Talking Risk
@jodiebruning.bsky.social
Agribusiness/sociology. Science & tech stewardship for public health. Secret agreements kill democracy. Trustee @PSGRNZ
Writes at http://JRBruning.Substack.com
Writes at http://JRBruning.Substack.com
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Gene technology panel: Innovation or irreversible risk?
Select Committee report out soon - what will their decision be? Great wide-ranging discussion on RCR.
psgrnz.substack.com/p/gene-techn...
Select Committee report out soon - what will their decision be? Great wide-ranging discussion on RCR.
psgrnz.substack.com/p/gene-techn...
Gene technology panel: Innovation or irreversible risk?
Select Committee report out soon - what will their decision be? Great wide-ranging discussion on RCR.
psgrnz.substack.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Gene technology panel: Innovation or irreversible risk?
Select Committee report out soon - what will their decision be? Great wide-ranging discussion on RCR.
psgrnz.substack.com/p/gene-techn...
Select Committee report out soon - what will their decision be? Great wide-ranging discussion on RCR.
psgrnz.substack.com/p/gene-techn...
‘What emerges from this chronology is not merely media hypocrisy but an existential crisis of epistemology: who gets to say what is true?’ open.substack.com/pub/sayerji/...?
Springer Nature’s Glass House: The Irony of Accusing the Substack Journalists (The Fifth Estate) of Fraud
When Nature accused independent writers of profiteering and misinformation, it exposed its own entanglement in systemic scientific fraud.
open.substack.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
‘What emerges from this chronology is not merely media hypocrisy but an existential crisis of epistemology: who gets to say what is true?’ open.substack.com/pub/sayerji/...?
Loved this interview highlighting that digital ID plus CBDCs places far too much oversight & power with governments. open.spotify.com/episode/0239...
Consultants, Central Banks, & Money, Ep 439 / Jodie Bruning
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September 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Loved this interview highlighting that digital ID plus CBDCs places far too much oversight & power with governments. open.spotify.com/episode/0239...
On money printing and how the multinational banks seem to be the top beneficiaries … because our laws deem it so.
Can we do it better?
Is the status quo first & foremost working for people or big capital?
jrbruning.substack.com/p/the-defici...
Can we do it better?
Is the status quo first & foremost working for people or big capital?
jrbruning.substack.com/p/the-defici...
'The Deficit'. The social construction of taxpayer debt in New Zealand & how government money is managed in an 'emergency'.
Chatting with Chat to unpick its perspective on how the money system worked; for whom it primarily worked; & the beneficiaries of government debt expansion during and beyond the Covid era.
jrbruning.substack.com
September 13, 2025 at 6:51 AM
On money printing and how the multinational banks seem to be the top beneficiaries … because our laws deem it so.
Can we do it better?
Is the status quo first & foremost working for people or big capital?
jrbruning.substack.com/p/the-defici...
Can we do it better?
Is the status quo first & foremost working for people or big capital?
jrbruning.substack.com/p/the-defici...
We so often lack a language around toxic chemical risk. So honoured to ask an expert in the field to explain terms & concepts that can make it hard to talk about toxic chemicals & the risk we face throughout our life course.
🔥HUGE 🔥🔥 interview with @blanphear.bsky.social public health physician & paediatric epidemiologist.
Chemical Exposures & the Toxic Risks. Making Sense of Science, Public Health, & Economic Benefit.
#DoHaD #lead #pesticides #fluoride #pollution #babies #brains
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgB9...
Chemical Exposures & the Toxic Risks. Making Sense of Science, Public Health, & Economic Benefit.
#DoHaD #lead #pesticides #fluoride #pollution #babies #brains
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgB9...
Bruce Lanphear Chemical Exposures & Risks. Making Sense of Science, Public Health & Economic Benefit
YouTube video by Physicians & Scientists for Global Responsibility
www.youtube.com
August 17, 2025 at 5:48 AM
We so often lack a language around toxic chemical risk. So honoured to ask an expert in the field to explain terms & concepts that can make it hard to talk about toxic chemicals & the risk we face throughout our life course.
