Before I started writing medical papers and such I was a musician and I'm a musician again. I'm also a big lover of the Internet which has given us many fine things and a place to stay but which one can see is no longer well. In a spirit of concern and heartbreak I wrote this song and recorded it with my band, The New Existentialists. The video was made by Andrew Moore and Hayley Theyers (who made the cover photo) and as you can has been doing fairly well, we even got a write up in the Australasian edition of Rolling Stone. The complete 5-track Last Days of the Internet EP can be downlo ..read more

New Zealand schools have introduced a climate change resource that suggests children “eat less meat and dairy”, even though teachers will not know how much meat or dairy any child in their care has eaten. Opinion pieces in the papers have called for the reduction of meat and dairy in hospital menus, not usually generous sources of such foods, despite the well-known risks of undernutrition, especially of protein, in the frail and elderly. Globally, the influential and once-objective medical journal the Lancet has hosted Eat Lancet, a coalition of vegan and vegetarian technocrats backed by proce ..read more

This post first appeared early last year as a paywalled post on my Patreon blog. If you want to support my esoteric dietary researches, become a subscriber! The following is an excerpt from a book by Dion Fortune - Moon Magic, most likely. Fortune was an influential UK occultist who codified the esoteric practice of her time for the mass public. Although she died, of leukaemia, in 1948 her books later became widely-read at a time of heightened interest due to the counter-culture and modernist disruption of traditional religious and scientific belief systems. Her observations are drawn from h ..read more

This post was originally published on Patreon. You don't have encourage the speculations of the likes of me, but if you want to try, please subscribe!   Every day on NZ twitter people are debating what they would do were they the Government about vaccine roll-outs, MIQ, lockdowns, DJ's, and any other thing they can think of that they have absolutely no influence over. Maybe, like me, you're double-chipped, using the app, wearing the mask, and annoying AF. Maybe you're even boostered up the wazoo. Well done. But y'know what? You're probably going to catch covid. Even if you don't, someo ..read more

Greetings readers! Every so often I am asked to review new or best-selling books related to diet for Newsroom and am encouraged by the Reading Room editor Steve Braunias, a very fine writer indeed, not to hold back. Here's my "review" of two books on vegetables, which is mostly on the role of selenium, probiotics, and vitamin D in the Covid pandemic, as well as the value of meat in the preservation of mental health, and the promise of LCHF, keto and fasting diets for type 2 diabetes remission. The more clicks and readers it gets, the more chance I'll have of presenting these types of ideas ..read more

  Imagine a counterfactual America, an alternative history wherein it has always been a well-known and accepted fact that Lee Harvey Oswald, a lone-wolf Marxist, had assassinated the President of the United States for rational Marxist reasons as well as subterranean personal ones. In this America, a school shooting by a paranoid vegan only encourages logical and evidence-based discussion of gun control and mental illness, a terror attack by Islamist hijackers is unanimously attributed to its obvious perpetrators, the Moon is American, and one cannot simply say that one has won an elec ..read more

You would have seen this paper; senior author is Sara Seidelmann of the infamous "low carb kills" paper, the reviewers were one vegan propagandist David Jenkins (a friend of the family, so to speak) and an Iranian prof with a decent publications list in the plant-based area - neither with any infectious diseases expertise. There were 568 COVID-19 cases and 2316 controls. Among the 568 cases, 138 individuals had moderate-to-severe COVID-19 severity whereas 430 individuals had very mild to mild COVID-19 severity. After adjusting for important confounders, participants who reported following ‘pl ..read more

This post was originally published as a subscriber-only post on Patreon. You don't have encourage the speculations of the likes of me, but if you want to try, please subscribe! By now, we've all seen them - studies that purport to show equivalent effects of LCHF and HCLF diets once diet quality is addressed and people are Eating Whole Unprocessed Foods. The latter is a good thing, the default to go for in terms of population health; macronutrient tweaking is next-level. But here's a question - why were almost all the original studies that validated the efficacy of LCHF diets to a skeptical ..read more

It is with great pleasure that I can announce results from an experiment I was actually involved with, albeit long ago. It happened like this - having noticed that probiotics were helping with my HCV symptoms, I was theorising about the reasons for this in a Hep C forum; this attracted the notice of Elizabeth McKenna, who was working with Beth Jones, the senior author of the present paper. Dr Jones had invented a process for producing a cell wall lysate from bacteria that, or so it was claimed, preserved the probiotic immune function to a far greater extent than other lysates and heat-killed ..read more

I’ve been lucky enough to have worked as an extra on the latest fantasy series, and this means I have finally had the time and the freedom from digital poisoning to read some of the books I have wanted to finish. Like Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus. A Thomas Mann book is long and its characters and ideas only really come into focus in the second half. But when they do, wow. Hitler – what were the Germans thinking? Mann describes not the rise of the Nazis but the fall of reason and cults of irrationality that preceded it. And which could precede any form of extreme collectivism anywhere. What he ..read more