There has been a lot of speculation in recent months about an increase in food allergies and food intolerance, both […]
Continue readingReflections on Science
Scientists and other thinkers talk about science and society and the connection between the two.
PODCAST: Andrew Waterworth on the art of science documentary making
Natural History New Zealand‘s Andrew Waterworth was the keynote speaker at the Science Communicators Association’s annual conference in Palmerston North […]
Continue readingPODCAST: Communicating in a pandemic
The Ministry of Health’s strategic communications manager Spiro Anastasiou gave attendees at the Science Communicators Association conference an insight into […]
Continue readingPODCAST: Ian Shaw, Peter Gluckman at the NZAS science awards
The New Zealand Association of Scientists Awards for 2009 were presented last night by the Minister for Research, Science and […]
Continue readingThe Large Hadron Collider – separating myth from reality
Last week at Science Express @ Te Papa, physicist Marcus Wilson spoke about the Large Hadron Collider, and the myths […]
Continue readingNZ Skeptics Conference – Is Science Just Mysticism in a Lab Coat?
Bernard Beckett is a High School Teacher and writer. In 2005 he spent a research year at the Allan Wilson […]
Continue readingNZ Skeptics Conference – Is Economics a Science or a Religion?
Brian Easton is well known as an economist, a profession which he arrived at through a scientific route at the […]
Continue readingNZ Skeptics Conference – Strange Occurrences: our approach to paranormal investigation
James Gilberd is 46, has a Bachelor of Design, photography major, Victoria University 1997, and works as a commercial photographer […]
Continue readingNZ Skeptics Conference – Undercover for Cancer
Loretta Marron BSc Assoc Dip Bus(Accnt) AAII MACS “The Jelly Bean Lady”. Following a successful treatment of breast cancer in […]
Continue readingNZ Skeptics Conference – The Slippery Slope of Conspiracy Theories
Matthew Dentith is currently finishing his doctoral dissertation on the evaluation of Conspiracy Theories as a species of belief. When […]
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