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Guy Hatchard

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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.




Guy Hatchard: It’s not unusual

An article in today’s Stuff newspaper reports a mass casualty situation at hospital EDs and then sets out to tell us ‘it is not unusual’ (???). Here...

The NZ First intention to reach a compromise on the terms of the Gene Technology Bill would be a grave mistake

The NZ First intention to reach a compromise on the terms of the Gene Technology Bill would be a grave mistake. Associate Minister for Agriculture...

Major Study: mRNA vaccines multiply the incidence of cancer

A large cohort study conducted in Italy and published in the Journal of Experimental and Clinical Sciences is entitled “COVID-19 vaccination, all-cause mortality, and...

A Long Essential Read: On the brink of disaster—A watershed moment

If enacted, the Gene Technology Bill will take us further away from our Kiwi foundational principles and our cultural heritage of independence and care. The...

What are they actually putting in our food? Genetic modification in the low fat food marketing megabusiness

You may have noticed a profusion of packaged goods which claim to be healthy because they are ‘low fat’. Weight loss products command a massive global...

How the A.I. and Biotech alliance will affect New Zealand

An article published in Nature on July 30 entitled CRISPR-GPT for agentic automation of gene-editing experiments explains how genetic modification of human and plant cell lines...

The unthinking faith in biotechnology and A.I.

In his 2017 book ‘The Strange Death of Europe’ Douglas Murray argues that we have lost our sense of purpose. Fuelled by rational and scientific...

Open Letter To the Hon. Winston Peters, Party Leader and NZ Foreign Minister, and NZ First MPs

Dear Winston Peters and NZ First MPs I understand the Health Select Committee is due to report on the Gene Technology Bill in the next...

Guy Hatchard: Who is to blame?

The concerning spectacle last week of the public hearings of the Royal Commission on the Covid Pandemic Phase 2 deserves some analysis. The counsels for...

What happened? What went wrong? What will happen next? What should we do?

An article in the UK Guardian on 29th June is entitled “Calls to clean up England’s ‘toxic air’ as GP visits for asthma attacks...

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