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New Alzheimer’s Drug: What You Need to Know
Eleftheria Kodosaki Research Associate in Neuroimmunology Cardiff University American pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly announced last week that it had seen encouraging clinical trial results of its new Alzheimer’s medication. According to the company, their experimental drug, donanemab, was shown in a late-stage trial to slow cognitive decline by
View from Your Window
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The Hallmark of Dead Science
Rav Arora Rav Arora is an independent journalist based in Vancouver, Canada. Jayanta Bhattacharya Jay Bhattacharya is a physician, epidemiologist and health economist. He is Professor at Stanford Medical School, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research, a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy
What Is Life like in Your Country?
Here at The BFD we currently have writers based in New Zealand, Australia, Israel, Hong Kong and the UK but we have readers from many other countries. This article is a shout out to our readers in other countries encouraging them to send us an article telling us what life
Unrealistic Idealism
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A British animal protection outfit PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has begun an electronic billboard campaign showing a smiling butcher holding up a dead cat then the image changes to show the butcher holding up a fish. The message over this asserts
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Trying to Hide True Cost of ‘Net Zero’ Hammers Budget
The Albanese government’s demented climate policies are helping drive the cost of living for Australians through the roof. So, the government is throwing money back at Australians as “cost of living relief”. To pay for the “relief”, they’re jacking up taxes on energy, which will… You get the
Do a Better Job!
Alwyn Poole alwynpoole.substack.com alwyn.poole@gmail.com Education is in genuine crisis in New Zealand and the statistics are now widely known. Jan Tinetti, the latest Minister of Education, is currently flapping around trying to say that she did not manipulate attendance data releases to coincide with a
The Minister of Education Is in the Wrong Job
So, Jan Tinetti, the latest iteration of a Minister of Education, turned up for an interview with Ryan Bridge. The education system is said to be in “a crisis of achievement and a crisis of attendance”. The current structure is not delivering the results we need as parents, as employers,
When the Greens Go to War
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is the Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. The Green Party should be very high in the opinion polls right now. Historically, when Labour is low in the polls the Greens tend
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