Penn Raine: Who is Jennifer Pritzker…and why should we care?

Between 2000 and 2019 it is estimated that 500,000 Americans died from overdosing on OxyContin, the Perdue Pharma opioid pain medication, developed initially for severe pain but later widely prescribed. Subsequent Federal investigations revealed that Perdue had not held clinical trials to support its claim that the drug was likely not to be addictive and that its contact in the FDA had a cosy relationship with the company for whom he later went to work for a trebled salary soon after he had ushered OxyContin over the line.

John Raine: A Country Too Easily Swayed by Minorities?

I started writing this with the Doors singing Strange Days. It seemed apt.

We now live in a surreal world where the post-modernists and critical social justice warriors are determined to give equal standing to traditional knowledge and vitalist belief systems against modern world science [see Raine, Lillis, and Schwerdtfeger [1]). Calls to preserve democracy by ensuring equal rights for all ethnicities in our country are now labelled extreme right-wing and racist. In our new world, climate science has been politically weaponised, and biological women can be censured for objecting to a transwoman who is still a biological man being able to use the same changing room.

Ele Ludemann: Govt pushing gender activism on schools

Did you know that the Education and Workforce select committee is considering the Education and Training Amendment Act (3)?

And did you know that it includes this requirement for appointments to school boards?