You would think that years and years of testing would be required before something like this is ever allowed to be released. But in our day and age, new technologies are often rushed to market as rapidly as possible.
They’ve ignored what they did, or, in many cases, been rewarded for it. The people who haven’t been rewarded? The children whose lives they destroyed. That’s the real legacy of Covid.
This globally important case involves much more than 'just' Gates. The facts, the background, the drama, the media, the fact checkers, and the lawyer who is currently imprisoned.
Taken as a whole, the commission’s positions, which we watched unfold live, appear to amount to a pre-determined and completely inadequate outcome.
It is sensible to await the consideration of the Royal Commission before taking steps which will enshrine automatic approvals and emergency use of gene technology in NZ law.
Early results from the study suggest that in some cases, fungicide use could be reduced by up to 80 per cent.
The editors are confirming their adherence to a political ideology rather than scientific excellence. They confirm that they are more interested in prioritising the work of selected groups and not in whether their research is valuable or not.
So the business of science is to find out knowledge. But scientific fact can never be just fact, brute fact. It isn’t fact unless it’s true and it isn’t true unless it is both correctly observed and truthfully reported.
Behind the theatre of the royal commission hearings there is a lesson to be learned. Biotechnology experimentation is not saving lives, it is taking them. So far it seems the commission is not capable of entertaining this central lesson of the pandemic.
Well, since I write for the Good Oil that by definition makes me cool, even if I might not tick any of the boxes. And yes, since you read the Good Oil, you are also, by definition, cool.
Unproven hypotheses that are put forward as ‘truth’ or ‘scientific fact’, simply because powerful forces have decided to put them in that position, really have no more scientific validity than matauranga Māori.
Colossal said it was already investing in New Zealand’s biotechnology sector and planned to develop local labs, build biobanks, create conservation action plans, and support Ngāi Tahu-led expeditions to collect and protect native species.
