Ananish Chaudhuri ananishchaudhuri.com Ananish Chaudhuri is Professor of Economics at the University of Auckland and the author of Nudged into lockdown? Behavioural Economics, Uncertainty and Covid-19. Among the many foibles of human nature exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic is the hypocrisy that lies at the heart of contemporary progressivism.
Dear Editor, Season’s Greetings and thanks to all BFD staff for sterling work building up the site in tremendously difficult circumstances during 2021. On the 16th of December, fed up with our New Zealand Ministers of Parliament’s inability or unwillingness to confront Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s repeated
Guy Hatchard PhD Guy Hatchard PhD was formerly a senior manager at Genetic ID, a global food testing and certification company. He is an advocate of natural preventive approaches to health. D-Day for vaccinating 5-11-year-olds is upon us. If as a parent (or a politician) you do a google search
There is a line in the Chernobyl film that accurately portrays the situation that we find ourselves in today: “When the truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there but it is still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to
Joyce Kamen rescue.substack.com Joyce Kamen is the VP of public information at the Frontline Covid19 Critical Care Alliance (flccc.net). She is an Emmy award-winning writer, publicist, journalist, columnist, and producer of documentary films. Information Opinion Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing
I’ve known Guy Hatchard for several years through mutual campaigning to prevent natural products from being captured by Big Pharma. I’ve read his book DNA, which explains how DNA listens to our food – yes, it does! I’ve got to know him even better over the last year.
Richard Hume Don’t you love it when they advertise getting vaccinated in a place that you can only access if you have already been vaccinated? This billboard is up in my gym, a place you can only go in to if you have a vaccine pass. While I am
Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. Since 2018, Kurt has been the Research and Features Editor at the Canberra Declaration. He is also a freelance writer, and a regular contributor at the Spectator Australia, MercatorNet, Caldron
The ridiculous, unedifying Novak Djokovic saga continues to embarrass Australia. Not since Lindy Chamberlain, perhaps, or Cardinal Pell, has the media had such a field day whipping up a firestorm of hate. Not since Egon Kisch in 1934 has a government made such a ludicrous ass out of itself in
Brownstone Institute brownstone.org The Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research is a nonprofit organization conceived of in May 2021 in support of a society that minimizes the role of violence in public life. Professor Ehud Qimron is head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Tel Aviv
Abridged from M. Desmet: “The Psychology of Totalitarianism” Mass Formation – brief summary • Totalitarianism requires the total obedience of the masses • This obedience is been created via mass formation process inside the population • Four conditions are needed: 1. The masses must feel alone and isolated. 2. Their lives must feel pointless
Dear Editor The Australian government’s high-handed treatment of Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic because of his refusal to have the Covid vaccination not only highlights the weakness of the case for the jab but also suggests that Djokovic’s state of health is not the real reason for threatening
The Headline from Newshub states: “About 3 pct of young people with COVID-19 experience severe outcomes – study” This headline would make the average person believe that about 3 per cent of young people with COVID-19 experience severe outcomes. The study actually looked at “What proportion of SARS-CoV-2–positive youths tested
Gary Moller garymoller.com Last Sunday I rode out to visit a young mother who is confined between her bed and the couch following the jab some months ago. Her heart is too weak for much more and she must be wheeled to the bathroom when the need arises. While
New Conservative Co-Leaders New Conservative Helen Houghton, (Christchurch) Ted Johnston, BSc BA LLB (Auckland) New Conservative wishes to sound a note of caution against vaccinating healthy children for Covid. The equation is simple: what are the benefits, and what are the risks? The risks to healthy children who catch the
Jonathan Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,
