First we set out the background, later we will draw out the implications as we stand on the threshold of an unfettered era of biotech experimentation.

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An article in the 28th March NY Times is entitled Top F.D.A. Vaccine Official Resigns, Citing Kennedy’s ‘Misinformation and Lies’. It reports the ‘resignation’ of Dr Peter Marks, who led the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), which authorised and monitored the safety of vaccines and a wide array of other treatments, including cell and gene therapies. In a statement, Dr. Marks attacked Robert F. Kennedy Jnr., Health and Human Services Secretary, writing “It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.” This was a smoke screen.

The truth of the matter is rather different. To put it bluntly, Marks was sacked. During the pandemic, Marks overrode safety concerns expressed by senior members of his staff and granted emergency approval for COVID-19 vaccines. He also spearheaded the drive to approve COVID-19 vaccines for children. Marks is not actually a vaccinologist, yet he was overriding the advice of staff more qualified than himself. He went further, in 2021 he ousted Dr. Gruber and Dr. Krause, the top scientists at the Office of Vaccine Research, due to “intransigence” of these real vaccine experts to not ram through the approval of COVID-19 vaccines. Drs. Gruber and Krause had voiced concerns that they needed more time to understand the safety of the vaccine especially as it relates to inflammation of the heart, now a well known and accepted toxicity of the COVID-19 vaccines. 

It went wider than that, using its masterly grasp of understatement, the Times article admitted “[Marks] had come under criticism for being overly generous to companies that sought approvals for therapies with mixed evidence of a benefit.’ In fact, Marks had routinely approved gene products which had failed trials and which had shown a high risk of product failure and/or adverse effects. In other words, Marks was well known at the agency for cutting safety corners in a way that would benefit pharmaceutical/biotech companies and/or facilitate the political agenda of the Biden administration. Marks approved the use of COVID-19 vaccines for children despite the known fact that children have an extremely low risk of serious health effects of COVID-19 infection and yet a known significant increased risk of serious vaccine related toxicity.

Among other cases, Marks approved muscular dystrophy drug ELEVIDYS which had failed to reach a patient benefit threshold and caused liver failure in 22% of recipients and a death. He also approved Alzheimer’s treatment ADUHELM against the strident objections of his staff and advisory board, a drug with a clear lack of efficacy which carried risk of serious toxicity including brain swelling and bleeding that could be life threatening. Marks’ approval of ADUHELM was subsequently rescinded and a congressional inquiry found there were ‘unusually close’ interactions with Biogen, the drug’s developer.

The significance of Marks’ sacking needs to be understood. Under US law vaccine manufacturers enjoy freedom from any liability if a vaccine is approved for emergency use. That immunity lapses when the vaccine is included on the adult vaccine register, but is reinstated if the vaccine becomes part of the childhood vaccine schedule. Marks’ personal decisions at the FDA, against the advice of agency experts, have effectively shielded COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers from liability.

We can now turn to the Gene Technology Bill currently before Parliament here in New Zealand. The Bill appoints a Regulator to take decisions approving biotechnology experimentation, GM crops, biotech medicines and procedures, etc. A position not dissimilar to that of Marks at the FDA. The Bill also includes Clause 187—Protection from Civil and Criminal Liability which shields the regulator, his staff, employees, advisors, etc from any liability for their decisions. In effect, the Bill is introducing a system that is wide open to the type of manipulation that Marks undertook at the FDA

At the weekend, we released an article entitled “Weight loss drug enables you to swap one disease for dozens of others“. The day after our release the Trump administration announced the cancellation of Medicare funding for weight loss drugs, apparently in response to the high rate of side effects. In complete contrast and against the run of evidence, we reported that Wegovy has just been approved in New Zealand for weight loss despite the growing international record of serious side effects. New Zealand Associate Health Minister David Seymour MP commented that he wants to hurry up the approval of new drugs. Opening our regulators to the kind of pressure that the Biden administration put on the FDA which led to the deadly fiascos overseen by Marks. 

