Telegraph readers should not be disappointed with the dispute between Nick Coatsworth and Kerryn Phelps. (Health experts clash over timing of school restart, online, 9/1). Perhaps things are getting back […]
Read MoreMixed messages don’t help
News that drivers exiting their cars to stretch their legs in Mosman is a new risk factor to catching the dreaded Covid virus was a perfect climax to the Health […]
Read MoreResponsive bureaucracy reassures on Covid
The people of NSW appear disappointed with the apparent mind-changing and mixed messaging coming from our Health Department. (NSW to get Pfizer jabs booster shot, 22/6). But those who understand […]
Read MoreOverdose not a concern
A touch of scientific reality should muffle the delight that anti-vaxxers might feel after evidence of patients receiving an overdose of the COVID vaccination. (No Specific Treatment for the COVID-19 […]
Read MoreQuarantined
I’m bewildered why MP Craig Kelly attempts to win the hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) debate in the obviously partisan Facebook pages of chief censor Mark Zuckerberg. (Kelly’s last post, 17/2). The debate […]
Read MoreJust medicine
MP Craig Kelly has disagreed with the mainstream opinion about hydroxychloroquine and its place in the prophylactic treatment of COVID. (Call to rein-in anti-vax politician, 3/2). Simply put, unlike the […]
Read MoreThe wonders of digging up the past
Opining on what profession we might choose if we had our time over again, few could ignore the calling of forensic archaeology after reading my favorite story of the day […]
Read MoreThe sacrifices of science
History writer Troy Lennon has captured the real essence of human courage challenging science, describing the work and untimely death of volcanologist David Johnston 40 years ago. (Scientist died as […]
Read MoreAccountability needed
Scientists working on any weapons systems are always confronted with the morality of empowering their government with killing devices. (Labor’s Nazi slur, 14/5). Scientists developing the atomic bomb in the […]
Read MoreScience is the winner
The life work of Alan Mackay-Sim is worthy of his award as Australian of the Year. Often in scientific research, finding something does not work is as important as the […]
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