The continuing fight between Gareth Renowden, of Hot Topic, and Ian Wishart, publisher of New Zealand’s other conspiracy rag, ‘Investigate’ continues, with Wishart now asking Renowden to justify a claim that the UN isn’t trying to impose a One World Government.
Wishart, like many Climate Change Skeptics, believes that the real agenda behind saving the planet [...]
Entries from June 28th, 2009
Falsify this, commie fool!
June 28th, 2009 1 Comment
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Michael Jackson…
June 26th, 2009 3 Comments
…is dead. Given that he was about to embark on a series of ‘comeback’1 concerts and the actual cause of his death was a surprise I imagine we will have MJ Conspiracy Theories fairly soon. I mean, if David Carradine’s death warranted calls of a cover-up the Michael Jackson death industry should be able to [...]
The Epistemology of Winston Peters
June 24th, 2009 9 Comments
“Unless I say it, then nothing’s true.”
Thus speaks Winston Peters on whether he is running for the Auckland (super-)Mayoralty. However, when I skimmed the article my first thought was ‘Is Winston really our source of true beliefs?’ If he is, what does that mean?
Winston Peters, for my non-Aotearoa/Te Wai Pounamu-based readers, is the leader of [...]
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Crankery
June 23rd, 2009 No Comments
This recent post from ‘Science Based Medicine’ is on a matter concerning my talk at the 2009 New Zealand Skeptics Conference and is, I think, well worth a read. I admit to sometimes skimming over SBM posts; whilst they are almost always of a very high standard they are also almost always very very very [...]
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Dentith Files (95bFM) – The Hollow Earth
June 21st, 2009 2 Comments
Rather a fast, fun-filled excursion into the interior of the this planet we call home; possibly not the most indepth review of such Conspiracy Theories and it is filled with ill-pronounced mentions of Völkisch.
Anyway, of more interest to my readers (and to myself) is David Farrier’s quest to find the Mongolian Death Worm. I’m an [...]
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