Dr Guy Hatchard: New Data Sheds Light on a Cancer Epidemic That is Being Covered Up

In the 1980s, I bought a Casio handheld programmable calculator and amused myself writing routines that solved algebraic equations, but I soon realised that calculators turn off the thinking process.

The ubiquitous use of calculators in schools has since created generations of mathematically deficient graduates.

Peter Williams: The Cancer War - Time for a New Approach

We should think about what we eat

Then US President Richard Nixon declared a “War on Cancer” in 1971.

Fifty three years later cancer is winning.

In New Zealand the Cancer Society says 71 people are diagnosed every day. That’s 26,000 a year or about 350 per 100,000 of population, a number well above the global average ( 200 / 100,000) although below that of the US and Australia.

Dr Sterling Burnett: Shameless Alarmists Spread Climate Change Cancer Horror Story

Over the years I’ve become almost inured to the crazy claims various climate alarmists have made. They have tried to link almost every bad thing that happens in the world to climate change, from psychiatric disorders to violent crime, from the end of winter sports to reduced milk production, from hair loss to the loss of one’s sex drive. And no, in case you are wondering, I’m not making these examples up: you can find the articles yourselves by typing the terms into your favorite search engine.

None of these claims, nor any of the myriad other loony links alarmists have tried to establish between human fossil fuel use and bad outcomes, have any basis in facts or hard data. 

Now, adding insult to injury, an article in the journal CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, irresponsibly hyped by CNBC, is falsely claiming “[c]limate change has triggered more frequent weather disasters like hurricanes and wildfires, … lower[ing] cancer survival rate[s] and threaten[ing] prevention.”

Bob Edlin: Maori demand “partnership” in new cancer agency

A modern-day interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi – contentiously bringing “partnership” into considerations –  is encouraging Maori demands for equal representation on a new health agency.

The government has announced it will establish a national Cancer Control Agency by December as part of a 10-year strategy, which includes achieving cancer survival equity by 2030.

This triggered a Maori health leader’s insistence on equal representation within the new agency and her call for Maori to decide what this means in practice.