The New Zealand Gene Technology Bill sets out the most permissive biotechnology regime in the world. The net effect of clauses in the Gene Technology Bill and ramped up political pressure will be to bypass standard precautionary drug safety principles and hurry the approval and use of unsafe ineffective drugs. A repeat of pandemic policy decisions taken by poorly informed politicians, their advisors and medical authorities. No wonder they want to include a clause in the Gene Technology Bill freeing them from any civil or criminal liability. We are really curious how our politicians managed to get their head into a space where they boast they are improving public health, yet all those involved need a blanket protection from any liability whatsoever?

The Bill before Parliament is no routine piece of legislation, it deals with the deregulation of experiments which alter the foundation of life. The Bill is so permissive that a great many types of biotech experiments using CRISPR gene editing are being automatically waved through without even having to pass the desk of the regulator. In addition, products and procedures approved by overseas regulators are mandated for approval here in New Zealand, no questions asked. 

There is a very big problem with this approach. CRISPR gene editing is not working in the way that was anticipated ten years ago when there was talk of it tackling society’s biggest killers: cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes. But despite billions of dollars, dozens of startup launches, and some advances, that dream feels further away than ever, reports the biotech and pharma business news site Endpoints News. In fact scientists ignored early warning signs that were reported in Nature as far back as 2018 when authors Michael Kosicki, Kärt Tomberg and Allan Bradley delivered their warning in unmistakable terms:

“In the clinical context of editing many billions of cells, the multitude of different mutations generated makes it likely that one or more edited cells in each protocol would be endowed with an important pathogenic lesion. Such lesions may constitute a first carcinogenic ‘hit’ in stem cells and progenitors, which have a long replicative lifespan and may become neoplastic with time.”

“We found that changes in the DNA have been seriously underestimated before now,” Bradley, a professor at Britain’s Wellcome Sanger Institute, told Reuters. “And anyone thinking of doing this in humans should proceed with great caution.”

Instead of heeding the warnings, scientists went ahead and facilitated a truly reckless era of experimentation that initiated a global pandemic.

Our genes form an information system which reaches back through the generations into the far distant past, back to the beginning of time. All of life’s lessons learned are stored in our genes, those that involve health, intelligence, food, happiness, the whole of life as we know it. Lines of ancestry are threads of knowledge. Thrown together in society they form the shared knowledge base of our civilization. Genes are not the kind of history found in dusty libraries, but a living presence preserving and promoting life utilising the life lessons of the past. Genes also reach down their roots into the smallest time and distant scales of the universe, they are continuously connected with the universal laws of nature promoting Cosmic evolution. Because of this, genes are not just personal, they are part of an interconnected network of information that supports life as we know it.

Thus genes form a Cosmic switchboard connected to the ocean of natural law—the knowledge base of the universe. Performing untold trillions of actions with a frequency and reach right down to the infinitesimal Planck scale of 10^-43 seconds and 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. Beyond that even, into the self-referral structure of the unified level of natural law, which is identical with the field of consciousness.

Knowledge is structured in consciousness. Society is a vast play of knowledge taking place within the unbounded ocean of consciousness. Thus our genes play a crucial role in enabling us to enjoy the support of the ultimate reality.

Knowledge has organising power. Genetic structures, being the means to connect with knowledge, have organising power. Genetic sequences are not static, it is their nature to perform actions. Once edited, our past is rewritten, novel genetic sequences can initiate entirely alien processes. Edited genetic structures are outside of the evolved web of genetic knowledge integrated across history, time and space and connected with universal consciousness. Thus they can destabilise reality. During the last five years we have had a brief glimpse into the power of genetic experimentation to undermine human health and civilisation. The chaotic state of the world today is no accidental happenstance. It is just the beginning of a war on humanity.

This is a war like no other ever imagined. This is not the type of global war we have been fearing, but something more insidious and even more pervasively harmful.  As we have reported, for years public relations firms working for pharmaceutical giants and biotech startups have been preparing the ground, deceiving the public into thinking that this is a war on ill health and a gateway to a bright future of long life and happiness. To achieve this deception, it has been necessary to paper over the cracks by hiding the published scientific facts and ignoring the abject failures. It has been necessary to stifle open debate, as Dr Peter Marks did at the FDA, as our government working with the media did in New Zealand, as the medical authorities achieved by silencing doctors asking questions.

