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Letter to the Editor: The Evidence Is Piling Up

Letter to the Editor: The Evidence Is Piling Up

Dear Editor Ventavia dismissed employee, Brook Jackson blew the whistle on unsound practices by her employer who was under contract to carry out trials on the Pfizer vaccine. Two New Zealand researchers, Dr Simon Thornley and Dr Aleisha Brock, found glaring errors in CDC study on the safety of the

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Discrimination of the Day

Discrimination of the Day

FUCK you Jacinda! #ResignJacinda pic.twitter.com/4MW4wF280g — Nictorious NZ (@Nictorious_NZ) November 6, 2021 With your help Discrimination of the Day will become a regular segment on The BFD. Let’s highlight the racism and discrimination inside New Zealand together because it is NOT OK! There is NOTHING positive

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British Medical Journal Investigation into Pfizer

British Medical Journal Investigation into Pfizer

Information Opinion A week ago, The BFD published a review of the Pfizer vaccine trials in which I analysed the actual data released by the company. The takeaway for readers was that the numbers simply did not justify government decisions. Pfizer trumpeted headlines about over 43,000 participants enrolled in

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Rushed Decisions Lead To Regret: Part 3

Gerhard Sundborn Epidemiologist, University of Auckland, Department of Pacific Health, New Zealand Simon Thornley Epidemiologist/Public Health Physician, University of Auckland, Section of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, New Zealand Rupert Scott General Practitioner, Whangarei, New Zealand René de Monchy General Practitioner and Psychiatrist, Tauranga, New Zealand Matt Shelton General Practitioner, Wellington,

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Tetraplegic woman reliant on carers fears ‘no jab, no job’ policy will force skilled workers out of ‘understaffed’ industry The Tauranga-based tetraplegic is reliant on her caregivers 24/7 and is fearing the worst. “I struggle to understand how the Government can get a mandate on health care providers, which

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Private Health Info Should Stay Private

Private Health Info Should Stay Private

David Seymour ACT Leader The Ministry of Health has done the right thing by not handing over the private health information of individuals based on race. The effect of a High Court judgement last week that Whanau Ora Commissioning Agency should have access to Maori data to try to lift

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Rushed Decisions Lead To Regret: Part 2

Gerhard Sundborn Epidemiologist, University of Auckland, Department of Pacific Health, New Zealand Simon Thornley Epidemiologist/Public Health Physician, University of Auckland, Section of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, New Zealand Rupert Scott General Practitioner, Whangarei, New Zealand René de Monchy General Practitioner and Psychiatrist, Tauranga, New Zealand Matt Shelton General Practitioner, Wellington,

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Teed Off

Shelby We are surely closing in on peak stupidity. Or should that be peak coercion or peak blackmail? I am a golfer. I have played golf since I was 13 years old, and that was 54 years ago. I have loved the game all my life. There was a time

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Rushed Decisions Lead To Regret: Part 1

Gerhard Sundborn Epidemiologist, University of Auckland, Department of Pacific Health, New Zealand Simon Thornley Epidemiologist/Public Health Physician, University of Auckland, Section of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, New Zealand Rupert Scott General Practitioner, Whangarei, New Zealand René de Monchy General Practitioner and Psychiatrist, Tauranga, New Zealand Matt Shelton General Practitioner, Wellington,

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Government Captured by Ministry of Health

Government Captured by Ministry of Health

David Seymour ACT Leader ACT can reveal Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield has attended Cabinet 17 times this year, a breach of Cabinet’s own rules. Ashley Bloomfield probably speaks more in Cabinet than most Cabinet Ministers. He almost certainly attends Cabinet more than Ministers out of Cabinet, such

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