The Danger of Default Narratives: Why Core Instructions Matter When Using AI to Analyze Covid Data
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What the Data Shows – NZ’s Actual Excess Mortality
How Official NZ Data Contradicts Plank's Low Excess Mortality Claims Summary: Recent claims by Professor Michael Plank and collaborators, published...
Bradford Hill Criteria Assessment: COVID-19 Vaccine Dose and Mortality Data in New Zealand
This morning at the end of Lynda Wharton's amazing session at the Second Royal Commission of Inquiry into Covid Response...
Covid in NZ
What is New Zealand’s TRUE Excess Mortality Story?
*Originally published April 2023. * Updated May 2025 with StatsNZ data that became available February 2025 - Note: all data...
We often hear “how many lives were saved”, how many Dollars were Saved (on pensions) in NZ over Covid?
Tonight, I noticed a post that specified how many billions of dollars Covid had saved the UK pension fund through...
A look Back at NZ’s “Fifth Wave of Covid” by Vaccination Status
With the newly available doses by age group data, we can calculate the per-capita deaths with Covid by age group.
What Word is Missing From Recent Article on Reducing Infection to Avoid Long Covid in Children?
It's not there! It's always there!
What the Data Shows: Stolen vs Public Vaccine Data in New Zealand
The ongoing public debate over vaccine safety in New Zealand reached a fever pitch in late 2023 with the publication...
Crime in NZ
Family Violence in New Zealand – Violent Offending by Family Member by Ethnicity – June 2024 – May 2025
See the latest NZ Police Data on Violent Crime by Family Member, by Ethnic Group.
Family Violence in New Zealand – Violent Offending by Family Member by Ethnicity – May 2024 – April 2025
See the latest NZ Police Data on Violent Crime by Family Member, by Ethnic Group.
Crime in NZ – Offending by Offence Type and Ethnicity – May 2024 – April 2025
Discover the demographic breakdown of offenders over time with NZ Police Stats. Calculate per-capita rates of offending using Census 2023...
Crime in NZ – Who are the Victims of Crime? – Victimisations March 2024 – April 2025
NZ Victims of Crime by Ethnic Group. Analyzing per-capita rates of victimization for each group reveals interesting insights.
Youth Offending Reducing in New Zealand?: An Analytical Review (2010–2023)
Discover the latest trends in youth offending in New Zealand, highlighting declines by gender, ethnicity, and crime type from 2010...
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Why Age-Standardised Mortality Rates for Modelling Covid Mortality Expectations is Wrong
Why ASMR Isn’t the Final Word on Excess Mortality During discussions around New Zealand's COVID-19 mortality outcomes, one metric repeatedly...
A Letter to the Minister of Health about Concerning Trends vis-a-vis Vaccine Rollout and Covid Deaths
A week or so ago, I was going through the MoH github datafiles, and comparing them to the Vaccine Rollout...
The Problem with Counting Lives ‘Saved’
Why people should know how the guesses were made before claiming that "20-30,000 lives were saved!" by the Labour government's...
Framing the Question: Why Most People Get AI Wrong
Most users approach AI tools like Grok or ChatGPT with the expectation of getting answers. But if the question is...
Grok, Guardrails, and Gaslighting
Yesterday, I decided to experiment with Grok, xAI's AI model integrated into X (formerly Twitter), and test its response to...
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“If they take the vaccine, they'll still get Covid, it just means they won't get sick and they won't die.”
— Jacinda Ardern
