Michael Musker University of South Australia theconversation.com Ketamine might be better known as a recreational drug or anaesthetic. But there’s growing evidence for its use for people with hard-to-treat depression. An Australasian study out today showed some positive results for people with treatment-resistant depression when they had ketamine
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Pfizer Placebos? A Danish research study published in the March 2023 European Journal of Clinical Investigation, “Batch-dependent safety of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 vaccine”, has led to reports that some Pfizer batches may in fact be “placebos”. The findings appear to
Deniz Özkundakci University of Waikato theconversation.com The level of microplastic pollution in New Zealand lakes is comparable with those in the US or Europe, despite much lower population densities, according to our global analysis of plastic pollution in freshwater lakes and reservoirs. Globally, our results show two types of
Having a late read of the July 2nd Sunday Star Times, I came across an article written by a young lady by the name of Gabrielle McCullough. I’ll refrain from calling her a journalist in the true sense of the word as reflective of the so-called profession she is
Space, as Douglas Adams said, “is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is.” To get some idea of just how big, NASA’s Voyager 1 was launched nearly 50 years ago. It’s now the fastest-moving, most distant object humans have ever
The relics business can be a weird one. The fad for relics of Christian saints led to the preservation of the supposed remains of everything from Jesus’ foreskin and Mary’s breast milk, to the tongue and jaw of St. Anthony. Lest you think that’s all just religious nuttiness,
Dr Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior
I recently reported how a scientist who spent 100 days in an underwater habitat came out of the experience “10 years younger”. That is, certain biological changes, particularly in his chromosomes, effectively reversed his biological clock. But, if living under the sea might extend your life, living in space may
Robert Kogon Robert Kogon is a pen name for a widely-published financial journalist, a translator, and researcher working in Europe. brownstone.org German scientists have uncovered startling evidence that a substantial portion of the batches of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine deployed in the European Union may in fact have consisted
For the last few years, we’ve been constantly hectored to ‘Follow The Science™’. Purely coincidentally, no doubt, The Science™ has an uncanny habit of dovetailing exactly with whatever the latest lefty intellectual fad might be. That’s because The Science™ is not science. But even science ain’t what
Sure, the idea of a space elevator just sounds too stupid to be true. But then, people once said the same thing about satellites. When Arthur C Clarke first proposed the idea of communications satellites, newspapers smirked and asked what would hold them up. As it happens, ol’ Arfur was
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com “We’re never going to comply our way out of tyranny… You can only speak up.” Dr Cindy de Villiers, GP During the Covid pandemic, New Zealand was ushered into a front-row seat where the feature presentation starred fear and uncertainty.
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com “It is never appropriate to force a population to have an experimental medical procedure.” ~Dr Alison Goodwin, GP A good doctor, a moral doctor, a doctor invested in upholding their professional ethics of First Do No Harm would tell you both
As the Labour government promises to throw yet more buckets of cash at New Zealand’s failing universities, no one appears to be giving much thought to whether or not it would be better to simply let them fail. Or, failing that, actively putting them out of their misery. Because
Debbie Lerman Debbie Lerman, 2023 Brownstone Fellow, has a degree in English from Harvard. She is a retired science writer and a practicing artist in Philadelphia, PA. brownstone.org Scandalous incompetence. Profound stupidity. Astounding errors. This is how many analysts – including Dr. Vinay Prasad, Dr. Scott Atlas, and popular Substack
Joanne Nova A prize-winning science graduate in molecular biology. She has given keynotes about the medical revolution, gene technology and aging at conferences. She hosted a children’s TV series on Channel Nine, and has done over 200 radio interviews, many on the Australian ABC. She was formerly an associate