The New Zealand Gene Technology Bill opens the door wide. Whether the people promoting this Bill know what they are doing or not, their actions are challenging the rule of natural law, the great Cosmic order which begins with universal consciousness which is a most treasured experience and highest attainment of human life. No wonder they want protection from civil and criminal liability. But there is another kind of law—Cosmic law. One thing leads to another, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. As you sow so shall you reap. The destruction of the delicately balanced web of genetic order will inevitably initiate a downward spiral for those who participate. This is a time to hold onto the self. A time to hold on to natural law. A time to remember the lessons of the past. A time to value cultural and traditional knowledge. A time to eat wisely. A time to speak up before it is too late. Not a time to leap off the edge into the unknown darkness below.

Some people are thinking the Gene Technology Bill can be adjusted. Perhaps a few more safeguards or restrictions on open field crops. They are imagining this as just a routine piece of legislative business. This is not the case, it is a bridge too far deep into enemy territory. Closer examination of the promised benefits and faux scientific justifications shows them to be out of date, misleading or just plain false. The Gene Technology Bill needs to be abandoned.

On the so-called 5th anniversary of COVID-19 (which evidence shows actually started circulating around five and half years ago), two big German newspapers—Zeit and Süddeutsche Zeitung— have broken an important story.. Back in early 2020 the German intelligence service concluded with 80-95% accuracy that COVID-19 resulted from a lab leak at Wuhan, but Chancellor Angela Merkel deliberately buried the report as did her successor Olaf Scholz. The German public and members of parliament were left completely in the dark. The media brainwashed the public with the misleading zoonotic or ‘natural origin’ fables that Anthony Fauci and Peter Daszak constructed and widely circulated to hide the outcome of their gain of function experimentation. The government stood silently by and labeled those asking questions about COVID-19 origins ‘conspiracy theorists’. Why?

Over here in little New Zealand (appropriately enough on the night of a total lunar eclipse) we are still left in total COVID-19 darkness. We are being incorrectly informed by our government, supported by a compliant and spineless media, that biotechnology experimentation is a slam dunk—completely safe, an economic miracle, a public health panacea and something to enthusiastically emulate. Apparently, our government is blind to the now glaringly obvious and scientifically verified risks of biotechnology experimentation. 

Starting at the lab origin of COVID-19, it is only a very short step to ask some difficult questions about what biotech scientists are getting up to and why. A paper published in Nature in February 2025 entitled “A humanized NOVA1 splicing factor alters mouse vocal communications” might give us a heads up. Twelve researchers undertook the work at the Rockefeller University NY financially supported by NIH (in other words it was funded by the US government). In brief, using CRISPR editing, a human amino acid variant of a gene NOVA1 was spliced into mice who then made slightly higher pitched distress calls than their unaltered cousins when separated from their mothers. Adult genetically altered male mice also made slightly different sounds when meeting females.

Join with me in feeling lucky we are not mice. However, if the New Zealand government has its way we might just become mice, metaphorically speaking. The Gene Technology Bill currently before the New Zealand parliament contains no red lines, leaving nothing off the table when it comes to juggling genes. I suppose New Zealand biotech ‘experts’ are getting their unfortunate mice into line ready for the big day when they can torture them however they wish. I use the word ‘torture’ deliberately, no other word fits. Or is it the other way around? Are there some genes that scientists are itching to put into humans to see what happens—how loud we squeak when separated from our mothers or go on our first date?

If you are a farmer seduced by government promises of opportunities and profits, why not talk to your brothers and sisters overseas, some of whom have been on the receiving end of biotech crops for decades? An article published in the journal Science in 2025 is entitled “Too much of a good thing: Lessons from compromised rootworm Bt maize in the US Corn Belt“. It details substantial economic losses for farmers building up over 12 years as rootworm pests develop resistance to the Bt corn that was designed to eliminate them.

As I presented dire research findings about biotechnology risks to the Health Select Committee on Monday, I was met with the three monkeys—see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. It seems that real scientific assessment is off the menu at parliament in favour of seductive glossy brochures from vested interests which promise the earth. In fact, published studies indicate the Gene Technology Bill setting us all up for failure, disappointment and disease.

