The Blind Leading the Blind
I suggest that King Charles and Anthony Albanese get together and write down all they know about climate science and energy. The back of an envelope should suffice!
Science
The NZ Pandemic Experience Offers a Lesson for the World
… but not the one our government is busy promoting. Ignoring the evidence amounts to a wilful act of misplaced faith which ignores the public good and will ultimately destabilise our nation.
Findings Show Eruption Is Behind Temperature Spike
Needless to say, there has been no mention in mainstream media of these interesting and important findings.
NZ’s Gene Technology Reform Carries Benefits and Risks
A truly independent regulator will be vital.
The Fake Papers in the Literature
Authorship, citations, even academic journal editors, are up for sale. It is unclear when paper mills began to operate at scale.
This Is a Case of Regulatory Failure
The policy formulation process has been extraordinarily poor. The case is not made scientifically, economically or environmentally in any underpinning policy documentation.
Whale Songs: For $4M You’d Think It’d Be On Spotify
Because it is Māori-related wasteful spending, newsrooms fall over themselves not to cover it. We get individual journalists contacting us about some of our stories saying they’d love to pick them up but their colleagues and editors would go berserk.
Asking the Right Questions About Trump’s Power
Let me give you a hint: exceptions are never decided in the White House.
The Deplorable Ethics of a Preemptive Pardon
It is deplorable for Biden to preemptively pardon Fauci on his last day in office, with so little known about the research NIAID funded in 2019 and voters so clearly eager to learn more. A pardon to preempt an investigation is not a pardon: it is obstruction.
It Is Time to Retire This
The government’s failures of transparency and oversight are why we are at this juncture today. RFK – should he overcome powerful opposition – may have the last word.