Kerri Duncan Kerri is an Adelaide-based freelance writer with a background in animal science and molecular biology. Always up for an investigative adventure, Kerri is addicted to exploring Earth’s wonders and finding as many waterfalls as possible. Her work in life sciences has deepened her appreciation of the natural
familyfirst.org.nz As the debate about drug legalisation continues in this country, yet more research shows the negative health outcomes from cannabis use, especially for young men. It is estimated that 30 per cent of cases of schizophrenia among men aged 21-30 might have been prevented by averting cannabis
For the last century, Jeremiahs have been predicting that the world will imminently run out of oil. So-called “Peak Oil” has enjoyed one of its perennial revivals in tandem with Climate Change hysteria, but the idea that we must immediately drop fossil fuels because they’re on the brink of
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com The World Health Organization (WHO) are hosting the 76th World Health Assembly in Geneva from 21 to 30 May 2023, during which time they are also celebrating their 75th anniversary. Three main issues are on the agenda this year, all of
If we never ate the foods that were supposedly going to kill us, we’d never eat anything but mung beans and water. Except, wait: water toxemia is a thing, and mung beans not only interact with certain medications, but are at higher risk of carrying harmful bacteria. Guess we
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com The Covid-19 mRNA vaccines administered to billions of people across the world have raised multiple concerns, including identification of poor manufacturing practices. It is hardly surprising, then, that a group of experienced geneticists have identified significant DNA contamination in both Pfizer
If anyone was likely to ruin the solemnity and dignity of King Charles’ coronation, it wasn’t his errant son. Harry quietly, without fuss, took his assigned place in the Abbey as a non-working royal and that was that. But it was hard to keep a straight face throughout the
brownstone.org A new analysis finds that Prozac (generic name fluoxetine) is unsafe and ineffective for treating depression in children and adolescents. Regulatory documents show that trial participants attempted suicide after taking fluoxetine, but these events were excluded from the final journal publication. I notified the journal of the new
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com The details of her untimely death were written up as a case history and published in J Clin Immunol in January 2022. study-NZ-case-Fulminating-Necrotising-Eosinophilic-Myocarditis-Jan-2022Download The 57-year-old woman of Chinese descent died in July 2021 shortly after receiving her first Pfizer vaccine. She
brownstone.org For the past half-century or more, manufactured scares have been a recurrent part of life. Every year a very small number of people are killed (usually only one) or injured by bears here in Hokkaido, Japan. However, the news media invariably plays up these incidents. As a result,
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com National Citizens Inquiry: A Private Tribunal of Conscience The world is well overdue for explanation and restitution of grievous harms perpetrated in the name of the global pandemic response. With continued lies and cover-ups by their governments, the people are organising
Rav Arora Rav Arora is an independent journalist based in Vancouver, Canada. Jayanta Bhattacharya Jay Bhattacharya is a physician, epidemiologist and health economist. He is Professor at Stanford Medical School, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research, a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy
For all that the left are assiduously trying to muddy the waters, the science and etymology of sex and gender are really very simple. “Sex” and “gender” are the same thing — and they’re binary. And that’s it. Anyone who tries to claim otherwise is either a liar, an
What, exactly, is Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology trying to hide? That the BOM is indeed trying to cover up something is the inescapable conclusion from its relentless secrecy and determined obfuscation. For three years, the BOM fought scientist Dr John Abbott tooth and nail over an FOI request to
Academia can be a pretty sweet gig. Especially if you’re canny enough to land yourself a job in an entirely made-up discipline. “Fat studies”, for instance. Or “Decision Sciences”. Let alone “astrobiologist”. OK, maybe I’m being a little bit harsh, but given that the sum total of planets
I have a love-hate relationship with Richard Dawkins. On the one hand, I often find his pretensions to philosophy ill-informed and annoying. I mean, he openly professed ignorance of epistemology, after writing a book on what was, in fact, epistemology (The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really
