Sam Fisher, in an opinion piece in the NZ Herald, looks at the legal action being threatened against NIWA by […]
Continue readingReflections on Science
Scientists and other thinkers talk about science and society and the connection between the two.
NZ Herald: Picking winners in science
Shaun Hendy writes in an opinion piece in the New Zealand Herald about the strategy of ‘picking winners’ in science […]
Continue readingProfessor Linda Bryder: Responses to ‘A History of the “Unfortunate Experiment”‘
From NZSkeptics: New Zealand’s Education Act 1989 states that academic freedom means freedom ‘within the law to question and test […]
Continue readingDr Paul Ashton: Near Zero Inc – a sadly prophetic company name
From NZSeptic: Between August 2006 and May 2007, 490 investors (many from NZ) put $5.3m into NearZero Inc, a US-based […]
Continue readingDr Robert Bartholomew on mass delusions
From NZSKeptics: Robert is co-author of a number of books about mass hysteria and associated topics, including “Little Green Men, […]
Continue readingDr Nik Warrensson: Nibiru arrghh!! We’re all gonna die
From NZSkeptics: Nik discusses the phenomena of Catastrophism, the belief that humanity’s demise is impending. In particular, the notion that […]
Continue readingDr Helen Petousis-Harris: The demonization of fat
From SkepticsNZ: Some of the links between diet and health outcomes in the 1970s were very tenuous. However these have […]
Continue readingDr Michael Edmonds: Dealing with wingnuts – which way to turn
Richard Dawkins refers to some opponents as “wingnuts”, and often applies significant pressure to them. But are there other ways […]
Continue readingPODCAST: Professor David Nutt – The Inconvenient Truth about Drugs
Prominent psychiatrist Professor David Nutt has been touring New Zealand giving lectures about his view that illegal drugs should be […]
Continue readingODT: NZ underestimates social scientists
Rob Burton explains why New Zealand’s current attitude towards social science, particularly in agriculture, may be far from optimal. While […]
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