When cultural beliefs are given parity with science, it jeopardizes public trust in scientific institutions and can foster misinformation, especially in areas such as public health, where the stakes are especially high.
The average number of sunshine hours in New Zealand is above 2,000 per year. In the United Kingdom, it averages around 1,350.
Industrialised high-tech society is actually saving species.
The new research claims to show that the thalamus is activated when a person begins to pay close attention to external stimuli.
Anything rather than let an industry in Tasmania thrive,
Anybody for informed consent? The two words go hand in hand – informed and consent. It doesn’t do any good to be informed but not have consent.
Given that NZ First Minister Casey Costello is currently catching flak for reminding Health New Zealand that, “Only women and people of the female sex can get pregnant and birth a child no matter how they identify,” the scientists’ analysis could hardly be more timely.
It is difficult to see how the idea that there is a climate ‘emergency’ can continue to be taken seriously given that it lacks any substantial or convincing proof.
