Dr Martin Lally Director, Capital Financial Consultants Ltd covidplanb.co.nz Professor Shaun Hendy is another prominent adviser to the New Zealand government on covid-19 issues. Like Professor Baker, he combines frequent commentary via popular media in support of lockdowns with papers written (with numerous co-authors) in the academic style.
covidplanb.co.nz We do not hold this type of modelling in high regard. First of all, it is myopically focused on reducing harm from Covid-19. It is hard to understand the utility of presenting such results without context. There is no mention that the average age of death of
covidplanb.co.nz There’s been some hysterical modellers claiming that even with high rates of Pfizer vaccination, there will still be a large number of deaths. Ironically, their models have opened the way in New Zealand to questioning the value of Covid vaccines. We don’t need notoriously unreliable
If we’re to believe the Greens and Te Paati Maori, the Maori were and are environmental saints, living in perfect harmony with their environment. It’s only since the wicked Pakeha showed up that all the environmental destruction and species extinction started. Which is even more ludicrous than fanciful
AJ Mitchell Australian National University Born and raised in Northern Ireland, AJ Mitchell attended Queen’s University Belfast as an undergraduate studying Mathematics and Physics. Following an internship at ETH Zurich, He decided to pursue a career in academic research. The Australian government has just declared an historic defence agreement
We’re all familiar with Laika the dog and Ham the chimp as pioneering animal astronauts, but how many of us have heard of the Moon Tortoises? In fact, two Russian tortoises, imaginatively named “22” and “37”, were the first Earth creatures to orbit the Moon, four months before Apollo
Osman Shabir University of Sheffield Osman Shabir studys neurovascular function in neurodegenerative and cerebrovascular diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease/vascular dementia & cardiovascular disease (atherosclerosis). He uses preclinical models of human disease to study neurophysiology, neuropathology & neuroinflammation in these models to gain a better understanding of disease mechanisms
The left-media elite stroke their egos that they “follow the science” and that, consequently, anyone who disagrees with them is a “denialist”. Yet, on certain essential facts, the left are the world’s great denialists. One such fact is the correlation between race and average IQ scores. Many on the
Graham J Noble libertynation.com Chief Political Correspondent & Satirist at LibertyNation.com. Raised and inspired by his father, a World War II veteran, Graham learned early in life how to laugh and be a gentleman. After attending college, he decided to join the British Army, where he served for
Contrary to the smug media narrative, the main drag on uptake of Covid vaccines are not “anti-vaxxers”, but the “vaccine hesitant”. People who are entirely comfortable with existing, proven vaccines, from polio to tetanus to the annual flu vax, but concerned about the rush to market and novel mechanism of
It’s not for nothing that the Royal Society’s motto is Nullius in Verba. “Take no one’s word for it.” Sadly, the Society itself rarely lives up to that motto any more, having long ago traded scepticism for right-on gullibility. Especially when it comes to climate change. Yet
covidplanb.co.nz Many areas of the world are now in a race to achieve high coverage of covid-19 vaccination. Some commentators in New Zealand are now criticising the government for not rolling out fast enough. Given the high efficacy of many vaccines, this seems like a sensible strategy, but
Jim Goad wrote that the left have their heads “so far up their own asses with the idea that they are unimpeachably good, I suspect they may all soon suffocate to death”. As he admitted though, that was probably just so much wishful thinking. After all, Paddy Gower is somehow
Siouxsie Wiles University of Auckland Dr Siouxsie Wiles is an Associate Professor at the University of Auckland. She studied medical microbiology at the University of Edinburgh, followed by a PhD in microbiology at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Oxford and Napier University in Edinburgh. While we’re all