If official documents repeatedly exclude any meaningful discussion of hazard and risk, they don’t just fail in duty, they erase the conditions that make protection possible.
dailytelegraph.co.nz/opinion/dens...
dailytelegraph.co.nz/opinion/dens...
Densification of 5G: Risk to health and safety outside scope in Govt consultation - Daily Telegraph NZ
5G densification risks ignored in government consultation as health and safety concerns excluded from regulatory review, writes J.R Bruning.
dailytelegraph.co.nz
August 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
If official documents repeatedly exclude any meaningful discussion of hazard and risk, they don’t just fail in duty, they erase the conditions that make protection possible.
dailytelegraph.co.nz/opinion/dens...
dailytelegraph.co.nz/opinion/dens...
O’Connor said he believes the “Select Committee members are struggling with the idea that the Bill is opposed by the vast majority of people www.farmersweekly.co.nz/politics/no-...
No mandate for Gene Tech Bill to go ahead: O’Connor
Former minister of agriculture says the legislation has not been thought through.
www.farmersweekly.co.nz
August 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
O’Connor said he believes the “Select Committee members are struggling with the idea that the Bill is opposed by the vast majority of people www.farmersweekly.co.nz/politics/no-...
BRG is a firm that is run by other former journalists-turned-spindoctors-turned-lobbyists. Hence, the shift of Hamish Rutherford into lobbying is yet another example of the revolving door in motion, which would be illegal in other comparable countries. open.substack.com/pub/theinteg...
Integrity Briefing: The Revolving door from Luxon's Beehive to lobbying
Corporate lobbying firms are doing very well under the new Government.
open.substack.com
July 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
BRG is a firm that is run by other former journalists-turned-spindoctors-turned-lobbyists. Hence, the shift of Hamish Rutherford into lobbying is yet another example of the revolving door in motion, which would be illegal in other comparable countries. open.substack.com/pub/theinteg...
Phones ramp up their transmission power output to maintain connectivity – to maintain a stable connection, especially when moving between cell towers. For children, travelling on a bus or frequent signal handovers & surges increase exposure burden.
dailytelegraph.co.nz/opinion/dens...
dailytelegraph.co.nz/opinion/dens...
Densification of 5G: Risk to health and safety outside scope in Govt consultation - Daily Telegraph NZ
5G densification risks ignored in government consultation as health and safety concerns excluded from regulatory review, writes J.R Bruning.
dailytelegraph.co.nz
July 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Phones ramp up their transmission power output to maintain connectivity – to maintain a stable connection, especially when moving between cell towers. For children, travelling on a bus or frequent signal handovers & surges increase exposure burden.
dailytelegraph.co.nz/opinion/dens...
dailytelegraph.co.nz/opinion/dens...
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Interested in EMF radiation and risk to human health in New Zealand? Consultation underway with the Ministry for the Environment.
Big concerns - Health effects are out of scope. open.substack.com/pub/psgrnz/p...
Big concerns - Health effects are out of scope. open.substack.com/pub/psgrnz/p...
Current MBIE/MftE Consultation Explicitly Drafts Out Concern to Human Health.
The Ministry for the Environment & MBIE explicitly excluded consideration of health effects from radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) radiation in the consultation. Deadline 27 June 2025.
open.substack.com
July 19, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Interested in EMF radiation and risk to human health in New Zealand? Consultation underway with the Ministry for the Environment.
Big concerns - Health effects are out of scope. open.substack.com/pub/psgrnz/p...
Big concerns - Health effects are out of scope. open.substack.com/pub/psgrnz/p...
Do you think all food products should state on the label whether they have been genetically modified?
95% yes.
www.farmersweekly.co.nz/news/weekly-...
95% yes.
www.farmersweekly.co.nz/news/weekly-...
GM Food Labelling poll results – 10 July
Most voters felt that consumers are entitled to know what they are eating.
www.farmersweekly.co.nz
July 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Do you think all food products should state on the label whether they have been genetically modified?
