Emily Burns Emily Burns is a graduate of Sweet Briar College in Biochemistry and Music, and did studies toward a PhD in neuroscience at Rockefeller University. She is the founder of Learnivore and other ventures, and works with Rational Ground as a contributor. Aaron Kheriaty Aaron Kheriaty, Senior Brownstone Scholar
Gary Moller Gary Moller is a Health Practitioner who is focused on addressing the root causes of ill health or poor performance by making use of a key forensic tool – Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis – and administering healthy, natural and sustainable therapies. garymoller.com Please take a few minutes to read
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com The Fox is Guarding the Hen House Caretaker New Zealand Minister of Health Dr Ayesha Verrall has renewed provisional consent for Covid-19 vaccines as at 3 November 2023 for a further two years. Announced on 1 November 2023 by Chris
Kimberly Ells Kimberly Ells is the author of The Invincible Family. Follow her at Invincible Family Substack. mercatornet.com A handful of philosophers through the years have trotted out the idea that parents should be required to get a license to raise their own children. After all, doctors and plumbers
Freya Higgins-Desbiolles University of South Australia James Higham Griffith University An Auckland court has found Whakaari Management Limited (WML) guilty of breaching workplace safety laws relating to the Whakaari/White Island eruption in 2019. This decision could have implications for anyone involved in adventure tourism in New Zealand. When
October 30th 2023 I left my last letter with questions regarding international law and how it applies to the Middle Eastern situation. The first tricky question is: Who makes international law? The second one is: To whom does it apply? If there is such a thing as international law, what
Andrew Bydder Trumped – To have been attacked by the left/woke/bureaucracy/deep state using a weaponised judicial system I would not normally put myself in the same category as greats like Jordan Peterson, Elon Musk, Russell Brand or our heroic Kiwi doctors and nurses who are still being penalised
Alan Lash Alan Lash is a software developer from Northern California, with a masters degree physics and a PhD in mathematics. brownstone.org Renewed calls for mask mandates are on the rise, as reports of scary Covid variants are making their way through the news. My perception is that most
Well, it’s official, now: Australia’s worst-kept secret is finally, legally, public. The “high profile Australian man” facing rape charges in Queensland is Bruce Lehrmann. Lehrmann was, famously, accused of rape by former fellow parliamentary staffer Brittany Higgins — a case which collapsed without a verdict ever being reached.
Alexandra Sims University of Auckland Trish O’Sullivan Massey University theconversation.com There was a time when the family washing machine would last decades, with each breakdown fixed by the friendly local repair person. But those days are long gone. Today, it is often faster, easier and cheaper to replace
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com A Court of Appeal decision was released last week that will have a profound influence on the future of New Zealand. Poor drafting and a radical application of ‘tikanga’ by the judiciary has delivered the exact opposite outcome from what the public was promised. The
One BBC reporter got more truth than she expected when she interviewed international law expert, barrister Natasha Hausdorff. The answers didn’t quite fit the narrative the reporter wanted to portray. Discuss it on the BFD. If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads
Peter Jacobsen Peter Jacobsen is a Writing Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org It happened as I went to grab a new package of baby wipes from under the sink. I flipped on my bathroom light, and I noticed something strange – one of my three mirror light
Canada remains one of the only countries in the world that allows legal and regulated access to recreational marijuana. But five years after the drug’s legalisation, the country’s cannabis industry is struggling for survival. Wait, what? […] Take Aurora Cannabis, for example. The Alberta-based cannabis manufacturer – one of
Amanda Reilly Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington theconversation.com When Wellington carpenter Samuel Parnell began the struggle for an eight-hour working day back in 1840, he could have never foreseen how modern work culture would evolve. But he would no doubt empathise with the challenges faced by
The big tough gang members are actually a bunch of crybabies: A prominent Mongrel Mob president claims National’s gang policies are devastating, a breach of their human rights, and will create a “psychological war”. Speaking exclusively to the Herald, Waikato Mongrel Mob Kingdom leader Sonny Fatupaito said after reading
