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COVID-19 Vaccination Is an Ethical Minefield, Even for Doctors

Margaret Somerville mercatornet.com Margaret Somerville is Professor of Bioethics at the University of Notre Dame Australia School of Medicine (Sydney campus). She is also Samuel Gale Professor of Law Emerita, Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Medicine, and Founding Director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law Emerita

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Why Don’t We Have a Cure for Alzheimer’s Disease?

Donald Weaver University of Toronto Dr. Weaver’s research interests are focused on computer-aided drug design and medicinal chemistry with particular applications to chronic neurodegenerative disorders. His general approach employs a variety of theoretical chemistry techniques (molecular quantum mechanics [ab initio and density functional theory], force field calculations, molecular dynamics

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A One-Trick Pony in the War on COVID-19

A One-Trick Pony in the War on COVID-19

We want the vaccine rollout to go faster because vaccinated people will help achieve herd immunity, keep our borders open, make disastrous lockdowns a thing of the past, and allow us to dust off our passports and travel again. Sounds simple and achievable, doesn’t it? “While Australia has rolled

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Collins’ Comments

Collins’ Comments

Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz A Budget for benefits not jobs The government has surprised everyone with their policies over recent weeks as they softened us up for their fourth Budget announced last week. It was interesting that we saw announcements that public sector employees would face a

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An Open Letter to Our Prime Minister from Mike King

An Open Letter to Our Prime Minister from Mike King

Dear Prime Minister Today is the 3rd anniversary of Gumboot Friday and to celebrate I’ll be walking 100,000 meters in Gumboots around the Auckland Domain to raise $100k that will go towards our $5 million goal. If we reach our goal it will provide over 37,000 free

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Another Broken Promise

Another Broken Promise

The Labour Party really has a bad reputation for the non-delivery of promises; breaking major promises almost weekly. Following the failures of Kiwibuild, light rail, solving child poverty, mental health funding amongst many, many others, they’ve now broken another election promise: Labour has shifted the goalposts on one of

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Not Quite the Generations of Mutants We Were Expecting

Not Quite the Generations of Mutants We Were Expecting

It’s been a stock trope of post-apocalyptic fiction since at least the late 1950s, when Walter M Miller published his classic A Canticle for Liebowitz. In Miller’s book, even a thousand years after a nuclear war, mutants like the two-headed Mrs Grales persist, like a nuclear Mark of

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Thanks for Nothing, Paul

I despise the late Paul Holmes with a passion. And no, it’s not because he shamelessly ripped off Aussie’s Derryn Hinch. To explain why, I need to go back to around 2009. In 2009 Paul’s daughter (you know the one) was a full-on meth addict. Together with

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Fact Check: Does George Christensen’s Bill Force Medical Intervention When There’s No Chance of Survival?

Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news Secretary of the “Reason Party”, Emma Sinclair, has presented a poor-performing video claiming to debunk George Christensen’s Children Born Alive Protection Bill. For context, the “Reason Party” was formerly called the “Australian Sex Party”, and was established in 2009 by Fiona Patten, the then CEO

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Dr Shane Reti – Labour’s Direction in Health Hugely Disappointing

Thursday’s Broken Compass Budget has revealed the impact the Government’s decision to radically restructure our health sector will have on the health of all New Zealanders, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “Labour has allocated almost half billion dollars to ‘begin the transition’ to its proposed

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Careening down the Slippery Slope in Record Time

Careening down the Slippery Slope in Record Time

The more the “progressive” left scream and bluster that there’s no slippery slope, the faster they shove us all down its greased rails. It took less than two years to go from a state-run mail-in opinion survey on gay marriage to radical transgender laws in Tasmania (the latter was

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