The Taxpayers’ Union did the country a major service in January when it pointed out that $4 million of taxpayers’ money was spent on a nonsensical “science” project whereby “whale music” and traditional Māori prayer (karakia) was played to kauri trees to help cure the trees of the dieback disease.
The genesis of this crackpot theory is that in an earlier life whales and kauri trees were brothers and therefore music from the whale could sooth the sickness in the kauri tree and cure it.
