Health
Waitemata DHB Says No Exemptions for You!
With the looming ‘no jab, no job’ vaccine policy for the education and health sectors, the process to issue vaccination exemption certificates is still non-existent – and doctors are being asked to keep out of it. On Friday the 15th of October, Waitemata DHB issued a message via Medinz stating
COVID-19 Could Nudge Minds and Societies Towards Authoritarianism
Leor Zmigrod University of Cambridge Leor Zmigrod’s research aims to combine experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience to study the psychological processes that underlie ideology adherence and group identity formation. It is a little-known fact that humans have not one but two immune systems. The first, the biophysical immune
Why It’s Time to Treat Medicinal Cannabis as an Alternative Therapy, Not a Pharmaceutical
Marta Rychert Chris Wilkins Vinuli Withanarachchie Massey University Dr Marta Rychert is a Senior Researcher at Massey University with expertise in drug policy, health law and public health. Associate Professor Chris Wilkins is the leader of the drug research team at SHORE & Whariki Research Centre, Massey University, and has
Are You Ready for Tomorrow?
Chris Hipkins If you haven’t yet made plans for Super Saturday, there’s still time to get involved (even if you’ve had your two shots!) and help New Zealand get vaccinated. If you missed the news, tomorrow’s Super Saturday event is taking place right around the country
ICUs with Large Maori Populations Already at Maximum Capacity, What Happens When COVID Hits?
Intensive care unit occupancy rates in district health board areas with large Maori populations were at capacity even before Covid and the current Delta outbreak, says National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti. This is yet more evidence of very slim ICU margins that we have at the moment and
Hammer Goes Looking for ‘Racist’ Nails
To a hammer, everything is a nail. To a gimlet-eyed “anti-racist”, everything is “racist”. The racism-obsessive, as Theodore Dalrymple has written, “looks at the world through race-tinted spectacles, interprets every event or social phenomenon as a manifestation of racism either implicit or explicit, and in general
Prime Minister, Why Are Midwives to Be Trained to Kill?
Ken Orr Spokesperson Right to Life righttolife.org.nz Right to Life defends the duty of midwives to be the protector of the lives of unborn children and their mothers. For thousands of years civilisation has upheld the duty of midwives to be the guardian of the womb and the
Vaccine Mandates Twist COVID-19 Saga
covidplanb.co.nz The most recent twist in the covid-19 saga is forcing hard-working New Zealanders to believe in the story of the ‘deadly virus’ and ‘saviour’ vaccine. This will inevitably mean many will now be forced to choose between their jobs and their sense of autonomy over
Government Talking Drivel on Saliva
David Seymour ACT Leader The Ministry of Health couldn’t order a pizza, let alone contract saliva testing, as new revelations surface that it is still trying to work out if its contracted saliva tests are reliable. It’s time for the Government to finally get real, put the Ministry
Treatment for Gender Dysphoria ‘Polarised’, ‘Mixed Evidence’ – College of Psychiatrists
Family First The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) have released a position statement on gender dysphoria, and in it they explicitly acknowledge that “there are polarised views and mixed evidence regarding treatment options for people presenting with gender identity concerns, especially children and young people.” The
Another Fad or a Gender Virus?
In recent months, and within a relatively small circle of family, friends and acquaintances, I’ve heard of a range of identity issues gradually or even suddenly arising among a few quite disparate teenage girls. There seem to be some common denominators with these kids, in that they are all