We’ve covered some serious topics in this week’s podcast, and some that are thankfully a little more light-hearted. Mark talks about a media request the NZ Skeptics have received to answer questions about UFOs, hoping to make it abundantly clear that despite a number of UFO articles on our website, we don’t actually believe that little green men are visiting us. Bronwyn has delved into our project to collate events of skeptical interest, and looks at what skeptical events happened this fortnight in history. Katrina tackles a more serious topic, of Parental Alienation, asking whether this “syndrome” is even real. And finally Mark continues in this serious vein by looking into New Zealand’s main Men’s Rights website, wondering why the site’s members seem to spend most of their time denigrating women and posting pseudoscientific nonsense.

About this episode

• Articles we talk about:
  
  
  
  • Interview Request for Student Magazine Project
  
  
  
  
  
  • This fortnight in skeptical history - October 28th to November 9th
  
  
  
  
  
  • The Problem with Family Court Social Science
  
  
  
  
  
  • MENZ vs Reality
  
  
  
  





• Newsletter issues these articles appear in:
  
  
  
  • 2025-10-28