Shaky At Best: The New Zealand Earthquake Forecasting Page With Links to Pseudoscience
At first glance, NZ Earthquake Community is a reputable Facebook page. It’s filled with content from GeoNet and advice about earthquake safety. It’s also only six clicks away from a crackpot’s RV in New Mexico.
Information on the page comes from two sources. If you follow the GeoNet rabbithole, you end up at the desks of GNS Science and Civil Defense. But if you follow the “windmap” rabbithole, you end up right next to 9/11 conspiracies and climate change denial. If you didn’t know any better, you might think that these two sources were equally valid.