Simon Thornley Ananish Chaudhuri covidplanb.co.nz António Egas Moniz was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1949 for frontal lobotomy, a supposed cure for mental illness. Ultimately, however, Moniz and the Nobel committee were wrong. The operation did irreparable harm to over fifty thousand patients and the results were far
Freedom of Choice is what you got. Freedom from Choice is what you want. Devo From the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution, humans have fretted that the machines of our own inventions would also spell our extinction. First, weaving mills were going to make workers redundant. Then robots were going
Phillip W. Magness aier.org Phil Magness is a Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. He is the author of numerous works on economic history, taxation, economic inequality, the history of slavery, and education policy in the United States. In an explosive Senate hearing on March
AIER Staff aier.org Founded in 1933, the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) is one of the oldest and most respected nonpartisan economic research and advocacy organizations in the country. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, on the one-year anniversary of the lockdowns, invited back the scientists behind the Great Barrington
Marc Grey Despite being one of the safest types of energy generation, there is a common perception that nuclear power is dangerous. Probably the most common view about nuclear power danger is that a reactor may explode. In this article, we explore what type of explosions can occur and along
The notion of the “lost continent” of Lemuria was first put forward in the mid-19th century, attempting to explain the presence of lemur fossils in both Madagascar and India and nowhere in between. Zoologist Philip Sclater proposed that, like Atlantis, Lemuria had “sunk beneath the waves”, in what is now
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Another step in “an explosion of new techniques and ideas for studying early development” of human embryos came last week from Israel. Researchers there have successfully grown mouse embryos for 12 days, which is about half the animal’s natural gestation period. The rough equivalent for
Points to Note in Regard to Agricultural Livestock Emissions Ruminant Methane and Nitrous Oxide. The Climate Commission draft report is a missed opportunity to properly redress the numerous and significant mistakes that governments over many years have made about the impact of ruminant methane emissions. FARM recommends the Commission rewrites
Craig Rucker cfact.org Nary a day goes by without an outrageous claim about climate in the media. These over-the-top, outrageous assertions are not science. They are talking points spoon-fed by radical pressure groups to an all-too-compliant media. They are often made up on the spot. Just this week Marc
Megan Munsie The University of Melbourne Helen Abud Monash University Dr Megan Munsie is a scientist who has combined her extensive technical expertise in stem cell science with an interest and understanding of the complex ethical, social and regulatory issues associated with stem cells in research and in the clinic.
Dr. John Happs PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com “Men only care for science so far as they get a living by it and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. (1749-1832) Religious fanatics have often predicted an apocalypse from a displeased
The vicious ignorance of the identity politics-obsessed left was rarely better displayed than when it was announced that Israeli actor Gal Gadot had been picked to play Cleopatra in a new film. The tiny, cerebrally-challenged leftist puddle that is Twitter immediately erupted with its trademark brainless yapping. “Whitewashing!” they shrieked.
John Maunder sunlive.co.nz Rainfalls for the month of February have been recorded in Tauranga since 1898 (except for 1904, 1908, and 1909). The graph of February rainfalls in Tauranga shows the range of rainfalls from a high of 343 mm in 1936 to a low of only 7
John Maunder The role of weather and weather and weather forecasting in yachting has for many years been an integral part of many National Meteorological Services as well as commercial weather services. In New Zealand, the Meteorological Service has seconded one of the service’s weather forecasters for many international
