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Our Lefties Agree with Science When Science Agrees with Them

Our Lefties Agree with Science When Science Agrees with Them

Dave Pellowe davepellowe.com Jane Caro – novelist & social commentator – typed a piece yesterday titled “Our Leaders Agree With Science When Science Agrees With Them“. In it, she gives credit to the conservatives (among other national and state leaders) who have heeded the doomsday predictions of discredited pandemic models and

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The Evidence Mounts Against Lockdowns

The Evidence Mounts Against Lockdowns

Along with other BFD writers, I have for the past week raised the question of whether New Zealand’s draconian lockdowns had actually achieved anything significant. The conclusion even then was: no. Jacinda Ardern has trashed and burned New Zealand’s economy for nothing. As more and more data becomes

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Criticism of the Lockdown

Criticism of the Lockdown

Daphna Whitmore rdln.wordpress.com Since I wrote Corona fevers and the madness of models, criticising the lockdown in New Zealand, there have been many comments and some objections to the article. Some of these have been discussed in other forums but here I will try to respond to a

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Ardern and Bloomfield Should Never Have Imposed Lockdown

Ardern and Bloomfield Should Never Have Imposed Lockdown

Alex Davis theemperorsrobes.blogspot.com On March 17th, eight days before New Zealand entered lockdown, Professor John Ioannidis, one of the world’s most cited medical researchers, published an article warning that the world was rushing into a series of panic-stricken responses to COVID-19 on the basis of data that

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Six Questions for Neil Ferguson

Six Questions for Neil Ferguson

UK television and radio media are just as left-wing as they are in New Zealand. The Spectator highlights two interviews, each carried out very differently, on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. Health Secretary Matt Hancock, of the Conservative party, got a roasting – as one would expect. The National Party,

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Test, Test, Test? Well Here’s What You Can Expect

Test, Test, Test? Well Here’s What You Can Expect

On March 4th this year, a buddy of mine returned from the UK to live in New Zealand. He had employment set up in Queenstown working in the aviation industry with tourists and locals alike. When he arrived, he had a bit of a cold and hadn’t been able

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Oh, Noes! The Climate Models May Have an Error

Oh, Noes! The Climate Models May Have an Error

Let’s suppose that CO2 actually does control the average global temperature. It would thus be critical that the whole carbon cycle was extremely well understood in order for climate models to be accurate in their prediction of how mankind’s puny CO2 outputs are going to affect the future

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Coronavirus Weekly: Expert Analysis from the Conversation Global Network

Coronavirus Weekly: Expert Analysis from the Conversation Global Network

Ina Skosana The Conversation The global crisis triggered by the spread of the new coronavirus disease, COVID-19, continues to take fresh and dramatic turns, causing havoc in dozens of countries around the world. Stock markets remain volatile, having recording historic collapses in share prices. As the disease continued to spread

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Covid-19 From Its First Appearance in 2012 with a 50%+ Fatality Rate

Covid-19 From Its First Appearance in 2012 with a 50%+ Fatality Rate

Covid-19 is wreaking fear and havoc around the globe but very little is said about its colourful history, which includes the suspected murder of a Canadian scientist and its alleged theft in Canada by Chinese scientists. The new Coronavirus first appeared in 2012 in Saudi Arabia when an unknown virus

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Best Intentions Cannot Control Biological Weapons of Mass Destruction

Best Intentions Cannot Control Biological Weapons of Mass Destruction

Operation Paperclip was the American mission to smuggle Nazi war criminals out of Europe after WWII and take 88 brilliant Third Reich scientific minds to America to drive technological advancement in rocketry, space search and biological weaponry. Writer Annie Jacobsen wrote about that mission, and a dozen or so of

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The BFD Nightcap: United Nations Reports FAIL Science Test

The BFD Nightcap: United Nations Reports FAIL Science Test

Cormann admits to relying on discredited reports Senator Malcolm Roberts received confirmation today that the Government relies on discredited reports from the United Nations as a basis for its climate policies. Independent scientists and its own authors have condemned this UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. Senator Roberts

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A Biologist Demolishes Unscientific Transgender Nonsense

A Biologist Demolishes Unscientific Transgender Nonsense

I don’t have much time for Jerry Coyne as a “philosopher”, in which role he rarely rises above a Dawkins-esque smugness. But, credit where it’s due: also like Dawkins, as a biologist he knows his stuff and refuses to parrot politically-correct nostrums if they are obvious scientific bullshit.

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New Fusion Hope, but Don’t Hold Your Breath

New Fusion Hope, but Don’t Hold Your Breath

For as long as I can remember, fusion power has been “tantalisingly close”, with the “breakthrough” due at any moment and practically limitless, clean power “just around the corner”. I’m not admitting how many spins I’ve notched up around the Sun, but let me just say that I

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