continue Reading...

• Women Stranded at Sea for 5 months

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Scam, Scam

  3 min read, 442 words. Continue Reading...

• 15 October 2017

• Doterra selling cancer cure in NZ

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Doterra

  4 min read, 701 words. Continue Reading...

• Christchurch private detective offering lie detector test which is unlikely to work

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Polygraph

  1 min read, 104 words. Continue Reading...

• Breast Milk Soap

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Milk

  1 min read, 168 words. Continue Reading...

• 8 October 2017

• New healing device about to go on sale in NZ

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, QTB, QSB

  2 min read, 227 words. Continue Reading...

• Sun protection pill goes on sale in NZ

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Sunscreen

  2 min read, 302 words. Continue Reading...

• Conspiracy Theorists waste no time after Las Vegas shooting

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Conspiracy, Shooting

  4 min read, 608 words. Continue Reading...

• 1 October 2017

• The Apocalypse has been moved

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Religion, Apocalypse

  1 min read, 107 words. Continue Reading...

• The FreeMan movement/Sovereign Citizens

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Conspiracy, Freeman

  3 min read, 444 words. Continue Reading...

• Some great common sense advice from Rob Stock at Stuff

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Pharmacy

  2 min read, 387 words. Continue Reading...

• 3 September 2017

• One-sided article updated after complaint

  Categories: Pseudoscience, CAM

  3 min read, 425 words. Continue Reading...

• Nonsense book gets free media coverage

  Categories: Religion

  2 min read, 246 words. Continue Reading...

• Iraq was Invaded because they had a stargate

  Categories: Conspiracy

  2 min read, 387 words. Continue Reading...

• Newshub thought a picture of someone holding something rectangular was newsworthy

  Categories: Pseudoscience

  1 min read, 46 words. Continue Reading...

• 27 August 2017

• Naturopath Implicated in Cancer Deaths

  Categories: Pseudoscience, CAM , Tags: Naturopathy

  3 min read, 588 words. Continue Reading...

• Satanic Panic

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Religion, Satanism

  4 min read, 644 words. Continue Reading...

• 6 August 2017

• Daughter conned into selling her possessions

  Categories: Pseudoscience, CAM , Tags: Cancer

  2 min read, 340 words. Continue Reading...

• Haunted Doll "strikes" again

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Ghost

  3 min read, 415 words. Continue Reading...

• Jacinta Ardern Conspiracy!

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Conspiracy, Freemasons

  2 min read, 252 words. Continue Reading...

• Finally, a skeptical story about Lotto

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Lottery

  1 min read, 140 words. Continue Reading...

• 30 July 2017

• Rural US Doctor may have to leave NZ

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, MMS, Bleach

  2 min read, 207 words. Continue Reading...

• There a major conspiracy theory I've never heard of!

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Conspiracy, BlueBeam

  3 min read, 567 words. Continue Reading...

• Sensing Murder hasn't helped NZ Police

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Psychic

  2 min read, 364 words. Continue Reading...