Health
Vaping Debacle: Ministry of Health Caught in a Web of Deceit
The vaping debacle is a case study in bureaucratic arrogance and political cowardice. The MOH needs a clean-out, starting with the clowns who thought they could pull the wool over everyone’s eyes.
New Vaccine Health Study’s Loaded Agenda
When it comes to personal physical health, we have a basic responsibility to thoroughly vet all authorities at all times, especially those clad in white lab coats.
Can You Lodge Your Own ACC Claim?
The process may be frustrating and long winded, but you are entitled to care, support, and compensation. Be assertive. Be stubborn. Don’t take no for an answer.
The Commission on C-19 Phase Two
Taken as a whole, the commission’s positions, which we watched unfold live, appear to amount to a pre-determined and completely inadequate outcome.
Luxon’s Medical School Gamble: Throwing Cash at Waikato’s Shaky Reputation
Luxon’s Government gets a half-hearted pat on the back for sticking to their word. But pushing ahead with a medical school at an institution with a shaky academic reputation? That’s a gamble... and not a smart one.
The Numbers Grow Despite Tiny Workforce
It’s time we focused on and fully funded world-class palliative care – and not a lethal injection. We can live without euthanasia.
Open Letter to the Hon Winston Peters and NZ First MPs
It is sensible to await the consideration of the Royal Commission before taking steps which will enshrine automatic approvals and emergency use of gene technology in NZ law.
A Duty to Resist, NZMJ
The editors are confirming their adherence to a political ideology rather than scientific excellence. They confirm that they are more interested in prioritising the work of selected groups and not in whether their research is valuable or not.
Auckland Protest Over Gene Tech Bill
Auckland will see a peaceful protest this Saturday as advocacy group GE Honesty rallies opposition to the Government’s controversial Gene Tech Bill.
What’s the Truth About POTS?
Pro-vaccine consultants ask my (now adult) kids whether or not they have had vaccinations – they are definitely observing a link between certain vaccinations and POTS developing or worsening.
The Hippocratic Oath and the Covid Debacle
Is the Hippocratic Oath, which dates back to antiquity, relevant today?
Raw Egg Nationalist: Mankind May Cease
As for the scale, while reproductive issues are something all human societies face, our problem today is existential. Like I say, Spermageddon.
Retired Couple Face 70% Health Insurance Increase
Rebecca Styles, investigative team leader at Consumer NZ, told Chris Lynch Media the increases are part of a wider trend across the industry.
So Who Is to Blame?
Behind the theatre of the royal commission hearings there is a lesson to be learned. Biotechnology experimentation is not saving lives, it is taking them. So far it seems the commission is not capable of entertaining this central lesson of the pandemic.
Update on the IHR Amendments
More money will be channeled to ever-growing bureaucracies whose sole function, whose only reason for existence, is to identify theoretical threats that can be used to close economies, remove the livelihoods of others, and extract more of their remaining wealth.