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Using the Disabled as Political Tools

Using the Disabled as Political Tools

Laura Rosen Cohen brownstone.org Laura Rosen Cohen is a Toronto writer. Her work has been featured in the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, National Post, the Jerusalem Post, the Jerusalem Report, the Canadian Jewish News and Newsweek among others. She is a special needs parent and also a

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Power, Health and Big Lies

Power, Health and Big Lies

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Sometimes, the struggle to accept the enormous wrongness of the situation facing us is overwhelming and makes words hard to find. Thankfully for us, this week two writers dear to us have produced reasoned and concise articles that each amplifies and

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NZ Launches ‘0800 Dial an Abortion’ Service

NZ Launches ‘0800 Dial an Abortion’ Service

righttolife.org.uk The New Zealand Government has launched a new ‘DIY’ abortion scheme that allows women and girls to ‘free-phone’ a number and have abortion pills delivered to them in what has been described as ‘state-sponsored backstreet abortion’. Following the introduction of one of the most extreme abortion laws

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Raw Vegan Diet May Be a Risk to Your Health

Laura Brown Teesside University Laura Brown’s professional experiences are divided between delivering training, workshops and lecturing across a range of Sport, Health and Exercise disciplines, conducting research, and Enterprise projects. Vegan diets have become increasingly popular over the years, especially among people looking to improve their health. Indeed, a

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We Must Have Accountability

Justin Hart brownstone.org Justin Hart is an executive consultant with over 25 years experience creating data-driven solutions for Fortune 500 companies and Presidential campaigns alike. Mr. Hart is the Chief Data Analyst and founder of RationalGround.com which helps companies, public policy officials, and even parents gauge the impact

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Tipping Point: Part Two

Louise M Diack kiwi-chronicle.ghost.io Information Opinion In The Other Side of the Tipping Point, I talked about feeling that at long last we were coming out of a dark period in recent history. This is something of a follow-up. I read an encouraging article by The Vigilant Fox

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My Snoring Is Waking up My Partner. What Are My Options?

Amal Osman Bastien Lechat Danny Eckert Flinders University Dr Amal Osman has developed simple clinical tools to measure upper airway collapsibility in people with obstructive sleep apnoea. Bastien Lechat is an expert in the fields of machine learning, signal processing, epidemiology, and clinical sleep research. Professor Eckert is an experienced

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The Tassie Teen Crippled by COVID Vax

The Tassie Teen Crippled by COVID Vax

It’s one thing to read the many stories of people adversely affected by the Covid vaccines, quite another to see one in the flesh. I first met Faith Ranson and her mother Tania in November last year, at one of a series of rallies held across Tasmania as part

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There T'Ain't Enough of It

There T’Ain’t Enough of It

An old friend of the family who was a senior member of the Salvation Army had a wonderful saying about tainted money. He always said that the only problem with tainted money was that there t’ain’t enough of it. It is certainly a sentiment that Starship Foundation should

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Going With Your Gut Is Always a Good Idea

Going With Your Gut Is Always a Good Idea

LiveBrew Q&A What is LiveBrew? LiveBrew is a fresh, live, and active liquid that contains high numbers of probiotic lactobacilli and the beneficial metabolites (organic acids, etc.) produced by those microbes. We guarantee there are more than a billion CFU (colony forming units) of our lactobacilli in every

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Going With Your Gut Is Always a Good Idea

Going With Your Gut Is Always a Good Idea

LiveBrew Q&A What is LiveBrew? LiveBrew is a fresh, live, and active liquid that contains high numbers of probiotic lactobacilli and the beneficial metabolites (organic acids, etc.) produced by those microbes. We guarantee there are more than a billion CFU (colony forming units) of our lactobacilli in every

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Mike King – Gumboot Friday November 4th

Mike King – Gumboot Friday November 4th

Alwyn Poole Innovative Education Consultants innovativeeducation.co.nz alwynpoole.substack.com I count Mike King as a good friend. He has spoken a number of times in schools I have been associated with and is always brilliant. The kids recognise the message and the person as a TREASURE. He lifted

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How’s ‘Get F-d’ Sound for an Answer?

How’s ‘Get F-d’ Sound for an Answer?

Imagine if, at the end of the Third Reich, the Nazis had pooh-poohed the need for the Nuremberg trials or de-Nazification. “We’re all good, then? Forgive and forget, eh?” Imagine if Apartheid ended, not with a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, but a blithe admonition to “Let’s not dwell

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Modelling Not Fit for Purpose

Modelling Not Fit for Purpose

Carl Heneghan Tom Jefferson brownstone.org Carl Heneghan is Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine and a practising GP. A clinical epidemiologist, he studies patients receiving care from clinicians, especially those with common problems, with the aim of improving the evidence base used in clinical practice. Tom Jefferson is

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We Need to Talk about Ayesha Verrall

We Need to Talk about Ayesha Verrall

John McLean Ayesha Verrall is a classic of our times in “Aotearoa” New Zealand. In 1997 Verrall was a member of the New Zealand Youth Parliament. She was president of the Otago Medical Students’ Association in 2001 and is currently the Minister for COVID-19 Response, for Research, Science and Innovation

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

This needs to be shared far and wide. I’m not ashamed to say some dust flew into my eyes while listening to Mike. His wife says on his Facebook page: Mike rang me when he was on his way in to the radio to do this talk. He was

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