George Ford Smith George Ford Smith is a former mainframe and PC programmer and technology instructor, the author of eight books including a novel about a renegade Fed chairman (Flight of the Barbarous Relic) and a nonfiction book on how money became an instrument of theft (The Jolly Roger Dollar)
Bridgette Semple Bridgette has an established national and international reputation for excellence in neurotrauma research. Based in the Department of Neuroscience at Monash University’s School of Translational Medicine, she led the productive Paediatric Neurotrauma Group between 2018 and 2024, before scaling back the experimental work to allow for other
Gary Moller Summary for busy people * The news that there’s been a disturbing rise in cancer fatalities among young people in the United States should be of great concern for New Zealand. * Is this connected to a widely used and contentious substance? Although New Zealand’s experts appear not
Adam Andrzejewski Topline: EcoHealth Alliance — the nonprofit that sent taxpayer funds to the Wuhan lab researching bat coronaviruses before the pandemic — has received $94.3 million from the U.S. government since 2008, according to Fox News. The Department of Health and Human Services suspended funding to EcoHealth this May.
Hamish Wilson, University of Otago and John Douglas Dunbar, University of Otago The emergence of Long Covid as a mysterious new illness has refocused attention on the incapacitating nature of persistent fatigue. Around the world, this unexpected outcome of the pandemic is now a significant health issue causing considerable personal
Whenever an eco-alarmist tries to scare you, they almost always employ one or both of two gambits: ‘x amount per year’ and ‘on record’. With regard to the first, it always sounds scary, but what does it actually mean? One we’re all familiar with is the Amazon rainforest: at
Victor Gambarini, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Marine plastic pollution is a massive environmental issue, with a plastic smog of an estimated 170 trillion particles afloat in the world’s oceans. This highlights how urgently we need to develop strategies to mitigate this environmental crisis. We know some microbes
Gabriella Hoffman Gabriella Hoffman is a Media Strategist and Award-Winning Outdoor Writer. She hosts the “District of Conservation” podcast and CFACT’s original YouTube series “Conservation Nation.” Learn more about her work at www.gabriellahoffman.com. Despite pledging fealty to net-zero climate goals, California has many energy and environmental problems
NZDSOS An Injection of Truth was a town hall event held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on 17 June 2024. An all-star cast of eight scientists, doctors and a lawyer, each spoke of their personal experiences and professional knowledge to a large audience with online streaming also available. A replay of
Maryanne Demasi Maryanne Demasi, 2023 Brownstone Fellow, is an investigative medical reporter with a PhD in rheumatology, who writes for online media and top tiered medical journals. Fresh off the back of Anthony Fauci and his former agency being accused of lying to lawmakers and covering up the origins of
Sally Q Davies Sally has a background in writing for performance. When not at her desk, her hobbies include knitting, gardening, and going to the cinema. A Sunday roast, prawns on the barbie, a Bunnings sausage sizzle. All Aussie staples, and for many of us, it’s difficult to imagine
Wanjiru Njoya Mises Wire Those who have (wisely) not been following the “decolonization” debate may be surprised to learn that decolonizers characterize reason and rationality as cultural constructs that ought to be rejected, as these are said to be “based upon epistemological assumptions deeply rooted in the Western philosophical tradition”
NZDSOS Recently we posted on the global vaccine industry’s attempt to downplay serious adverse events with its first safety study following the C-19 gene modifying injections. Remember, the ones which actually increase cases, and produce variants, and whose approval trial had more people die in the treatment group, and
Naomi Cahn, University of Virginia; Bridget J. Crawford, Pace University , and Emily Gold Waldman, Pace University Menopause used to be a taboo topic in many quarters. Now, it’s frequently in the news. In March 2024, the White House announced an initiative to “Galvanize New Research on Women’s Midlife
If we’re to believe the government and the mainstream media, disinformation — the dissemination of intentionally false information to deliberately confuse or mislead — is an existential threat to our democracy. Which is odd, because some of the most egregious disinformation is disseminated by governments and mainstream media. For some governments
