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Guy Hatchard: What is science and who is an expert?

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Last night we heard the decision of the High Court Judge in the baby W case, who ruled that the state should enforce a...

A New Comprehensive History of the Biotechnology Era

Guy Hatchard -

Introduction It is the year 23 PB (post biotechnology) and 2076 in that old reckoning that few of us use these days. Most historians of...

Police recover 23 million year old fossil taken from Little Wanganui Beach

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Police have this morning recovered a fossil that was taken from Little Wanganui Beach over Labour Weekend. A search warrant was carried out at a...

Guy Hatchard: After millions of years of natural evolution Humans decided to try biotechnology

Guy Hatchard -

There are 37 trillion cells that make up the human body. Each of these cells contains the original genetic information from the very first cell....

Tap water ‘recycled’ ten times before you drink it – study

Daily Telegraph NZ -

An economics professor devised a formula to calculate how many times water has been consumed. The tap water people drink in 2022 is the same...

GLOBE – Global Legislation Outlawing Biotechnology Experimentation launches

Daily Telegraph NZ -

GLOBE is an informal alliance of scientists, doctors, individuals and groups wishing to protect populations from the impact of biotechnology experiments. The pandemic has highlighted...

World’s largest particle collider at risk over EU energy crunch

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Scientists at the European nuclear research organization (CERN) fear they might have to shut down particle accelerators to save energy. The European energy crisis is...

Researchers Discover Origin of the Black Death

Mary Manley -

For years, researchers have been attempting to trace the origin of the Black Death, a bubonic plague that spread across the world via Oriental...

What Killed the Megalodon? Scientists Say Great White Shark Out-Competed Fearsome Fish

Daily Telegraph NZ -

It’s terrifying to think that a better hunter than the largest shark even known to exist might still be alive today, but according to...

‘Complete Shock’: Skull Estimated to be 8,000 Years Old Found in Minnesota River

Mary Manley -

The long withstanding megadrought in Nevada and much of the Western United States revealed two bodies in Lake Mead after the drought depleted its...

Is technology destroying our capacity to think clearly?

Guy Hatchard -

Like Robert Frost, looking out from the distant perspective of a remote rural property, we wonder about the future of our world. Writing in 1920...

Name is Balkanatolia: Scientists Discover Lost Continent That Changed Europe’s Animal Population

Daily Telegraph NZ -

According to researchers, the continent is now mostly underwater at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. But during the Eocene period, an era...

How realistic is the prospect of a ‘quantum apocalypse’?

Norman Lewis -

A new generation of fear entrepreneurs in the IT industry are promoting anxieties and fatalism about the threat quantum computing poses to the future...

Gene technology: does it have a history of safety?

Guy Hatchard -

Stuck in a parallel universe:—at our local school a doctor arrived to address the student body and the staff about Covid-19 inoculation. Reassuringly the doctor...