Tom Rutherford, National MP for Bay of Plenty, is described by his party as an exciting young political prospect who is bringing experience and fresh insights...
New Zealand Outdoors & Freedom Party (NZOFP) leader Sue Grey has written an open letter to Science, Innovation and Technology Minister Judith Collins, calling...
New Zealand charity the Physicians and Scientists for Global Responsibility (PSGRNZ) have emailed an open letter to New Zealand Members of Parliament highlighting that any vote...
This article examines what we know about heredity, health and genetics.
It draws out the implications for intelligence and the applicability (or rather risks) of...
Last night we watched A House of Dynamite on Netflix.
The plot revolved around a nuclear missile strike on Chicago by an unnamed rogue nation putting the...
Five patients have been hospitalised in Queensland after ingesting the rat poison brodifacoum.
ABC reports that the authorities do not know the source of the cluster...
ACT and New Zealand First have both expressed major concerns about the government’s Gene Technology Bill, even though they supported the amendments recommended by...
The Health Select Committee has reported back to Parliament with its recommendations on the Gene Technology Bill. Their 25 page report begins with the...
The Health Select Committee has recommended passing the Gene Technology Bill, which would overhaul New Zealand’s 1996 GMO regulations and introduce a risk-based system...
This article examines genetically modified yeast in detail and shows how the biotech food industry is deceiving even consumer activists.
An article in the UK...
There are turning points in history when the direction and destiny of the human race shifts.
These times are characterised by new experiences, ideas, choices,...
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...
PM Christopher Luxon has rejected claims that New Zealand First is stalling the government’s Gene Technology Bill, saying delays reflect the need to carefully...
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...
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 Government has announced a $24 million investment into artificial intelligence and biotechnology research, partnering with Singapore on projects aimed at healthy ageing and...
Auckland will see a peaceful protest this Saturday as advocacy group GE Honesty rallies opposition to the Government’s controversial Gene Tech Bill.
The protest is...
If you read the newspapers you may not know it, but biotechnology is going through a process of collapse.
According to authoritative pharmaceutical industry online...
A remarkable situation has arisen in New Zealand.
The agency tasked with economic growth, that controls the science funding budget, wants to have the power...
New Zealanders concerned about genetically engineered food and the controversial Gene Technology Bill will gather for peaceful supermarket vigils, beginning this Saturday, 17 May.
The...
The average number of sunshine hours in NZ is above 2,000 per year.
In the UK it averages around 1,350. Incredibly, the Telegraph reports that the British...
New Zealand charity seeks public inquiries to investigate the conduct of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) and the responsible Minister, the...
A study undertaken in the EU entitled “Pesticide residues with hazard classifications relevant to non-target species including humans are omnipresent in the environment and...
