Politicians: Stuck in Scientific Purgatory in Election Year.
The evidence for reversing chronic disease and improving metabolic and mental health is here. New Zealand’s biggest political parties aren’t listening.
J.R.Bruning Talking Risk
On democracy, policy & public-interest stewardship of manmade tech
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An Election Agreement that has locked in a Road User Charging Revolution
Why is this change necessary in the first place?
Oops. Do NZ MPs appreciate that the HSNO Bill came from direct consultation with the regulated industries - no wonder it's a deregulatory instrument!
Could the underpinning Regulatory Impact Statement be any more aligned away from the public interest? I am not so sure ....
Does New Zealand’s Mental Health Commission Understand How Powerful It is?
Published today in New Zealand's Daily Telegraph. Does nutrition for brain health really fall outside the areas the Commission has prioritised in its Statement of Intent 2025-2029?
'The Deficit'. The social construction of taxpayer debt in New Zealand & how government money is managed in an 'emergency'.
Chatting with Chat to unpick its perspective on how the money system worked; for whom it primarily worked; & the beneficiaries of government debt expansion during and beyond the Covid era.
Risk & trust: It's all different for everyone.
Why were we so polarised during COVID? It came down to a 1000 different things. A go at listing some of these things, and a chat with NewZealandDoc.
Deadline tomorrow: MBIE to weaken EMF regulations. But they don't know the lowest threshold of risk to vulnerable populations.
Encroachment of 5G enabled cell towers/antennae - when we already have fibre optic broadband? MBIE are sticking their proposed changes under a Ministry for the Environment consultation.
National Government Keeps Pace with Labour in Writing out Nutrition and Health
Because multimorbidity is the norm, and the more health conditions you have the more medicines you can have. You will achieve 'equity' as everyone can be on lots of medicine equally.
Has New Zealand’s Attorney-General got too much power?
New Zealand’s Attorney-General Hon Judith Collins has secured the responsibility for six ministerial hats, rather than the conventional two, or perhaps three hats.
When the economic growth agency captures biotech regulation: ‘A serious question of science’
Amazing vertical integration by MBIE. Bravo. Control science policy, then control the regulation of the inventions