I am beginning to get a strange feeling that our government doesn’t really appreciate us or care very much about what happens to us. This week the government turned to Australia to supply school lunches, flown across the Tasman, as if local Kiwi businesses can’t be trusted to cook for our kids. The Gene Technology Bill will complete the process for adults and children alike. As we have been reporting, it will hand over our menus for breakfast, lunch and dinner to mega corporations supplying the ingredients from the sludge of their heavily contaminated bioreactors.

On the other hand, in a strange and reassuring way I am feeling encouraged by all of the madness we see around us. There was a time when we considered ourselves dancing outside the fire circle trying to attract attention, but now we see that holding onto the truth brings us ever closer to the power centre of the cosmos. In contrast, it is the government that has lost its way, holding on to disproven ideologies, grasping at straws, promoting policies that don’t make any sense or address ordinary everyday needs. The true nature of administrative power is truth, intelligence and joy—these are qualities we can all aspire to.

Isn’t it about time the public are considered old enough to know the truth about COVID-19’s origins and all that that entails? Whatever our government imagines or secretly plots for us, the truth will come out as it did yesterday in Germany. You can see it is happening already, as the truth begins to dawn, a period of uncertainty ensues, then reality sets in. The whole society is changing now. Don’t be put off by the confusion, people are waking up. Hold on, a lot has to be renewed. Don’t lose heart, write to your MP, tell your local supermarket about the need for full disclosure labelling. No government has the right to take away our food choices. To manage these uncertain times we must hold a steady and truthful course, there is a growing body of science on our side and a lot of time-honoured wisdom to remind us that in the final analysis truth alone triumphs.

The following is the text of our oral submission to the New Zealand Health Select Committee on the Gene Technology Bill made on Monday. We were allowed 10 minutes. The NZ First MP asked a sympathetic question at the conclusion, enabling me to finish with some unscripted points about the threat to small farmers.

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“Good Morning and thank you committee members. Since the formulation of the Bill some key scientific papers have been published which upend its fundamental assumptions. I’d like to briefly summarise these in three points before taking questions.

1. SAFETY The Bill contains an assumption of safety which is not justified by research results. It fails to take account of the possible causes of the rapidly growing incidence of serious illnesses which are overwhelming health systems around the world including ours.

A study published in the journal Food Chemistry: Molecular Sciences in 2025 is entitled “Metagenomics-based tracing of genetically modified microorganism contaminations in commercial fermentation products. It found that residual genetically modified microorganism (GMM) contamination is present in virtually all food processing products produced via batch fermentation—the biotech industry standard, which then end up in most of our processed supermarket foods. It found the alarming presence of cell division promoters, antibiotic genes and antibiotic resistant genes in all enzymatic products it tested. Inevitable GMM contamination is currently classified as ‘residue’ which does not need any identification on labels because it is not an ‘ingredient’. A double speak continued by the Bill which side steps this recently discovered potentially serious health issue and fails to safeguard or inform the public

Faced with such alarming findings, why would we want to pass a Gene Technology Bill, which allows even more tinkering with traditional foods without any red lines or discussion of labelling, traceability, specific safety testing procedures, or liability for inevitable mistakes?

2. ACCURACY The Bill is predicated on an assumption of CRISPR accuracy which is outdated and contrary to recent research results and fundamental science

Most of us imagine that genes are as solid as the world around us, made up of distinct objects which can be swapped if one becomes defective. Rather like changing a tyre when you have a puncture. This fails to distinguish between genetic structure and function. The very very small time and distance scales of DNA are completely foreign to our waking world of experience. We have just 20,000 genes controlling trillions of functions. A study entitled “Gene editing of NCF1 loci is associated with homologous recombination and chromosomal rearrangements” has revealed that at this scale many genes appear almost indistinguishable from one another or homologous. As a result, research shows CRISPR gene scissors begin to cut up, rearrange or delete genetic chromosomal structures which were not the intended target, causing potential health problems. This is not because CRISPR has been incorrectly programmed, but rather the inevitable result of a fundamental property of micro matter.