95% yes.
www.farmersweekly.co.nz/news/weekly-...
95% yes.
www.farmersweekly.co.nz/news/weekly-...
‘That’s led to a wave of whole-farm conversions, particularly on sheep and beef country, where overseas investors and carbon-focused forestry companies are buying up land for permanent forests.’
www.farmersweekly.co.nz/politics/car...
www.farmersweekly.co.nz/politics/car...
Carbon credit restrictions don’t go far enough: Feds
Federated Farmers speak before committee, urging tougher rules to stop carbon forestry replacing productive sheep and beef farmland.
www.farmersweekly.co.nz
July 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
‘That’s led to a wave of whole-farm conversions, particularly on sheep and beef country, where overseas investors and carbon-focused forestry companies are buying up land for permanent forests.’
www.farmersweekly.co.nz/politics/car...
www.farmersweekly.co.nz/politics/car...
Many courageous scientists worked to shed light on the risk-benefit ratio. Understanding the extent of harm versus benefit by age, stage and gender is central to informed consent and the human right to health. It’s basic human ethics.
www.vaccinetrialstories.com
www.vaccinetrialstories.com
INSIDE THE VACCINE TRIALS – LIVED EXPERIENCES | Discover Vaccine Stories – Learn More
Explore personal experiences of vaccine trial participants and insights on vaccine safety, transparency, and post-vaccination health challenges worldwide.
www.vaccinetrialstories.com
July 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Many courageous scientists worked to shed light on the risk-benefit ratio. Understanding the extent of harm versus benefit by age, stage and gender is central to informed consent and the human right to health. It’s basic human ethics.
www.vaccinetrialstories.com
www.vaccinetrialstories.com
‘coroners started pulling a “bait and switch” by classifying infant deaths using other classification codes than SIDS, which reassuringly led “SIDS” rates to drop.’
open.substack.com/pub/pierreko...?
open.substack.com/pub/pierreko...?
The Suppression Of Vaccine-Induced Infant Deaths (SIDS) By Public Health Agencies Across The World
The data that SIDS is caused by vaccines has been hiding in plain sight for decades yet, unsurprisingly, our criminal pharmaceutical-governmental public health complex has successfully suppressed it.
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June 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
‘coroners started pulling a “bait and switch” by classifying infant deaths using other classification codes than SIDS, which reassuringly led “SIDS” rates to drop.’
open.substack.com/pub/pierreko...?
open.substack.com/pub/pierreko...?
There was always a reason to keep personal records & private affairs separate - to prevent the abuse of powers. A policy shift like this, no discussion/debate and legacy media silence. Neat and tidy. Tidy and neat.
open.substack.com/pub/bonniefl...?
open.substack.com/pub/bonniefl...?
From Palantir to Stats NZ: Building the operating system for the police state?
Governments and their corporate allies are coming for your data. All your data.
open.substack.com
June 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
There was always a reason to keep personal records & private affairs separate - to prevent the abuse of powers. A policy shift like this, no discussion/debate and legacy media silence. Neat and tidy. Tidy and neat.
open.substack.com/pub/bonniefl...?
open.substack.com/pub/bonniefl...?
CHIEF SCIENCE ADVISORS: GUIDING SCIENCE—OR GILDING GOVERNMENT POLICY?
dailytelegraph.co.nz/opinion/will...
dailytelegraph.co.nz/opinion/will...
Will we be blindsided by one sided science on methane mitigation? - Daily Telegraph NZ
J. R. Bruning critiques NZ methane policy, citing conflicts of interest, lack of safety research, and political misuse of scientific authority.
dailytelegraph.co.nz
June 14, 2025 at 1:13 AM
CHIEF SCIENCE ADVISORS: GUIDING SCIENCE—OR GILDING GOVERNMENT POLICY?
dailytelegraph.co.nz/opinion/will...
dailytelegraph.co.nz/opinion/will...
