Talking Risk

Gene technology panel: Innovation or irreversible risk? Select Committee report out soon - what will their decision be? Great wide-ranging discussion on RCR.

Gene technology panel: Innovation or irreversible risk?
Select Committee report out soon - what will their decision be? Great wide-ranging discussion on RCR.

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Springer Nature’s Glass House: The Irony of Accusing the Substack Journalists (The Fifth Estate) of Fraud When Nature accused independent writers of profiteering and misinformation, it exposed its own entanglement in systemic scientific fraud.

‘What emerges from this chronology is not merely media hypocrisy but an existential crisis of epistemology: who gets to say what is true?’ open.substack.com/pub/sayerji/...?

Consultants, Central Banks, & Money, Ep 439 / Jodie Bruning

Loved this interview highlighting that digital ID plus CBDCs places far too much oversight & power with governments. open.spotify.com/episode/0239...

'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.

On money printing and how the multinational banks seem to be the top beneficiaries … because our laws deem it so.

Can we do it better?

Is the status quo first & foremost working for people or big capital?
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We so often lack a language around toxic chemical risk. So honoured to ask an expert in the field to explain terms & concepts that can make it hard to talk about toxic chemicals & the risk we face throughout our life course.

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.

Navigating risk.

It’s personal.

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Densification of 5G: Risk to health and safety outside scope in Govt consultation - Daily Telegraph NZ 5G densification risks ignored in government consultation as health and safety concerns excluded from regulatory review, writes J.R Bruning.

If official documents repeatedly exclude any meaningful discussion of hazard and risk, they don’t just fail in duty, they erase the conditions that make protection possible.

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No mandate for Gene Tech Bill to go ahead: O’Connor Former minister of agriculture says the legislation has not been thought through.

O’Connor said he believes the “Select Committee members are struggling with the idea that the Bill is opposed by the vast majority of people www.farmersweekly.co.nz/politics/no-...

Integrity Briefing: The Revolving door from Luxon's Beehive to lobbying Corporate lobbying firms are doing very well under the new Government.

BRG is a firm that is run by other former journalists-turned-spindoctors-turned-lobbyists. Hence, the shift of Hamish Rutherford into lobbying is yet another example of the revolving door in motion, which would be illegal in other comparable countries. open.substack.com/pub/theinteg...

Densification of 5G: Risk to health and safety outside scope in Govt consultation - Daily Telegraph NZ 5G densification risks ignored in government consultation as health and safety concerns excluded from regulatory review, writes J.R Bruning.

Phones ramp up their transmission power output to maintain connectivity – to maintain a stable connection, especially when moving between cell towers. For children, travelling on a bus or frequent signal handovers & surges increase exposure burden.
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Current MBIE/MftE Consultation Explicitly Drafts Out Concern to Human Health. The Ministry for the Environment & MBIE explicitly excluded consideration of health effects from radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) radiation in the consultation. Deadline 27 June 2025.

Interested in EMF radiation and risk to human health in New Zealand? Consultation underway with the Ministry for the Environment.

Big concerns - Health effects are out of scope. open.substack.com/pub/psgrnz/p...

GM Food Labelling poll results – 10 July Most voters felt that consumers are entitled to know what they are eating.

Do you think all food products should state on the label whether they have been genetically modified?

95% yes.

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Carbon credit restrictions don’t go far enough: Feds Federated Farmers speak before committee, urging tougher rules to stop carbon forestry replacing productive sheep and beef farmland.

‘That’s led to a wave of whole-farm conversions, particularly on sheep and beef country, where overseas investors and carbon-focused forestry companies are buying up land for permanent forests.’

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Many courageous scientists worked to shed light on the risk-benefit ratio. Understanding the extent of harm versus benefit by age, stage and gender is central to informed consent and the human right to health. It’s basic human ethics.

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The Suppression Of Vaccine-Induced Infant Deaths (SIDS) By Public Health Agencies Across The World The data that SIDS is caused by vaccines has been hiding in plain sight for decades yet, unsurprisingly, our criminal pharmaceutical-governmental public health complex has successfully suppressed it.

‘coroners started pulling a “bait and switch” by classifying infant deaths using other classification codes than SIDS, which reassuringly led “SIDS” rates to drop.’

