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Of Viruses and Carbon Emissions

Of Viruses and Carbon Emissions

How long before “lockdowns because of COVID” become “lockdowns because of climate”? Sound like a crazy conspiracy theory? Sure, it does. But then, just a couple of years ago, so did lockdowns and vaccine passports. If there’s one thing recent history should have taught us, it’s to never

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There’s ‘Wrong’, and Then There’s ‘Expert Advice’

There’s ‘Wrong’, and Then There’s ‘Expert Advice’

An “expert”, it is said, is someone who is able to explain at great length why, in hindsight, they were completely wrong. Since the beginning of the Wuhan pandemic, a great many experts have been wrong about a great many things. So why on earth are we still listening to

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Informed Consent for Medical Procedures Is a Basic Human Right

Informed Consent for Medical Procedures Is a Basic Human Right

Taylor Pace mises.org Government-mandated vaccine passports are a denial of basic human rights. Unlike the ambiguity surrounding abortion, vaccines undoubtedly affect only the individual being injected and therefore should be that person’s choice. Informed consent has historically been a moral principle of the medical field. No cognizant patient

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‘Experts’ Ramp up the Fear over Freedom

‘Experts’ Ramp up the Fear over Freedom

Australian PM, Scott Morrison, is pushing hard on the federal government’s roadmap to “re-open Australia”, be done with lockdowns and border closures, and “learn to live with the virus”. Morrison’s plan is eminently sensible and is clearly based on the real-world experience of places like Britain and Florida.

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In Search of the Lost Heisenberg Cubes

In Search of the Lost Heisenberg Cubes

It sounds like something from a Marvel movie: mysterious, lost “Heisenberg cubes” of Nazi-era science. But Heisenberg cubes are very real — they were part of the Nazis’ race to build an atomic weapon. Nearly all were lost in the chaos of the fall of the Third Reich, but scientists hope

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Protocol for Re-Opening New Zealand Society

covidplanb.co.nz Introduction 18 months on from the world’s fearful response to the arrival of SARS-CoV-2, we provide an alternative to New Zealand’s elimination strategy to one of ‘living with covid-19’. We are now back in level four lockdown indefinitely with escalating PCR positive ‘cases’. We urgently

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The IPCC’s Deliberate CO2 Deception

The IPCC’s Deliberate CO2 Deception

David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. Many of my disagreements with the IPCC AR6 science Summary for Policy Makers (SPM) are just that, disagreements. I think their reasoning is faulty but at least I understand

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Blast From the COVID Past Shows How Far We’ve Fallen

Blast From the COVID Past Shows How Far We’ve Fallen

In his The Shape of Things to Come, H G Wells describes “the curious sense of unconsciousness” of the calamity that was about to unfold in the summer of 1914. “The weather that August was exceptionally fine”, and countless Europeans holidayed with no notion that within a scant few years

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Science or Pseudo Science?

Science or Pseudo Science?

Christopher Ruthe I was convenor of the Mental Health Review Tribunal for 13 years, (20 of my decisions are in the NZ law reports). I also sat on the Weathertight Homes Tribunal. I am a polymath with a strong interest in the philosophical underpinnings of society – a bit of a

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Auckland Lockdown Unlikely to End Next Week

Auckland Lockdown Unlikely to End Next Week

A significant part of the world’s population today is living with high levels of fear. Fear of death by Covid-19. Confronted by stories of hundreds of new “cases”, deaths and horrifyingly mutated variants that will eventually sneak in and get them, average people are losing the will to live.

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