3. EFFICACY The Bill and its surrounding PR contains an assumption of efficacy which is not justified by research results

According to the journal Nature, CAR T cell therapy costs about NZ$820,000 per shot. 85% of patients go into initial remission but only just over half of them are still in remission at the end of the first year. A TEAM of attending well qualified and highly paid doctors is needed to work out how far to push treatment without triggering potentially fatal cytokine release syndrome. Putting the cost beyond the reach of our public health service.

New Zealand has the second fastest growth rate of bowel cancer in the world, just behind Iceland.

As that is the case, shouldn’t our government be prioritising an education programme on lifestyle, exercise, healthy diets, fresh foods, etc.? The costs are very low and the research effect sizes of such programs are very large, around 27% risk reduction for colorectal cancer. It doesn’t stop with cancer, benefits affect the entire health spectrum including 30% risk reduction for heart disease for example. Also reduced incidence of inflammatory and autoimmune conditions

In another gene therapy case reported by Nature, Vertex Pharmaceuticals has revealed the full results of a clinical trial of beta thalassemia and sickle cell anaemia patients treated with a CRISPR-Cas9-based therapy which the popular press has wrongly hailed as a successful gene therapy ‘cure’. In all, 22 patients have received the treatment so far at a cost of NZ$5 million per patient all of whom initially experienced increased levels of haemoglobin and reduced pain. But after one year, only five of the patients had any residual beneficial effects. Vertex paid an additional NZ$85 million in patent fees for the licence to use CRISPR gene editing techniques.

In summary: health improvements are patchy at best, the costs are astronomical and unaffordable, the side effects are very serious and any benefits mostly don’t last very long.

Our overall conclusion: Gene technology remains an experimental intervention that is known to have a high risk profile for human health and food. The genes in our first cell contain the seed of everything that we value in life—intelligence, happiness, health. No one has any idea how genes support human consciousness, the defining characteristic of life. Modify genes at your peril. Gene modification cannot be contained, recalled or remediated. The biotechnology industry needs more strict regulation, not less as the Bill proposes. Thank you.”

Our Reflection after the hearing: The Limits to Power and the Law of the Land

It was a curious process, where the committee members sat passively. They were not required to answer questions or explain their reasons for overriding the public interest and precautionary science. It is extraordinary that the government believes it can adulterate our food choices without any requirement to inform the public what is being done and to what.

There is a relationship that we all naturally enjoy with nature, this is not something that should be usurped by ignorant power seekers. Food is a gift of God to man, or if you prefer it, a gift of the laws of nature—the sun, the soil, the rains and all that this entails. Our relationship with the land is a sacred trust of care and mutual enrichment. There are countless trillions of embodied creatures or organisms with whom we share the land, the early morning light, life giving showers, and the spring winds.

As Robert Frost famously wrote in his poem the The Gift Outright:

“Something we were withholding made us weak
Until we found out that it was ourselves
We were withholding from our land of living,
And forthwith found salvation in surrender.”

The government is about to make an extraordinary misstep, casting aside natural justice and assuming control of our relationship with Nature. They are making an enemy of nature, seeking to alter that which keeps us alive and well. If this goes ahead, time will tell us soon enough we have taken a wrong turn from which there is no safe road to return home. The pandemic should have taught us: there is a collective responsibility to oppose the deregulation of biotechnology, otherwise we will collectively suffer the consequences.

This article has two parts: the problem and our response.

Authoritative mathematical biologist Alex Washburne has published an article on Substack entitled “The Strength of Evidence for a Lab Origin—Probable cause, preponderance of evidence, and beyond reasonable doubt“. This is essential reading for anyone still unsure about how COVID-19 originated. Washburne demolishes the so-called evidence for a zoonotic origin with mathematical precision and then builds the case step by step against the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Eco-Health Alliance, including publishing the emails which document their efforts to cover their tracks.

