sunday star times Archive

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    Mass medication: the debate rages on and on - by frog



    I see in today’s Sunday Star Times that the Government is rethinking its plans to force bread makers to put folic acid into all of our bread supplies. This comes after a Chilean report that shows increased incidence of cancer since they started requiring that wheat flour be fortified with folic acid some years ago. [...] read more
    May 17, 2009 11:34 am - 37 Comments
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    Focus on Pharmac - by frog



    Rarely are so few asked to do so much with so little for the benefit of so many, who are ungrateful. That’s how I would describe Pharmac’s calling. Today’s Sunday Star Times spends an inordinate amount of column inches discussing the challenges Pharmac faces. Or does it? The unattributed comment piece on A11, “Pharmac’s $635 [...] read more
    November 30, 2008 1:45 pm - 37 Comments
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    Michael Law’s jackboot nanny state (fashion police gone mad) - by frog



    Picture a world where the state tells you what you can and cannot wear in public. Where the state tells you who you can and cannot associate with. Where the civil liberties you get are based on the lottery of your demographics. This is the world that the self-proclaimed nemesis of the nanny state, Michael [...] read more
    August 3, 2008 10:56 am - 81 Comments
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    Hooton is half right - by frog



    Matthew Hooton lashes out a Chris Trotter today in the Sunday Star Times. He gets so personal that after I write this, I’ll dig up Trotter’s article from last week and have a read. I don’t know how I missed Trotter being vitriolic!. In the middle of his article, Hooton makes an interesting assertion: The [...] read more
    July 27, 2008 12:32 pm - 24 Comments