Plant and Food Research’s funding MBIE funding grant C11X1602 (2019, 2022, 2022, 2024), This research was predicated on ‘navigating’ well established cultural concerns and increasing acceptance, and the interviews were predicated on the safety of gene editing.
m.youtube.com/shorts/VPsm6...
m.youtube.com/shorts/VPsm6...
Māori never consented to being part of a biotech experiment.
YouTube video by Reality Check Radio NZ
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June 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Plant and Food Research’s funding MBIE funding grant C11X1602 (2019, 2022, 2022, 2024), This research was predicated on ‘navigating’ well established cultural concerns and increasing acceptance, and the interviews were predicated on the safety of gene editing.
m.youtube.com/shorts/VPsm6...
m.youtube.com/shorts/VPsm6...
NZ has markedly different glyphosate use patterns to Europe. It’s all very well to have same MRL 10mg/kg - but EU farmers don’t apply pre harvest treatments as much as Aust & NZ. NZ is not best practice.
m.youtube.com/shorts/shNq8...
m.youtube.com/shorts/shNq8...
🧪 NZ glyphosate use ≠ Europe
YouTube video by Reality Check Radio NZ
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June 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
NZ has markedly different glyphosate use patterns to Europe. It’s all very well to have same MRL 10mg/kg - but EU farmers don’t apply pre harvest treatments as much as Aust & NZ. NZ is not best practice.
m.youtube.com/shorts/shNq8...
m.youtube.com/shorts/shNq8...
The Attorney-General is powerful and influential. As the A-G is the senior law officer, the ‘channel of communication between the Judiciary and the Government’. Right. That’s a lot of power.
But 6 Ministerial hats as well?
🔥🔥🔥
dailytelegraph.co.nz/opinion/has-...
But 6 Ministerial hats as well?
🔥🔥🔥
dailytelegraph.co.nz/opinion/has-...
Has New Zealand's Attorney-General got too much power? - Daily Telegraph NZ
J. R. Bruning: Concerns grow over Judith Collins' expanded powers as Attorney-General, raising questions about democratic oversight, digital control, and accountability.
dailytelegraph.co.nz
June 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The Attorney-General is powerful and influential. As the A-G is the senior law officer, the ‘channel of communication between the Judiciary and the Government’. Right. That’s a lot of power.
But 6 Ministerial hats as well?
🔥🔥🔥
dailytelegraph.co.nz/opinion/has-...
But 6 Ministerial hats as well?
🔥🔥🔥
dailytelegraph.co.nz/opinion/has-...
Nailed it: Incompetent & untrustworthy. newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/26/t...
The 82yo Dunedin doctor who did something very unexpected
Dr Mac Gardner is no political obsessive. He's not a wealthy ideologue. His big billboard campaign this month is for his community – because he won't be here when the delayed hospital finally opens. J...
newsroom.co.nz
May 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Nailed it: Incompetent & untrustworthy. newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/26/t...
🤔MBIEs Regulatory Impact Statement for the Gene Technology Bill - problem definition revolved around deregulating gene technology - it did not centre around safe stewardship of modern gene editing technologies. 😑
m.youtube.com/shorts/FCTxl...
m.youtube.com/shorts/FCTxl...
🔬 Gene editing: Trust us, bro — no risk assessment needed!
YouTube video by Reality Check Radio NZ
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May 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
🤔MBIEs Regulatory Impact Statement for the Gene Technology Bill - problem definition revolved around deregulating gene technology - it did not centre around safe stewardship of modern gene editing technologies. 😑
m.youtube.com/shorts/FCTxl...
m.youtube.com/shorts/FCTxl...
On bird flu, the U.S. pivot & a sensible strategy. My substack on the issue. open.substack.com/pub/jrbrunin...
m.youtube.com/shorts/y0UY2...
m.youtube.com/shorts/y0UY2...
🐓 166 million birds culled. Vaccines not stopping bird flu spread.
YouTube video by Reality Check Radio NZ
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May 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
On bird flu, the U.S. pivot & a sensible strategy. My substack on the issue. open.substack.com/pub/jrbrunin...
m.youtube.com/shorts/y0UY2...
m.youtube.com/shorts/y0UY2...