From the 1950s on, a decades-long craze for lobotomies swept the medical world. Never mind that the evidence for its efficacy was nebulous at best – doctors convinced themselves that it worked simply because they so desperately wanted to believe that it did. After all, lobotomy offered a quick surgical short-cut
Australia’s taxpayer-funded national broadcaster has a rather dubious record when it comes to spruiking child abusers. In the 70s, it notoriously allowed leftist darling Richard Neville (who openly boasted of shagging underage girls in his memoirs) to give a sympathetic platform to a panel of “paederasts”. Now, it’s
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com On December 31 last year, the Municipal Health Committee in the city of Wuhan – the capital of the Hubei province in central China – announced a small outbreak of an unknown type of viral pneumonia. It had affected 27 people associated with South China Seafood City,
Dennis Prager PA Pundits International Dennis Prager is a columnist for The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation and he is a nationally syndicated radio host, and creator of PragerU. We go from hysteria to hysteria. And even that’s not quite accurate. We now endure multiple hysterias at once.
Well, here we are, with 3 confirmed cases of the virus in New Zealand. It seems that the answer to the question as to what 3 things you would take with you on a desert island is: toilet paper, bottled water and hand sanitiser. Dettol now seems to be joining
One need only look at the Extinction Rebellion phenomenon to see how bizarrely and hysterically disconnected from reality and reason the elite really are. Extinction Rebellion, and its Climate Jugend led by the odious Greta Thunberg, is an elite obsession par excellence: wealthy, privileged, private-school toffs shouting and shaking their
While I’m a firm believer that the reporting of the Coronavirus is in many ways a bit of an over-reaction by the worldwide mainstream media, I could be persuaded to change my view if I or one of my loved ones who happens to be elderly ends up dying
Judith Graham Kaiser Health News For a dozen years, Larry Bocchiere, 68, didn’t find it especially difficult to care for his wife, Deborah, who struggled with breathing problems. But as her illness took a downward turn, he became overwhelmed by stress. “I was constantly on guard for any change
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Chinese scientists studying Covid-19 have discovered a section of mutated genes that does not exist in Sars but is similar to those found in HIV and Ebola, raising the possibility of a man-made mutation. “According to the study, the mutation can generate a structure known as a cleavage site in
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You might think that poor old Tim “Soupy” Soutphommasane would be at a bit of a loose end these days, ever since he was finally prised, shrieking and wailing, from the taxapayer teat. But, never fear, the nomeklatura look out for themselves. Soupy now revels in the gloriously Marxist title
This NZ teacher covers the complexities of gender and sexuality issues so well I feel we could all benefit from seeing her address in its entirety. She does not speak from a Christian perspective but mainly from sound pedagogical principles ie good educational practice. Here is a link to a
Caleb Stephen CitizenGO Please sign this petition calling on Winston Peters to immediately withdraw his Government’s Abortion Legislation Bill. It is not too late for him to do the right thing here. SAY NO TO ABORTION! Dear Leo, Before the 2017 election, deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters made clear
At a recent social gathering, regarding coronavirus, someone ventured to ask, “Why do all these new diseases seem to come from Asia?” It seems a reasonable question: SARS, Nipah virus, Avian flu, Swine flu…historically, too, the bubonic plague is thought to have originated in Mongolia, and cholera in India.
