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Measles Outbreak
There was a story in the NZ Herald this week regarding a Measles outbreak in Auckland and the response to this event by the Powers That Be. Whether or not the action taken (keeping unvaccinated...
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Smoking Bans and the Effect of Health Warnings
In the world today there is an increasing focus on the negative aspects of smoking and a concerted attempt to reduce the presence of smoking in society. Given the harmful effects of this addiction on...
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Randomness and Clustering: Is the Number of Twins in Timaru a Mystery?
If you saw 3 News last night you might have caught the story about the bumper crop of twins born this year. The prologue to the story gave the impression of a mystery with words to the effect of...
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Anti-Vaccination In NZ
As promised here’s my first entry for “Vaccine Awareness Week”, I thought I would take a little look at Anti-vaccination in New Zealand. In particular the Immunisation Awareness Society. This...
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Vaccination Awareness Week Round-Up
There’s still officially one more day of Anti-Vaccine Awareness Week (two really, as it’s an American idea) but here’s a round up of the posts anyway. While I know there are lots of great in-depth...
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’Mantrol’ and the Psychology of Destructive Behaviour
Recently the NZ Transport Authority and the Police introduced a new campaign for reducing driver speeding. The “Mantrol” concept attempts to link the safe driving with “manliness” and in this way...
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MOONQUAKE: What Does the Science Say?
As usual I’m late for the bandwagon, hey, guys, wait up! Ok, so David Winter over at The Atavism has already compared Ken Ring’s predictions to the actual data around the latest quake and done an...
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Thoughts About Taniwhas
This is probably a very ill considered post. I do feel compelled to write something on this subject however. Today in the NZ Herald Kepa Morgan has a piece relating why we should listen when Maori...
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God, UFOs, Life After Death: What do New Zealanders Believe?
Reading the paper today I learned that 1/3 of New Zealanders believe that we have been visited by extra terrestrials. I thought this was an interesting juxtaposition of stories given that a page or two...
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NZ (Nearly) Tops Skeptics Chart
Just in my RSS feed is this post on the SkepticBlog site talking about the number of page views of the blog ranked by country. The stats are adjusted and represent page views per million of the...
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