Every time someone blithers about “resurrecting” an extinct species like the Tasmanian Tiger or the woolly mammoth, the first question we should ask is: why? The next, and probably most important, question should be: is it at all ethical? To paraphrase Jurassic Park, are these people too preoccupied with “could”
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Since our most recent comment on Michael Baker’s conflicts of interest, he has appeared in legacy media making further claims about boosters being needed to “help stem the tide of a fifth wave of the virus sweeping the country”. It
In Douglas Adams’ classic The Meaning of Liff, a glassel is defined as “A seaside pebble which was shiny and interesting when wet, and which is now a lump of rock, which children nevertheless insist on filing [sic] their suitcases with after the holiday.” Our house has more than its
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com It is an unpleasant truth that corruption in science has been present for decades. The editors of both the Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine contest to this, as does world-renowned epidemiologist, John Ioannidis. The need to back a
We do not live in a just world. In a just world, Josef Mengele wouldn’t have died of old age in Brazil. In a just world, Mao wouldn’t have lived to a ripe and comfortable old age, either. And in a just world, Anthony Fauci would be in
As I wrote recently, the draft NZ science curriculum is an embarrassing crock, blatantly designed by the Long Marchers to keep students ignorant and indoctrinated. Hold our soy lattes, say Australian education bureaucrats. The Australian school science curriculum lacks breadth and depth, and provides little guidance to teachers about content,
dailytelegraph.co.nz IN 2032, INDIA WILL NEED A BILLION TONNES OF COAL, PARTLY TO CHARGE EVS IN URBAN AREAS VIA POWER GENERATED BY THERMAL PLANTS. Five Indian cities, including the capital, New Delhi, consistently rank in the world’s top-10 worst air-polluted cities. Vehicular emissions are significant contributors; Delhi
The late Douglas Adams might well have been thinking of the mainstream media when he described sheep: “they were creatures who learned very little on their journey through life and would be startled to see the sun rising in the morning”. Your average Australian journalist has, in their less-than-30 years
David Gortler Dr David Gortler, a 2023 Brownstone Fellow, is a pharmacologist, pharmacist, research scientist and a former member of the FDA Senior Executive Leadership Team who served as senior advisor to the FDA Commissioner on matters of: FDA regulatory affairs, drug safety and FDA science policy. brownstone.org Celebrities
As BFD readers may recall, I’ve posted several times about the Lost Continent of Zealandia. What is now New Zealand and New Caledonia are the last highlands of Zealandia left poking above the Pacific waters. But there’s another leftover chunk of Gondwana that’s getting in on the
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com The World Health Organisation (WHO) is behind the implementation of amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR), the seriousness of which was recently ignorantly dismissed by Dr Michael Baker. New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science (NZDSOS) have written extensively about
Consensus is, as the saying goes, everyone agreeing on something that none of them really believe. Which is why consensus can too often lead to appallingly bad decision-making. It was the consensus of the Bush cabinet, for instance, that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, and that the violent
Allen Cheng Professor of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology lens.monash.edu These days, we don’t think much about being able to access a course of antibiotics to head off an infection. But that wasn’t always the case – antibiotics have been available for less than a century. Before that, patients
Logan Chipkin Logan Chipkin is the Managing Editor at Brownstone. He writes about economics, science, history, and freedom and is the author of the fantasy novel, Windfall. brownstone.org At Brownstone’s third annual conference and gala, aptly called ‘Rebuild Freedom’, hundreds of scholars, writers, researchers, fellows, and supporters came
In recent posts, I’ve explored humans’ ancient fascinations with putting dicks on things, and fart jokes. But there’s another widespread ancient practice that’s both weirder and a whole lot more painful than dicks and farts. Or maybe not, depending on what you do with both, I guess.
Sir Mark Oliphant has long been a darling of the Australian left. Not only was he a pioneering nuclear physicist, but he was also tacitly blackballed by the Americans and the Menzies government in the 50s (call it an early form of shadowbanning). Nothing was more calculated to endear someone
