**This article has been republished. It is one of the most popular articles from 2021. While the rest of the “Team of $55 million” in Big Media were dribbling over a video of Jacinda Ardern walking in Wellington, claiming it went viral, they missed the real viral explosion all over
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Martin Lally On the 23rd of July of this year, seven professors of the University of Auckland penned a letter to the Listener asserting that Matauranga Maori was not science. Professor Joanna Kidman of Victoria University was the first to sound the alarm and went straight to the heart of
Over nine days ago I exposed the existence of a Police spy unit ominously called the ‘Scanning and Targeting Team’. We found out about this team as a result of an Official Information Act request regarding the labelling, by the Police, of The BFD as a misinformation site. What the
Graham Adams Graham Adams is a journalist, columnist and reviewer who has written for many of the country’s media outlets including Metro, North & South, Noted, The Spinoff and Newsroom. Reading the statement last week by Dawn Freshwater announcing a symposium to be held next year to debate the
Freedom of speech and movement are fundamental rights in a liberal democracy and many New Zealanders fought and died so that we may continue to enjoy them. The lockdowns have seriously challenged these rights and we largely accepted these without question until the Prime Minister chose to use daily media
It takes a special kind of chutzpah to accuse others of “inaccuracy”, “disinformation” and “writing with an agenda” when those are exactly the tools you’re using to attack them. But then, this is the New Zealand mainstream media and left-cultural establishment we’re talking about. These sorts of deceitful
Oiwan Lam globalvoices.org Oiwan lam is a media activist, researcher and educator currently based in Hong Kong. Her Chinese writings are in inmediahk.net Reporters Without Borders (RSF), a prominent international press freedom watchdog, released its latest report on China, “The Great Leap Backwards of Journalism in China,” on
Ulrich Kutschera mercatornet.com Ulrich Kutschera, PhD, is a Professor of Biology at AK Evolutionsbiologie in Freiburg, Germany, and a scientific collaborator at research institutes in Stanford, California (USA). He has a website at www.evolutionsbiologen.de. This year marks the centenary of the birth of a man who is
Graham Adams Graham Adams has been involved in publishing in New Zealand for the past 40 years as a journalist, columnist, reviewer, magazine editor and subeditor. He has also worked as a book editor and screenwriter. He has a BA in psychology and French, and a MA in classical Greek,
One News recently ran a hit job on Tross Publishing, a publisher that we at The BFD are very familiar with as we have run advertorials for two of its books and have given away copies of them to six of our lucky members. The attack by One News was
Some months ago, in September, I received credible information from a source that The BFD and myself were being actively monitored by Police Intelligence and that at least once we had even been mentioned in a weekly Police Intelligence briefing. Fortunately I was able to OIA the precise documents where
I mistakenly used to think that people generally respond positively when presented with facts that oppose their thinking. I was wrong. People do not change their thinking or behaviour if they derive benefits from misleading and inaccurate information. Mask wearing is an example of not following the science. At the
Colin Ford In Other News www.inothernews.co.nz Information Opinion I came across an article published on Linked-in last week, that to me, typifies the dangerous attitudes of the Wokesters, a group who I would argue, got us into the mess New Zealand is in today. The article, by
Ivan Oransky mercatornet.com Ivan Oransky, MD, is a cofounder of Retraction Watch, editor in chief of Spectrum and a distinguished writer in residence at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.He is a member of Knowable’s Magazine Advisory Group. A warning: This article will not
Okay, after that third instalment, I suspect we would all like a good dose of mind-bleach. But, blinding ourselves to the insidiousness of the Long March is not the way to save ourselves from it. Still, after dealing with the creepiness of the commie kiddy-fiddlers, let’s deal with a,