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He manages to do so with a dash of ironic humour saying for example: “It just so happens that there is a bat sarbecovirus lab in the same city where this bat sarbecovirus emerged; the specificity of the connection between the virus that emerged and the lab is so high it’s like finding a tiger roaming around the town in walking distance from a big cat sanctuary in Germany, so knowing there is a sanctuary drawing in big cats from around the world provides critical context for the big cat roaming the streets nearby.”

The research being carried out at Wuhan funded by the US NIH was unethical, illegal, and obviously dangerous. Particularly striking was the determination to push way beyond the boundaries of any regulation or common sense in order to create deadly pathogens capable of undermining the genetic foundations of life—science fiction become reality. In this light, any suggestion that the biotech industry can regulate itself or control rogue operators is absurd. Yet this will be the likely outcome of the New Zealand Gene Technology Bill currently being rushed through the Parliamentary Select Committee process.

The Health Select Committee received over 15,000 submissions, but starting this week, wrapping up in just half a dozen days, the Committee will compile its assessment in order to fulfil the government’s timeline for the Bill to become law and operational by September. To speed up the process, the Committee has divided itself into two, meaning that no single Committee member will have heard all the 400 short oral submissions and none would have had any time to take account of the views of the 15,000 submitters.

The Bill will radically alter our food system, agriculture, economy and medicine, injecting genetic modification into every area of daily life, yet the word‘ label’ appears zero times in the Bill. In other words, we will be prevented by the deficiencies of law from knowing what is happening. The obvious context is our overwhelmed and failing health system alongside five years of a pandemic, which, according to the latest data, resulted from unfettered biotechnology experimentation.

We don’t have to look very far beyond our nose to get a sense of unlabelled biotechnology. A New York Times article from this morning is entitled “She’s a Foot Soldier in America’s Losing War With Chronic Disease“. It details the devastating health effects and decreased life expectancy caused by the US processed food industry which is dominated by genetically modified processes and products. Apparently our government is hoping that the Gene Technology Bill will smooth the way for a trade deal with America. If you want to know what that means, read about the effect of the UK-US trade deal in an article in the UK Daily Telegraph “The Americanisation of our diets is destroying our health – and it’s not just about size“.

So how did it come about that our government feels empowered to degrade our food system without adequate consultation or any provision for labelling to support consumer choice? The answer possibly lies in one word—technology. Technology is billed as an escape from the drudgery of tasks, but is it dumbing us all down, draining the joy out of life, limiting our options and exposing us to unannounced health risks?

The technological revolution has heralded a massive decline in literacy, numeracy, and craft skills. Rather than an escape from drudgery, many are too busy to enjoy quality family time, too poor to afford housing and too distracted to appreciate the direction we are heading in. In this situation it is no wonder that the political establishment are taking over the decisions we used to take for ourselves. On the agenda now is what we have for breakfast, dinner and supper.

But it doesn’t stop there, the bio-technocrats are not just suggesting but are busy creating medical interventions which will affect everyone of us whether we like it or not. This has been going on for some time under the radar. A 2020 article in New Scientist was entitled “We now have the technology to develop vaccines that spread themselves“. It advocated radical experimentation under the banner “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. As it has turned out, despite the focus of the entire biotech industry for five years, they still haven’t discovered any prevention or cure for the COVID-19 pathogen they created. But that hasn’t stopped the continuing development of self-spreading vaccines, aerial spray vaccine delivery systems and food plants that vaccinate consumers.

But it doesn’t stop there, A UK Ministry of Defence paper developed jointly with Germany is entitled “Human Augmentation—The Dawn of a New Paradigm. A Strategic Implications Project“. The paper foresees “an impending biotech revolution that will radically transform every aspect of our lives”. It says “We must begin to understand the implications of these changes and shape them to our advantage now, before they are thrust upon us.” In other words, we are faced with a tsunami of biotechnology including bioweapons, and the military advises we should get involved in developing even more powerful ones ourselves. As if sitting on the beach facing an approaching tsunami, the best strategy is to create an even bigger wave ourselves, rather than simply running to higher ground.

What are we facing?

