Reflections on Science

Reflections on Science | Published: 19 August 2010

From NZSkeptics: New Zealand’s Education Act 1989 states that academic freedom means freedom ‘within the law to question and test […]

Reflections on Science | Published: 17 August 201017 August 2010

From NZSeptic: Between August 2006 and May 2007, 490 investors (many from NZ) put $5.3m into NearZero Inc, a US-based […]

Reflections on Science | Published: 17 August 201017 August 2010

From NZSKeptics: Robert is co-author of a number of books about mass hysteria and associated topics, including “Little Green Men, […]

Reflections on Science | Published: 16 August 2010

From NZSkeptics: Nik discusses the phenomena of Catastrophism, the belief that humanity’s demise is impending. In particular, the notion that […]

Reflections on Science | Published: 16 August 201016 August 2010

From SkepticsNZ: Some of the links between diet and health outcomes in the 1970s were very tenuous. However these have […]

Reflections on Science | Published: 16 August 2010

Richard Dawkins refers to some opponents as “wingnuts”, and often applies significant pressure to them. But are there other ways […]

Reflections on Science | Published: 06 August 2010

Prominent psychiatrist Professor David Nutt has been touring New Zealand giving lectures about his view that illegal drugs should be […]

Reflections on Science | Published: 26 July 201028 July 2010

Rob Burton explains why New Zealand’s current attitude towards social science, particularly in agriculture, may be far from optimal. While […]

Reflections on Science | Published: 17 June 2010

Rob Fenwick writes in the New Zealand Herald about sea level rise and the conference he attended which saw 2500 […]

Reflections on Science | Published: 10 June 2010

Last night, the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, gave a speech about climate change and the […]