During COVID-19 I was researching and writing my master’s thesis while also working pro bono for PSGR. My thesis concerned the problem of scientists in New Zealand and Australia being unable to access public research funding for public good scientific research. The specific research area was health conditions that were […]
Undone Science
Bee killers – Neonicotinoid pesticides in New Zealand
Biodiversity rhetoric often excludes comment on contamination and pollution from economic activity. Narratives relating to biodiversity loss often exclude the relationship of biodiversity decline and persistent applications of pesticides over years. Also avoided are the low level, or sub-chronic exposures to surrounding ecosystems -the soil and water profiles, and the […]
What is an endocrine disruptor?
‘There is increasing Evidence That Endocrine Disruption (EDC) Exposures Play a Substantive Role In Disease Causation Or Progression.’ Gore et al 2015 An enormous quantity of medical literature involves the manipulation of synthetic chemicals at ultra-low doses – parts per billion, for example – to alter hormone function. Hormonally active […]
Biased Science: Pesticides
Pesticides. It’s Simple. The Corporation Selling The Product Should Not Select The Safety Studies. In the world of pesticides, regulatory agency policies preferentialise unpublished industry data over published scientific data. This is enabled through the production of policies which favours the decisions made by unaccountable institutions, the WHO-FAO JMPR and […]



