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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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A Farewell to Dr Bloomfield

A Farewell to Dr Bloomfield

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Information Opinion So, a medical doctor who took the Hippocratic Oath, to First Do No Harm, is proud of the ‘vaccination effort?’ Proud of the data mangling his crew produced, more like. How inevitable and yet disingenuous and misleading, to refer

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Don’t You Just Love Science?

Don’t You Just Love Science?

Anyone who’s prone to babbling about “IFL Science!” and spouting idiotic memes like, “The overwhelming majority of scientists…” could really do with a rudimentary education in the history of science. Some really bad ideas have been promulgated as “settled science”, and some really appalling people have been prominent scientists.

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Hospital Gets It All Wrong

Hospital Gets It All Wrong

Information Opinion One might think that the people who run a hospital, where clever people usually work, might at least make an attempt to get their ‘information’ straight. But no, it seems that whoever runs Queenstown’s Lakes District Hospital cares not one jot about the accuracy of information. Whether

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Great Barrier Reef Feeling Much Better

It turns out that reports of the death of the Great Barrier Reef were greatly exaggerated. Not only is the Reef very much not dead, it’s just hit record coral cover. Now, it should be borne in mind that “on record” means, in this case, “in the last four

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Foil Hats, Left and Right

Foil Hats, Left and Right

One of the most influential books on my teenage mind was Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea’s Illuminatus! (I’m in good company, as it happens: its mind-bogglingly psychedelic science-fiction satire was likewise a major influence on Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, aka The JAMs/The KLF.) Why did

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Why Are Some Meteors Bright Green?

Jack Baggaley University of Canterbury Jack Baggaley is a Professor of Emeritus Physics and Astronomy, at University of Canterbury. New Zealand may seem to be under meteor bombardment at the moment. After a huge meteor exploded above the sea near Wellington on July 7, creating a sonic boom that could

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Has COVID-19 Killed Your Sense of Smell?

Adilah Ahmad particle.scitech.org.au Adilah is an avid science lover, feline fanatic, and photography enthusiast. She has a degree in Human Anatomy and Physiology and is currently pursuing a PhD. When she’s not at work or having overpriced smashed avo at a cafe, you can find her

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Chief Science Denier – Al Gore

Chief Science Denier – Al Gore

Peter Murphy cfact.org Peter Murphy is Senior Fellow at CFACT. He has researched and advocated for a variety of policy issues, including education reform and fiscal policy, both in the non-profit sector and in government in the administration of former New York Governor George Pataki. Former Vice President Albert

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Science Is Much More Than Just Stargazing

Science Is Much More Than Just Stargazing

In his The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan emphasises that science is not an institution or a mere collection of facts. Science is a way of thinking. Central to that way of thinking is scepticism and critical thinking, as opposed to superstition and dogma. Sagan would be turning in his grave

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Anti Vaccine Sentiment and Medical Ethics

Anti Vaccine Sentiment and Medical Ethics

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com The phrase “anti vaccine” has become synonymous with all manner of wrongdoing. Yet in today’s political climate many who have developed vaccines, prescribed and administered vaccines, taught vaccine providers and coordinated vaccine programs are now accused of anti vaccine sentiment.

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FDA Puts Warning on Puberty Blockers

FDA Puts Warning on Puberty Blockers

familyfirst.org.nz MEDIA RELEASE In a significant development, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the US has this month issued a warning label about the risk of puberty blockers after six minors (ages 5-12) experienced severe symptoms. The minors, who were all biologically female, suffered from symptoms of

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Monkeypox Mainly Affects Gay Men

Monkeypox Mainly Affects Gay Men

Douglas Blair PA Pundits – International Douglas Blair is a news producer for the Daily Signal. He is the co-host of the Daily Signal Podcast at The Heritage Foundation. http://www.heritage.org/ Monkeypox seemingly sprung out of nowhere to infect large swathes of the globe, replacing Covid-19 as the malady

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