COVID-19 Vaccination Degrades the Ability of the Immune System to Distinguish Between the Benign and the Pathogenic An extraordinary but little heralded research paper was published by Nature last week entitled "SARS-CoV-2-specific plasma cells are not durably established in the bone marrow long-lived compartment after mRNA vaccination". We consider the implications for public health which are very significant and worrying, and suggest a new direction to mitigate the fallout. Essentially, the paper investigates the effect of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines on long term immunity. It is by now well known that any antibody protection afforded by them wanes rapidly within three to six months leaving the vaccine recipient vulnerable...

Governments are deregulating biotechnology. What will that mean for us? An article in the UK Daily Mail entitled “The wave of new £2m-a-dose NHS drugs that can alter our DNA to beat heart disease, cancer and even blindness... and are already curing patients" gives us a clue. It touts genetic interventions as “the greatest medical breakthrough since antibiotics” and promises to banish cancer, heart disease, blindness, and you name it. The article continues: “For example, the pioneering treatment has already been used to combat a number of previously incurable conditions.” The next sentence reveals that NHS experts have made a pledge (yes, a real old-fashioned pledge) to roll...

New Zealand Constitutional Reform—The Need of Our Times Sometimes in life, we find ourselves at a moral crossroads. On the path of our development as...

Governments are deregulating biotechnology. What will that mean for us? An article in the UK Daily Mail entitled “The wave of new £2m-a-dose NHS drugs...