The Hippocratic Oath and the Covid Debacle
Is the Hippocratic Oath, which dates back to antiquity, relevant today?
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Collins Silent on NZ Satellite Mission
Experts say the public was misled about ongoing technical issues, including problematic thrusters and repeated system failures.
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The Business of Science, Part Two
So the business of science is to find out knowledge. But scientific fact can never be just fact, brute fact. It isn’t fact unless it’s true and it isn’t true unless it is both correctly observed and truthfully reported.
Just This Once
The Tāmaki Makaurau by-election: the rare case I’d vote Labour to stop a party of racists.
Do Not Buy Ammunition
He recorded the sales against other people’s firearms licences without their knowledge.
The PM’s New Line
This is an adjustment – a new explanation – because the economy is not improving anywhere near as fast as he had hoped or it needs to. At half-time National is struggling to make a real difference to voter’s lives. That’s what the polls are saying.
News Briefing: 16 July 2025
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards REGULATORY STANDARDS BILL Jonathan Boston (Post): The Regulatory Standards Bill and how not to govern a country (paywalled) Jamie Ensor (Herald): Winston Peters, David Seymour dismiss claims Government in disarray over United Nations letter (paywalled) Bridie Witton (Stuff): Labour leaps on UN letter as
Luxon’s Toothless Tell-Off of Seymour: A Globalist Puppet’s Pathetic Play
Luxon’s ‘telling off’ of Seymour is a joke: a transparent attempt to look tough while doing nothing of substance. The UN’s been told where to go and Luxon’s left looking like the weak link he is.
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Face of the Day
While wary that the comparison could get him into further troubled waters, he explained the reason behind his comparison.
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… insurgency (noun): : the quality or state of being insurgent - specifically : a condition of revolt against a government that is less than an organised revolution and that is not recognised as belligerency Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Insurgencies fall into the category of "irregular warfare"
The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
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