NZ Skeptics
Organization to promote critical thinking
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| 2024 | Christchurch journalists Martin Van Beynen, Sinead Gill, Tatania Gibbs, and Philip Matthews received Bravo Award for team reporting on local cults and supporting the Decult conference |
| December 2024 | Criticized King Charles for appointing a homeopathy-supporting doctor as head of the royal medical household, undermining evidence-based medicine. |
| November 15 2024 | Joint conference of NZ Skeptics and New Zealand Association of Rationalists and Humanists (NZARH) held at the Fickling Convention Centre in Auckland, featuring a diverse range of speakers. |
| 2023 | NZ Skeptics awarded themselves the Bent Spoon Award for their lack of critical thinking regarding a 1995 award to the Ministry of Justice, publicly apologizing for their previous unjustified criticism. |
| 2023 | Facebook groups Debunking Conspiracies Aotearoa, Skeptical Kiwi, and YouTube channel New Zealand Conspiracy Loons received Bravo Award for identifying and calling out conspiracy theories in New Zealand |
| November 24 2023 | NZ Skeptics Conference held at Toitū Otago Settlers Museum in Dunedin, featuring speakers like Susan Gerbic and including a discussion with an acupuncturist about alternative medicine and skepticism. |
| 2022 | The Disinformation Project (Kate Hannah and Dr. Sanjana Hattotuwa), Byron Clark, and Marc Daalder received Bravo Award for documenting and combating misinformation, studying alt-right movements, and science-based reporting on diverse issues including COVID-19 and far-right nationalism |
| 2020 | The website was updated, and the journal was discontinued, replaced by an emailed newsletter and a fortnightly podcast called the Yeah... Nah! podcast. |
| 2019 | NZ Skeptics criticized the Wellington City Council and Downer Group for using dowsing to locate buried water pipes, ultimately co-awarding them the Bent Spoon Award for promoting pseudoscience. |
| November 30 2019 | NZ Skeptics Conference held at the Christchurch Arts Centre / Te Matatiki Toi Ora, featuring speakers from the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe and other notable skeptics. |
| 2018 | NZ Skeptics Society, through chair Craig Shearer, publicly denounced psychics who claim to help locate missing persons, criticizing them as 'grief vampires' who do not actually assist police in solving disappearances. |
| 2015 | NZSI adopted a new logo incorporating a kiwi, koru, and a question mark, and released a new website and journal. |
| 2014 | Mark Honeychurch became chairperson, serving until 2017. NZSI also made a statement to clarify their position on climate change to avoid public confusion about the term 'skeptic'. |
| December 1 2014 | George Hrab traveled to Wellington for a special skeptics dinner event with limited seating of twelve, with tickets auctioned on the NZ Skeptic website. |
| 2013 | Sue Nicholson spoke at the Wellington NZ Skeptics conference, sharing her 21-year experience as a psychic medium for 18 minutes and answering audience questions, despite her friends advising her against attending. |
| 2010 | Gold (who founded the New Zealand Skeptics in the Pub) became chair-entity, serving until 2014. |
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