This leak exposes a rotten core in New Zealand’s tobacco control scene, where hypocrisy reigns and public health takes a back seat to agendas.
We have a government and a food regulation regime that is determined to reduce transparency and consumer information, allowing newly introduced, highly processed and possibly genetically modified ingredients to escape identification throughout the food chain and on labels.
While the minister touts “stronger cybersecurity”, no details were offered about how the system will avoid the failures seen in recent high-profile public-sector breaches.
Is taxpayer money funding advocacy to create a monopoly for a foreign tobacco firm? Why the selective promotion of one company’s tech? And has the MOH stitched up their minister again?
The inquiry should have been a reckoning. Instead, it became a shield – protecting institutions rather than illuminating truth.
The story was not entirely unanimous. Out of almost 10 minutes, about a minute was granted to dissent.
It is long past time for a public discussion of the limits of what is actually known about DNA and the risks to human life that are being recklessly hazarded.
Where are the medical professionals supporting the ban on puberty blocker prescription?
For the clinicians and nurses who just want to look after patients, the whole situation is beyond frustrating. They are watching a health system in crisis and, instead of fixing the basics, the leadership seems obsessed with political symbolism.
Casey Costello says they stared down the mob to get there.
If we can’t test claims, challenge data, or ask uncomfortable questions without fear of retribution, then we no longer have science – we have marketing. The weaponisation of science ends only when truth becomes more valuable than profit.
The public health bullies are watching what you eat.
The lobotomy of our time is over: New Zealand bans puberty blockers for kids.
She says they are now moving toward punitive action that could leave her unemployed by January, when her hearing is due to take place.
The best interests of the child should remain central to all decisions about banning or regulating surrogacy, as well as to the creation of laws that protect the child’s fundamental rights.
