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So Much for ‘Plant-Based Meat’

So Much for ‘Plant-Based Meat’

Once again, the legacy media are catching up to The BFD. For nearly three years, we’ve been cocking a journalistic eyebrow and puncturing the hype over “plant-based meat”. We’ve reported on the concerns of food scientists and environmentalists alike over what really are “Frankenfoods”. Newshub is finally catching

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Silence the Skeptics: LinkedIn Favours Green Schemes

kevin-mooney cfact.org Be careful about circulating scientific data that debunks the assumptions standing behind costly climate change policies. Otherwise, technology companies reserve the right to muzzle those dissenting views. That appears to be message LinkedIn has been sending to scientists and researchers who question the premise of regulations aimed

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The Natural Lifespan vs SADS

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Information Opinion Do New Zealand people need to understand mortality to be able to find some kind of base position to steady their minds, at this time of young people dropping dead everywhere? Reflections on mortality Is it not true that

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What the James Webb Hoax Really Shows

What the James Webb Hoax Really Shows

Scientific frauds and hoaxes can do a lot of damage and hold back progress for decades. But sometimes hoaxes can do science a great service, by exposing the frauds and fools. On one hand, the Piltdown Man hoax misled the progress of understand human evolution for decades. It also parlayed

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Is it Ethical to Create ‘Synthetic Embryos’?

Is it Ethical to Create ‘Synthetic Embryos’?

Michael Cook Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Israeli scientists have created the world’s first “synthetic embryos”. They used mouse stem cells to create embryos, nurtured them in an artificial womb and grew them for 8½ days – roughly the equivalent of three weeks

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New Zealand and the Covid Reality

New Zealand and the Covid Reality

Ramesh Thakur brownstone.org Ramesh Thakur, a former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, is emeritus professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University. In the first year of the pandemic, a team from Otago University in New Zealand (my former university) published an interesting study that provided

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The NZ High Court Passes the Buck

The NZ High Court Passes the Buck

Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Dr Guy Hatchard 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 PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. Information Opinion A Conspiracy of Silence

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CDC Ends Differentiation on Covid Vax Status

CDC Ends Differentiation on Covid Vax Status

Michael Senger brownstone.org Michael P Senger is an attorney and author of Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World. He has been researching the influence of the Chinese Communist Party on the world’s response to Covid-19 since March 2020 and previously authored “China’s Global Lockdown

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The Rise of Woke Archaeology

The Rise of Woke Archaeology

Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. The Trans Revolution is like the war in Ukraine. On some fronts the Ukrainian troops creep slowly forward; on others, they retreat. Similarly, in the UK, the trans juggernaut may have ground to a

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Be Alert NZ…

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Monkey Pox is coming and the vaccine is too… “Work continues between ourselves and Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand and Pharmac on securing a supply of Imvanex vaccine. That’s a vaccine that’s suitable for both smallpox and monkeypox

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Pregnant Males are a Scientific Fact

Thornton Blackmore One can only hope that future generations will look upon these times and ponder at the absurdities of the Western Cultural Revolution. Indeed, unlike the comparatively mundane class struggles of previous centuries, today’s Marxism seeks to dismantle not only class or even gender, but is attempting now

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The Scientific Evil and Good We Do Lives On

Dr. Jay Lehr cfact.org CFACT Senior Science Analyst Jay Lehr has authored more than 1,000 magazine and journal articles and 36 books. Jay’s new book A Hitchhikers Journey Through Climate Change written with Teri Ciccone is now available on Kindle and Amazon. Shakespeare said it in the

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You Should Not Make Safety Claims without Hard Evidence

You Should Not Make Safety Claims without Hard Evidence

Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Dr Guy Hatchard 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 PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. Information Opinion Some of the research

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Here’s What Science Says about Eating Salad before Carbs

Here’s What Science Says about Eating Salad before Carbs

Leonie Heilbronn University of Adelaide Professor Leonie Heilbronn is based at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), where she leads the Obesity and Metabolism laboratory. Her research is at the interface between basic and clinical science. Biochemist and author of the Glucose Revolution Jessie Inchauspé says tweaking

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Here Is the News

Here Is the News

Dave Witherow Dave Witherow, who was a long-time columnist with the Otago Daily Times, emigrated to New Zealand from Northern Ireland in 1971. He’s an author and scriptwriter and worked as a scientist for Fish and Game. Warning Satire Doctor Bloomfield, our Voice of Science, has announced he is

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