Here in New Zealand, the government is poised to appoint a regulator within the next six months who will oversee the introduction of biotechnology into every area of our lives:

• The Gene Technology Bill contains no red lines. It doesn’t prohibit gain of function research or germline genetic engineering. It doesn’t say anything about transhumanism, bioweapons or airborne vaccination, but it does REQUIRE the regulator to approve biotechnologies used overseas, (yes it is mandated, New Zealand will have no choice). 
• It contains a presumption of safety for which there is no evidence, or rather for which there is abundant evidence to the contrary showing great danger. 
• It strikes no note of economic caution, despite multiple countries among our trading partners restricting GMOs. Moreover it opens New Zealand up to massive predatory profit taking by overseas corporations who hold the patents on crops and gene editing techniques.
• It contains nothing whatsoever to suggest that consumers have a right to know what they are eating. 
• It glosses over the appalling track record of adverse events associated with gene editing of animals and humans. 
• It completely ignores the well documented and researched inherently mutagenic outcomes of CRISPR gene editing, instead opting to describe the results as equivalent to natural products in no need of regulation. 
• It fails to address the genetically modified microorganism (GMM) contamination of batch fermentation production routinely used by the gene industry to produce everything from foods to medicine. 

In short, Parliament has failed to do its homework, yet in the space of a few short hours spread over next week, with little or no opportunity to cross examine or challenge the motives and intentions of Parliament, with little time to cite or explore published research, it is proposed to pass the Gene Technology Bill into the statute books unquestioned by a sleeping media.

The regulator, whoever they are, (probably singularly unqualified to protect the public), will know what to do to please the government, which is to wield a rubber stamp and wave the traffic through. If successful, no doubt Luxon will hold up his copy of this worthless and destructive piece of legislation and declare “Economic Prosperity in Our Time” or hollow and deceptive words to that effect. History, if there still is one left after he has finished, will judge him and his ilk very harshly.

What are the alternatives?

We have already published a cautionary tale of GM food here in New Zealand and listed what to avoid. We have encouraged changes in lifestyle, exercise and pointed to the need to rediscover and honour traditional spiritual practices. The challenges that we face result from the distorted and incomplete understanding of biotechnology. To combat this we need to understand more fully what is at stake and find the fulcrum points where we can leverage a deeper understanding.

There are now 3,400 writers on the Substack platform who are expressing concerns about COVID-19 and genetic vaccines. GLOBE and the Hatchard Report are among the very few calling for an outright ban on biotechnology experimentation. We are doing so for one very simple and entirely cogent reason: no one in the field of biotechnology understands how genetics supports the expression of consciousness. In other words, the vast and growing biotech industry is prepared to put our capacity for awareness and self-reflection, the defining characteristic of life, at risk for the sake of a failed paradigm.

GLOBE and the Hatchard Report are going a step further than calling for a ban by offering an alternative paradigm. Recently in September 2024, eminent historian William Dalrymple published a book “The Golden Road—How Ancient India Transformed the World”. His fascinating study documents how our number system, architectural ideas, our scientific perspective and our early medical knowledge originated in the Indian subcontinent and slowly made its way to the West via the Greeks, the Egyptians and the Arab world. With the peaceful Christian takeover of Toledo in 1085, the vast libraries of works translated from the original Sanskrit and studied by the Arabs, Egyptians and Greeks became available to the monastic centres of Christian learning. One outcome was the blossoming of the western scientific method over a period of a thousand years.

Our objective rational scientific method has now brushed up against the field of consciousness in physics, biology and medicine. In doing so, it has begun to lose its way, distorting and mutating something we have yet to understand. Something absolutely essential to knowledge is missing—the knower, individual consciousness, our identity.

To make sense of the quantum reality they were discovering at the start of the 20th century, leading physicists referred to the Vedic Literature:

• Niels Bohr found connections between the Vedic concept of interconnectedness and the quantum idea of entanglement. 
• Werner Heisenberg was fascinated by the Upanishadic concept of the observer influencing reality, which aligns with the observer effect in quantum mechanics. 
• Erwin Schrödinger considered the Upanishads to be the most accurate perception of reality and heavily incorporated their ideas into his theories. 
• Robert Oppenheimer was deeply impacted by the Bhagavad Gita, particularly its themes of responsibility and the consequences of action, especially in relation to his work on the atomic bomb. 
• Einstein expressed a fascination for Upanishadic philosophy and was familiar with the Bhagavad Gita—a pocket book of Vedic wisdom.

