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Budget, May 2025: New Zealand’s public health crisis cannot be arrested by prescribing vast quantities of drugs and vaccines.

J. R. Bruning -

In May 2025 the New Zealand budget will be released. I’ve asked the question, what is the Hon Minister Shane Reti doing to address a...

Judith Collins’ new Gene Technology Bill – A sticky, unconstitutional mess?

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The Hon Judith Collins the Attorney General’s Gene Technology Bill has just been published. Collins claims that the Bill will: ‘create an authorisation framework to...

Doubtful new EPA board can stem NZEPA’s backsliding

J. R. Bruning -

The latest New Zealand Environmental Protection Authority (NZEPA) Board are tasked with the oversight of a regulatory institution that has been backsliding for decades. Overlapping...

Is our food safety authority failing the fairness and impartiality test?

J. R. Bruning -

Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) have held two consultations to gauge public opinion on gene edited ‘new breeding techniques (NBT) organisms, but have...

Fluoride – is risk assessment up to scratch?

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Fluoridation of drinking water is mired in controversy, and many people wonder why, as our biggest cities, Wellington and Auckland, have been fluoridated since...

Agricultural and horticultural products regulatory review: Is the review set up to fail?

J. R. Bruning -

The Agricultural and horticultural products regulatory review is open for comment until 8 September 2024. The review will focus on the approval path for...

The RBNZ CBDC survey – an artifact constructed to deny dissent

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I’ve just had a look through the Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s (RBNZ) online survey on ‘Digital Cash’ (their euphemism for central bank digital...

Don’t be misled – Judging the risk from Central Bank Digital Currencies in isolation is a rookie mistake.

J. R. Bruning -

New Zealand’s Central bank, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) have opened a consultation on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). The consultation closes July...

Programmed failure: are our GP clinics set up to fail?

J. R. Bruning -

It’s a week where junior doctors are on strike, and strike they should. But it’s bigger that. Should you care if your local doctors’...

You can make science say whatever you want it to say

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Technical and scientific information is like any resource. It can be used for special purposes, it can be shaped and moulded to ensure an outcome...

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