AUTHOR
Guy Hatchard
441 ARTICLES
Guy Hatchard PhD is a statistician and former senior manager at Genetic ID, a global food safety testing and certification laboratory. Guy's book 'Your DNA Diet' is available on Amazon.com.
Gene edited synthetic products are overwhelming daily life
Forty years ago the first varieties of genetically modified crops were planted in open fields in the US. Ever since there has been a sustained...
A dirty secret exposed: Cosmetics and women’s cancer risk
A study published in Nature Medicine entitled “Biological aging and generational shifts in early-onset cancer risk" examined the health profiles of 154,169 young adults in the...
We are crossing the final frontier
A paper published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry on July 31 2026 is entitled "Autism spectrum disorder trends for children...
Red Flag: NZ mortality up in 2026
The pandemic health legacy that is starting to bite. The year ended June 2026 figures for births and deaths have just been released by StatsNZ. Compared...
A new approach to the November election
On August 6, Chris Bishop the NZ Attorney General gave a speech at the Law Society in which he reasserted ‘Parliament’s role as the...
Alert: A convergence of risk to mental and physical health is occurring as a range of modern technologies are implemented
In this article we will look at the different ways a range of recently introduced technology is impacting our body and mind creating a...
An unwanted future is taking shape as biotechnology experimentation proliferates
The media needs to cover new research findings Regular readers will be aware that for the last five years we have been warning of serious...
High risk biotechnology experimentation is gathering pace
Much loved Kiwi actor Sam Neill has died suddenly. In March 2023 Neill announced he had been diagnosed with Stage 3 angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (a rare...
The Long Read: There is already enough evidence to design a health policy that works
On the 25th January 2026, two men stepped off an arriving plane at Detroit Metropolitan Airport en route from the Congo carrying a black...
How does DNA actually work?
You have probably heard computer analogies used to explain how DNA works. Computers have properties that are fixed by precise programming and hardware. In these...
