The gang is back this week with a bit of election talk, and a morbid curiosity about how the minority parties fared. Craig gives us a non-EV topic, debunking fears about spontaneously combusting lithium ion batteries, while Mark, still chasing that Eastern Lightning high, gets embroiled in more online scams. Bronwyn closes out the episode with three cases of fraudulent medical practice, either by New Zealanders, or with a Kiwi connection.

• Articles we talk about:
  • A week in NZ Skeptical History - October 16th - 22th
  • CleverTap Scam: Work From Home, make thousands
  • CleverTap Scam: Can I Scam the Scammers?
  • EV Fires
• Newsletters:
  • 2023-10-16
  • 2023-04-03
• Links:
  • 'Almost killed me': The fire risk lurking in almost every home
  • 2023 General Election - Preliminary Count
  • Fake Middlemore Hospital doctor Yuvaraj Krishnan with ‘Walter Mitty view of life’ sentenced to jail
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  • Conference: November 24th-26th, 2003 at Toitῡ - Otago Settlers Museum. 
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