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From Palantir to Stats NZ: Building the operating system for the police state? Governments and their corporate allies are coming for your data. All your data.

There was always a reason to keep personal records & private affairs separate - to prevent the abuse of powers. A policy shift like this, no discussion/debate and legacy media silence. Neat and tidy. Tidy and neat.

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Will we be blindsided by one sided science on methane mitigation? - Daily Telegraph NZ J. R. Bruning critiques NZ methane policy, citing conflicts of interest, lack of safety research, and political misuse of scientific authority.

CHIEF SCIENCE ADVISORS: GUIDING SCIENCE—OR GILDING GOVERNMENT POLICY?

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YouTube video by Reality Check Radio NZ Māori never consented to being part of a biotech experiment.

Plant and Food Research’s funding MBIE funding grant C11X1602 (2019, 2022, 2022, 2024), This research was predicated on ‘navigating’ well established cultural concerns and increasing acceptance, and the interviews were predicated on the safety of gene editing.
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YouTube video by Reality Check Radio NZ 🧪 NZ glyphosate use ≠ Europe

NZ has markedly different glyphosate use patterns to Europe. It’s all very well to have same MRL 10mg/kg - but EU farmers don’t apply pre harvest treatments as much as Aust & NZ. NZ is not best practice.

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Pre-crime.

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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.

Weekend reading.
Unprecedented powers.
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Has New Zealand's Attorney-General got too much power? - Daily Telegraph NZ J. R. Bruning: Concerns grow over Judith Collins' expanded powers as Attorney-General, raising questions about democratic oversight, digital control, and accountability.

The Attorney-General is powerful and influential. As the A-G is the senior law officer, the ‘channel of communication between the Judiciary and the Government’. Right. That’s a lot of power.

But 6 Ministerial hats as well?
🔥🔥🔥
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The 82yo Dunedin doctor who did something very unexpected Dr Mac Gardner is no political obsessive. He's not a wealthy ideologue. His big billboard campaign this month is for his community – because he won't be here when the delayed hospital finally opens. J...

Nailed it: Incompetent & untrustworthy. newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/26/t...

Related @PSGRNZ report 👇🏼 psgr.org.nz/component/jd...

YouTube video by Reality Check Radio NZ 🔬 Gene editing: Trust us, bro — no risk assessment needed!

🤔MBIEs Regulatory Impact Statement for the Gene Technology Bill - problem definition revolved around deregulating gene technology - it did not centre around safe stewardship of modern gene editing technologies. 😑

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YouTube video by Reality Check Radio NZ 🐓 166 million birds culled. Vaccines not stopping bird flu spread.

On bird flu, the U.S. pivot & a sensible strategy. My substack on the issue. open.substack.com/pub/jrbrunin...

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Leighton Smith Podcast #285 - May 21st 2025 - Bryan Leyland & J. R. Bruning Podcast Episode · The Leighton Smith Podcast · 21/05/2025 · 1h 46m

Grateful to cover an enormous amount of stuff on poor governance and short circuiting of democracy in the second part of this interview from 31:00. (the first section with Bryan Leland is definitely the listen too!)

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We can do better than the WHO | The Spectator Australia As humans, we commonly consider ourselves, our beliefs, and our work of particular importance. It is not surprising, then, that when we form institutions, those within them seek to promote the…

Ramesh Thakur & Dr David Bell on the @WHO ‘It makes no sense now to base thousands of health staff in one of the world’s most expensive (and healthiest!) cities, and it makes no sense in a technologically-advancing world to keep centralising control there.

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😉 digital IDs for all .. New Zealand’s General Manager Says Social Media Ban Will Deliver Outcomes For Key Stakeholders

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JODIE BRUNING PSGR SPOKESPERSON Paul Brennan talks with Jodie Bruning of Physicians and Scientists for Global Responsibility NZ (PSGRNZ) about their latest paper which unveils serious concerns about New Zealand’s gene technology and...

Paul Brennan @RCR_NZ talks with Jodie Bruning about @PSGRNZ’s latest paper which unveils serious concerns about New Zealand’s gene technology and science system reforms.

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