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.
Health
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.
My Body Must Be My Castle
Watering down the right to refuse medical treatment based on the notion of the ‘greater good’ is a step away from enlightenment and progress and a leap backwards towards the Dark Ages.
PBS Tariffs Should Be an Opportunity Not a Threat
Well, it would be, if we had a half-competent government.
Big Weed Is No Better than Big Pharma
‘Medicinal cannabis’ is a black market in all but name.
What Will Happen Next? What Should We Do?
Despite his concern, it became clear the MP felt powerless to change the track the coalition is taking to deregulate biotechnology. He believed if he tried to discuss the vaccine, he would be sidelined by the political doctrine of his party leaders and he is probably right in this.
Is This the Next Social Contagion?
There have always been a group of girls, usually beginning in year nine who are unhappy. Their unhappiness manifests differently depending on what’s current.