The influence of the Veda and Vedic literature, which Dalrymple documents, took root not just across the sub continent but soon extended from ancient Persia to Egypt, Greece, Rome and the Caucasus mountains in the West and to the East as far as Thailand, Cambodia, Bali and Japan. Although widely revered, the Veda is not a religion, rather a vast body of scientific knowledge that has at its heart the understanding and investigation of consciousness, but this deeper aspect of Indian culture had limited impact on the West.

The quote that “war begins in the mind of man” used in the United Nations charter is originally attributed to Atharva Veda, a branch of the Vedic Literature. The Vedic endeavour to comprehend and develop the full scope of the human mind is also a quest to avert human conflict before it arises. We discuss the science behind this in our book Your DNA Diet, available from Amazon as a Kindle.

Now might be a time to dig deeper into the roots of ancient traditions around the world for the vital clues that could avert the looming disaster of biotechnology. There are some scientists who are already taking up this challenge with some success. A study published in Brain, Behavior and Immunity in 2023 entitled “Transcendental Meditation practitioners show reduced expression of the Conserved Transcriptional Response to Adversity” has investigated altered expression of 200 genes associated with a healthy response to stress, adversity and disease. This included down-regulated pro-inflammatory transcription and up-regulated Interferon Response Factors.

Many diseases can be aggravated by inflammation, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, arthritis, asthma, inflammatory bowel disease, mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety, and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

Interferon is a protein that helps the body’s immune system fight infection and disease. It’s produced by white blood cells and other cells in the body. Interferons activate immune cells, such as natural killer cells and macrophages. They can limit viral replication in infected cells and viral spreading in non-infected cells. They can help the immune system recognise and attack viruses, bacteria, or cancer, preventing growth and division.

A follow up study published in Biomolecules in 2025 found results consistent with reductions in biomarkers of chronic stress and biological age in long-term meditation practitioners. They are also consistent with results from a previous study suggesting that meditation practice lowers energy consumption or leads to more efficient energy metabolism.

Meditation is not a belief system or a religion, techniques have been known and honoured in every country. They have formed a key part of cultural history around the world. The fact that TM beneficially alters gene expression points to the existence of a non-invasive technology of consciousness accessible for anyone. At this point in time, meditation is an opportunity to move away from the depressing cycle of diet-induced chronic disease and drug-initiated adverse effects which are overwhelming our health system, affecting people of all ages including the young and working adults. Hundreds of scientific studies support meditation’s profound benefits for health and longevity.

These are not experimental results without a basis in scientific theory. A book by Tony Nader MD PhD, compiled with the guidance of renowned exponent of ancient Vedic wisdom Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, is entitled “Human Physiology, Expression of Veda and the Vedic Literature. Modern Science and Ancient Vedic Science Discover the Fabrics of Immortality in the Human Physiology” now published by Motilal Barnarsidass.

It locates a sequential self-unfoldment in the sounds and the gaps between sounds which automatically leads to the diversified structure of the branches of the Vedic Literature. Nader and his scientific collaborators working with Maharishi were able to draw an exact parallel between this structure and the sequential unfoldment of human physiology starting with the first cell. Their 600 page book details the mathematical correspondence between the sequences of sounds and gaps in the forty branches of Vedic Literature and the structure and functions of human physiology. It dazzles and astounds with its breadth of scholarship and deep insight. It can fill huge gaps in our current understanding of genetics.

Our connection with the Cosmos has been there all along since ancient times, remembered by our great cultural, philosophical and religious traditions, but like the foundation of a building it has remained largely out of sight in daily life or even forgotten. Now the connection is in need of repair, it is the time for revival of knowledge, an expansion of our understanding and the unfolding of our latent potential. In this we can glimpse a whole new horizon of knowledge which is capable of enriching every aspect of life.

The government is a reflection of the collective consciousness of the nation, bemoaning the shortcomings of the government is just whistling in the wind unless and until our education system is able to develop the full potential of the individual, mind and body, consciousness and physiology.