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Should We Tell Stories of Vaccine Sceptics Who Have Died of COVID?

Should We Tell Stories of Vaccine Sceptics Who Have Died of COVID?

Nick Chater Warwick Business School, University of Warwick As vaccine uptake starts to wane, stories have began to emerge of people who refused the jab ending up in intensive care, ruing not having had the vaccine, and subsequently dying. These cautionary tales are certainly attention-grabbing, but is it right

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The Ethical Complexities of Mitochondrial DNA Donation

Margaret Somerville mercatornet.com Margaret Somerville is Professor of Bioethics at the University of Notre Dame Australia School of Medicine (Sydney campus). She is also Samuel Gale Professor of Law Emerita, Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Medicine, and Founding Director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law Emerita

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Europe’s ‘Unprecedented Man-Made Floods’

Paul Driessen cfact.org Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for CFACT and author of Cracking Big Green and Eco-Imperialism: Green Power – Black Death. Deadly floods in Germany and Belgium have put climate change back in the news in time for the COP-26 climate gabfest in Glasgow. Not

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Maori Myth Is Not Science

Maori Myth Is Not Science

Ross Meurant hobsonspledge.nz Ross Meurant, B.A M.P.P. resigned from the police at inspector rank in 1987 to enter Parliament as a National MP. Today he is Honorary Consul for Morocco and trustee and CEO of commercial assets owned by absentee Russian investors. As a former detective

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Immediate Skin-To-Skin Contact Improves Premature Babies’ Survival Chances

Immediate Skin-To-Skin Contact Improves Premature Babies’ Survival Chances

righttolife.org.uk Immediate skin-to-skin contact increases a premature baby’s chances of survival according to a new study. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, co-ordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO), found that this method, known as ‘kangaroo mother care’ (KMC), has the potential to save the lives

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The Message and the Messenger

The Message and the Messenger

Tiger Tiger, a tenacious, surprisingly well-educated animal, living and working in the real world.  Having to come up with staff wages every week sharpens the senses. As we are daily browbeaten by bobbing heads and flapping hands across New Zealand and Australia to mask up, get vaccinated, maintain social

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Feminism’s Last Battle

Feminism’s Last Battle

Abigail Favale mercatornet.com Abigail Favale is Dean of Humanities at George Fox University, where she also teaches seminars in the great books. Her 2018 memoir ‘Into the Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion’ traces her conversion from postmodern feminism to Catholicism. She has also written a book entitled ‘The Genesis

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Overseer Not Fit for Purpose

Dr Samuel Dennis grounded.nz You may have noticed the recent headlines regarding the Overseer model (used by regional councils to determine farmer compliance with environmental regulation) being severely criticised in a recent independent review. “Major tool for managing farm pollution gets a fail from reviewers”, “Report finds shortcomings in

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Family as Our Foundation
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Family as Our Foundation

Helen Houghton New Conservative Spokeswoman for Education and Family When will we put the needs of our children first and provide the support parents need? Who is representing our families in Parliament? They refuse to consider that every decision, every bill they pass affects our families. Children have a fundamental

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Phased Border Reopening, Faster Vaccination, Be Ready for Delta

Phased Border Reopening, Faster Vaccination, Be Ready for Delta

Michael Plank University of Canterbury Michael Plank is a Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and Principal Investigator at Te Punaha Matatini, New Zealand’s Centre of Research Excellence in Complex Systems and Data Analytics. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has

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Why Smart People Get Suckered by ‘Trust the Science’

Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet Has there ever been a time in history when the public has been asked to “trust the science” more? This week the the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report which UN Secretary General António Guterres described as

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Calls for Elimination of Biological Sex on Passports
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Calls for Elimination of Biological Sex on Passports

familyfirst.org.nz Here’s an extract from an article published by The Daily Signal: “Designating sex on birth certificates as male or female, and making that information available on the public portion, perpetuates a view that sex designation is permanent and fails to recognize the medical spectrum of gender

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