Someone once said that if you tell a lie often enough people will believe it, particularly if the lie is a big one. Make no mistake, the Covid vaccination lie is a very big one. How does she explain the current guidelines for overseas nursing recruitment? Likewise, NZ hospitals still
Nurses for Freedom NZ Dear Friends and Colleagues Thank you for supporting Nurses for Freedom NZ during 2022; we appreciate each and everyone of you! Thank you especially to all those who have supported us financially, with kind words and prayers. I thought I would take this opportunity to give
OpenAI has trained a model called ChatGPT to interact in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction
Many commentators and pundits like making lists of best that or worst this, announcing “winners” and “losers”. I thought I’d do something different and give a list of New Zealanders of the Year. This list won’t be some woke travesty that is as perverse as it is diverse.
Was Bloomfield our NZ Director of Health gullible or just straight-out lazy? The lead-up to and during the first lockdown he was far too trusting of the information he was receiving from The World Health Organization and The NIH. During the first lockdown and afterwards very interesting research
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The Doctor Last night I enjoyed a great film about a team of magicians who pulled off global bank robberies as part of their act. They were so far ahead in their planning that the FBI and Interpol were left fumbling around, clueless. I can think of no better description
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. It has been reported that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will not host her centrepiece Waitangi Day breakfast next year. According to reports by the Guardian
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Last night the ‘far now’ arrived down from the Hokianga for Christmas. My dearly beloved’s parents, faux jumeaux brother and several other siblings. We are all pleased to see them for the first time in several months. My mother arrives tomorrow, my half-brother arrives from LA on Friday,
Johanna Thomas-Maude PhD Candidate in Development Studies, Massey University Massey University Immigration New Zealand’s recent announcement that all medical doctors would be included on the straight-to-residence pathway doesn’t quite give the full picture. In fact, “all” only includes those doctors who can have their medical
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Periodically, following an accident, we read of someone falling into a coma then coming out of it a year or so later. Imagine such a Rip Van Winkle situation now with someone who say fell into a coma in mid 2020 and waking today. When
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Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc. www.sportingshooters.nz In August 2021 the Office of the Auditor General issued a guide for “The setting and administration of fees and levies for cost recovery with four basic principles: 1. Equity 2. Efficiency 3. Justifiability 4. Transparency The guide further states
