JANUARY 24, 2026. I’m proud and delighted that a wide range of eminent scientists and doctors, whose expertise traverses metabolic science, paediatric health & brain nutrition, have generously supported PSGRNZ’s (2026) paper: This primary link provides links to the ‘Reclaiming Health’ paper; the quotes; social media images for sharing (yes […]
Extracts from my October 2022 discussion paper: COVID-19 in New Zealand: Ethics & the Setting Aside of Normative Principles. October, 18, 2022. (refs in original paper) Humanity has a long history of avoiding bringing attention to the ethical mismatch, when lower order rules contradict higher level principles. Actions taken 2020-2022 […]
The New Zealand State, Medical Capture & the Role of Strategic Ignorance. Summary New Zealand’s Unite Against COVID-19 ‘stamp it out’, or ‘elimination’ strategy is revealing it’s democratic and political deficit. The strategy relied on the deployment of policy, legislation and simple slogans focusing on case rates, vaccination, masking and […]
The River Story, attributed to Irving Zola, by New Zealand sociologist John B. McKinlay “A Case for Refocusing Upstream: The Political Economy of Illness” McKinlay, J.B. (first published 1975) My friend, Irving Zola, relates the story of a physician trying to explain the dilemmas of the modern practice of medicine: […]
The process of unwrapping the drivers of persistent societal and environmental problems involve extraordinary political challenges. Persistent wicked problems include such diverse issues as pervasive anthropogenic pollution, nutrient loss in food, the privatisation of data, climate change, obesity and non-communicable disease. Wicked problems require that the public, scientists and policy […]