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Another opinion piece which I quite enjoyed.
I feel a bit like the anti-Winger posting up articles which confirm my bias ...
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11863109
It's not bias mate. It's science
I'm biased towards science.
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Not to denigrate the validity of Toby Manhires oped (he has to be right sometimes) but WTF is going on with the proof editing
I remember one especially long, anguished and beer-soaked argument about vaccination, in a pub in Leytonstone, East London, I remember one especially long, anguished and beer-soaked argument about vaccination, in a pub in Leytonstone, East London, at some point in the middle of the last century
I took that as humour suggesting he is old
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@No-Quarter said in Woo:
Good article, though she says it's a polarizing debate which I guess technically it is, as there is little middle ground, but I generally associate that with a more 50/50 split. This is more like a 95/5 split with people like Lance O'Sullivan trying to ensure the 5 doesn't grow any further as that would have serious implications.
The Monkey Cage's take on balance:
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Ding! Ding! Ding! Loonies v1,000,000.
The epicentre here is Raglan, a haven for hippies, lifestyle block socialists and other people with a loose grasp on reality.
The activist here is a midwife of 25 years' experience who is currently "on leave" from the vocation. Sure, she made her own decision to be "on leave".
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11873050
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Midwifery has a decent amount of these sort of loons within it unfortunately, North and South did a story a couple of years back about the avoidable deaths and bad advice midwives had been responsible for and the Midwives council filed a complaint about it. Not because there was anything inaccurate in the article-but because the way the baby was held on the cover was not recommended. I think the midwives council is part of the problem, they go into bat for the loons when the babies health should be their number one concern.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11507845
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/parenting/68674972/discredited-vaccine-advice-endangers-babies -
Ours was great but yup there's plenty of loony ones out there.
Have to watch your back with the odd one too..Health and Disability Commission describes midwife's actions "as a severe breach of trust".
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/92124354/A-midwife-has-been-censured-for-having-an-affair-with-clients-husband?cid=app-iPhone -
@Virgil when I heard about that the first thing I thought of was the time I went to a joinery factory looking for the boss , one of the guys there told me he was at his lawyer because he was getting divorced. Turned out she'd been cheating on him and he found out, she told him it was because he was always at work and never there for her so they went to relationship councilling.
He caught her rooting the councillor , when I picked my jaw up off the floor I said he must have been gutted, according to his worker the boss was stoked to find out he's all good and she's just a lying trollop . -
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John Oliver did something useful for a change and pointed out the idiocy of the pro disease nutters and the halfwits that still believe Wakefield .
He's always taken shots at that crowd.
I'm sure if you went through all his shows and weighed up his topics you'd find yourself agreeing with more than what you'd disagree with - despite your political leanings.
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John Oliver did something useful for a change and pointed out the idiocy of the pro disease nutters and the halfwits that still believe Wakefield .
He's always taken shots at that crowd.
I'm sure if you went through all his shows and weighed up his topics you'd find yourself agreeing with more than what you'd disagree with - despite your political leanings.
For sure, the shows he does about the justice system are usually good.
Interestingly Curia polled NZ about medicinal marijuana and the results were quite surprising.
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@jegga Damn, I feel into your devious plan to add more clicks to Kiwiblog by not reading the link and just reading your post and clicking.
I haven't actually read kiwiblog for a while but saw that today and thought it was worth posting . When my mother was having chemo and radiation therapy last year she dropped hints about wherher weed would help with the nausea and lack of appetite my first thought was a flashback to all those lectures I got as a teenager and it was a trap then the realisation I probably don't know anyone I could score off which made me feel much older and more uncool than usual.
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I cannot agree with this article more
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11894335
People's invented allergies are a complete pain in the arse and they need to educate themselves and stop making their own issues someone elses. If you don't want to eat the food as described on the menu then don't go in there, try and find somewhere that will pander to your demands or be a miserable git and stay at home.
Chefs are more than happy to provide vegetarian or vegan options within their style, many are even happy to mark their menus with whether a dish contains certain 'problem' ingredients. You aren't paying enough for them to be your personal chef though and tailor everything to your fussiness.I have just had my sister in law and niece staying with us and both have convinced themselves that most food is poison. It is complete bullshit though. 'I can't eat gluten but I can eat sourdough bread', 'I won't eat meat but I do eat a bit of chicken' somehow also means they don't even care if the chicken is factory farmed because they won't pay for free range /good quality.
Don't even start me on how embarrassing it is to go out with them. The poor restaurants just get endless questions about everything and then they order next nothing with everything disassembled so they can pick through it and just want free water. We end up trying to compensate at the end with a tip to cover the fact that the place just lost two seats to someone unwilling to actually buy anything and I usually slip aside to apologise to the kitchen.
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