Archive - J.R.Bruning Talking Risk

Has New Zealand’s Attorney-General got too much power?

New Zealand’s Attorney-General Hon Judith Collins has secured the responsibility for six ministerial hats, rather than the conventional two, or perhaps…

Jun 6 •

May 2025

When the economic growth agency captures biotech regulation: ‘A serious question of science’

Amazing vertical integration by MBIE. Bravo. Control science policy, then control the regulation of the inventions

May 18 •

DON'T MAKE BIRD FLU A PLUCKING DISASTER

Don't lock-step follow 'accepted practice internationally'. Don't conflate high infectivity with a high death rate. If New Zealand is blind to the…

May 1 •

April 2025

Networked Risk. The challenge for New Zealand's C19 Royal Commissioners.

Any response to any future pandemic event must be viewed in context of global power - but also in context of individual risk.

Apr 20 •

COVID-19 - the cleverest psyop if ever there was.

With responses to Phase 2 of the Royal Commission due in a week, I thought it was time to put my COVID-19 work in one place.

Apr 18 •

November 2024

3 OIA requests to understand MBIEs 'facts' and reasoning Re: The Gene Technology Regulator

It's not appropriate that scientific claims underpinning new laws & regulations should be 'pre-settled' in a predetermined manner. Why? Select…

Nov 19, 2024 •

October 2024

Is Facebook protecting Big Pharma?

Why would Facebook be censoring the First Do No Pharm which explores industry influence and power, using the example of statin medication?

Oct 26, 2024 •

September 2024

Is an Australian Impact Assessment claiming cost-benefit for the new censorship regime by claiming consensus on risk and efficacy?

When mainstream media won’t criticise government policy - and government won’t be criticised - the next step is misinformation and disinformation…

Sep 15, 2024 •

Media omissions fuel division on fluoride?

Just another unpublished article. Perhaps my article is pathetic, unwarranted bullshit, and of no interest to Tauranga residents.

Sep 15, 2024 •

FSANZ’S paradigm shift in gene-edited food regulation to excluding a wide range of gene edited foods from being categorised as GMOs.

FSANZ claim these GMO foods are 'substantially equivalent' to conventional foods, but a key element of risk assessment - the scale & pace of biotech…

Sep 4, 2024 •

August 2024

Asking Auckland Council - does s116E of the Health Act undermine & contradict other legislation that officials are legally required to…

Doe s116E force officials to close their minds to potential health harms? No requirement of D-G to consider safety, nor balance reduction in caries…

Aug 29, 2024 •

Agricultural and horticultural products regulatory review: Is the review set up to fail?

It looks like the time frame is too short, and the terms of reference plays directly into the hands of the importing drug and agricultural companies …

Aug 24, 2024 •

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