Skeptical Thoughts
April 2017
Here are the topics I chose to talk about on RadioLive for the month. Some of them may not have been mentioned on the radio due to a lack of time.
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23 April 2017
Arise Church
Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Religion, Evangelical, Arise
Last Sunday I went to church - not once, but twice. Arise is a large evangelical church that started in Wellington about 15 years ago, and has grown and spread to several other cities.
5 min read, 988 words. Continue Reading...
Kelvin Cruickshank talks to Jonah Lomu
Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Psychic
Kelvin Cruickshank has made the news
because he's promoting a new book - "Surrounded by Spirit". In the book he claims he talked with the spirit of Jonah Lomu at a show last year, apparently unaware that Jonah's brother John was in the audience: 2 min read, 305 words. Continue Reading...
2 April 2017
NASA spends over $1 million on theology
Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Religion, NASA
Professor Jerry Coyne
is in New Zealand at the moment, ticking our country off his bucket list. I talked with him in the pub a few nights ago, and he alerted me to a developing story in the US where NASA has spent over $1 million on the "Center of Theological Inquiry". They have been tasked with investigating the "societal implications of the search for life in the universe", although a look at the topics they're working on makes it sound like the money is being spent on all sorts of weird and wonderful issues: 3 min read, 479 words. Continue Reading...
Citizen Science and Planet 9
Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Science, Astronomy
I received an email earlier this week about a new Citizen Science
Project called Planet 9. 2 min read, 358 words. Continue Reading...
Vaxxed Premiered at Reading Cinemas LynnMall
Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Vaccines
Vaxxed
played at the LynnMall Reading cinema in Auckland today at 3pm. It's disappointing to see a major corporation allow a misleading, dangerous movie like Vaxxed to play at their venue - and presumably they will be turning a profit from this. Unsurprisingly there's nothing on Reading's website or Facebook page about the screening. 1 min read, 193 words. Continue Reading...
9 April 2017
Otago Uni Screened Vaxxed
Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Vaccines
Otago University have defended their decision
to allow a screening of Vaxxed, citing free speech and a need to controversial topics to be discussed. 1 min read, 138 words. Continue Reading...
Te Kiri Gold Cancer "Treatment" on sale
Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, MMS, Bleach
We talked about Te Kiri Gold
last year, when Sir Colin Meads was in the news endorsing it as a treatment for cancer. Although it wasn't on sale back then, and Vernon had been promising to run proper scientific trials of the product before putting it on the market, this seems to have now been forgotten. 3 min read, 499 words. Continue Reading...