Greg Dawes commonroomnz.com Greg Dawes has published extensively on relations between science and religion. He teaches philosophy at the University of Otago. This article was first published on The Common Room As a philosopher, I’ve been following closely the debate regarding the ‘refreshed’ science curriculum in New Zealand
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com “We need much more investment in vaccine safety science.” “We have a very wobbly health professional front line.” “A lot of the concern is not misinformation.” Covid-19 – the ‘pandemic’ and the injection – has shone a light on one of the
Evangeline Mantzioris Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Accredited Practising Dietitian, University of South Australia The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is the specialised cancer agency of the World Health Organization, has declared aspartame may be a possible carcinogenic hazard to humans. Another branch of the
Benjamin Seevers Benjamin Seevers is a Mises Institute Fellow and holds a BA in economics from Grove City College. He will begin his PhD in economics at West Virginia University in fall 2023. His research interests include private governance, public policy, and libertarian ethics. fee.org Netflix’s new hit
Cat Williams particle.scitech.org.au They save our animals from extinction but ‘safe havens’ also have a major drawback. The last remnant populations of woylie – a critically endangered native mammal – remain in southwest Western Australia. There are other woylie populations across Australia. However, they’re all in conservation areas
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
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
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
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
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
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
