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A Step Towards a Borg Future?

A Step Towards a Borg Future?

Simon Marvin Director, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield Allan McCay Academic Fellow, University of Sydney Law School, University of Sydney Elon Musk’s company called Neuralink, launched in 2016, aims to implant a piece of technology in people’s brains that would allow them to control a computer or phone

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They Should Have Done Better

They Should Have Done Better

Rev John F Naugle Reverend John F Naugle is the Parochial Vicar at St. Augustine Parish in Beaver County. BS, Economics and Mathematics, S. Vincent College; MA, Philosophy, Duquesne University; STB, Catholic University of America. brownstone.org In honor of the fourth anniversary of the tyrannical overreaction to a largely

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Of Drug Regulation and the Biotech Future

Dr Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior manager

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Vitamin C Deficiency Identified in Adult Hospital Patients

Janet Golder PhD Candidate, Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Judy Bauer Professor and Interim Head, Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Lisa Barker Senior Lecturer, Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Christopher Lemoh Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Department of Medicine Simone Gibson Associate Professor, School of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of

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Disclosure Scheme for Pharma Payments Falls Short

David Menkes Associate Professor in Psychological Medicine, University of Auckland Pharmaceutical industry payments to doctors are common, often substantial, and can affect clinical decision making. Seven years after the industry trade association Medicines New Zealand first mooted a disclosure system, pharmaceutical companies operating in New Zealand recently revealed their financial

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Engaging With the NZ COVID-19 Inquiry: Make Your Voice Count

Engaging With the NZ COVID-19 Inquiry: Make Your Voice Count

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science NZDSOS.com Engaging with the NZ Covid-19 inquiry is important – for our healing and for our futures. As we continue to navigate the brave new world post covid, it is crucial for us as citizens to take a critical look at the

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Why We Don’t Need a Second Royal Commission C-19 Review

Why We Don’t Need a Second Royal Commission C-19 Review

My review won’t be submitted because it does not fit the Royal Commission [RC] criteria for submission and I do not believe a more comprehensive review with a new unbiased panel is justified. Just under $74B was set aside for Covid-19 [C-19] and more than $10M was

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Teens Report Feeling ‘Peaceful’ Without Smartphones

Teens Report Feeling ‘Peaceful’ Without Smartphones

As I’ve written before, social media companies are the Big Tobacco of the 2000s. Their own research shows that they know their products are extremely harmful to (mental) health, especially for impressionable children and teens, especially girls — but they continue to market to them anyway. And if social media

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WPATH’s Experiment on Children Must Be Halted

WPATH’s Experiment on Children Must Be Halted

Family First NZ Family First NZ is calling on the government to halt gender affirmative treatment of minors and for a full inquiry into the long term effects and potential harms of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. The call comes in response to the release of internal files from

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How Low Can Canada Go?

How Low Can Canada Go?

Maria Kulp Associate Professor of Philosophy, Gonzaga University Imagine that you have lived with an illness for years. The suffering this illness has caused is devastating – so much that you wish to die. You no longer feel like the person you were before. You have been to see specialists, have

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It’s Time to Protect the Next Generation

bobmccoskrie.com ONE OF OUR MOST IMPORTANT EPISODES: Advocates of gender-affirming care say it’s evidence-based. But now, newly released internal files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) prove that the practice of transgender medicine is neither scientific nor medical. Thousands of doctors worldwide rely

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Where’s Tony Abbott When You Need Him?

Where’s Tony Abbott When You Need Him?

Back in the early 2000s, Australia was looking down the barrel of what the AMA called “arguably the biggest potential disaster the medical community has ever faced”. Skyrocketing medical indemnity costs were forcing more and more doctors out of practice. A meeting of 5000 doctors in Sydney threatened to pull

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The Arrogance of the Elite

The Arrogance of the Elite

Dear Editor Watching ‘The Chaser’ on TV, I was exposed yet again to the Pacific Island bowel screening advert. The one with the big group singing and cheering, and the kid finishing with “You can Poo it” to his grandfather. It was clearly designed by someone with a very low

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The True History of Public Health Colonialism

The True History of Public Health Colonialism

David Bell David Bell, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), Programme Head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in

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