Thanks, Greg, listening now. As a fellow Perth resident who spent the past 3 years watching society lose its collective mind in service to whatever covid spirit-of-the-age subsumed our collective common sense, I’m belatedly grateful to be learning, as with Rebekah, other voices exist that remind me not everyone in WA is a gibbering, docile, compliant fool desperate for validation and approval from tyrants.
Major issue - we need a Science Ombudsman - an undeniably independent one.
I had all these issues with Australia's food regulator FSANZ and GM crops. They failed in multiple places, both science and admin - simple malfeasance - they were audited, but the Auditor General stopped where the science began.
Regulators must use "best available" "Science" but Science is not defined in the legislation. So 'science' evidence is called whatever the world's least ethical companies want to present to our regulators.
Regarding our Regulators, science decisions are called 'whatever they want to decide'. There is no place to take their science decisions.
Thanks, Greg, listening now. As a fellow Perth resident who spent the past 3 years watching society lose its collective mind in service to whatever covid spirit-of-the-age subsumed our collective common sense, I’m belatedly grateful to be learning, as with Rebekah, other voices exist that remind me not everyone in WA is a gibbering, docile, compliant fool desperate for validation and approval from tyrants.
Major issue - we need a Science Ombudsman - an undeniably independent one.
I had all these issues with Australia's food regulator FSANZ and GM crops. They failed in multiple places, both science and admin - simple malfeasance - they were audited, but the Auditor General stopped where the science began.
Regulators must use "best available" "Science" but Science is not defined in the legislation. So 'science' evidence is called whatever the world's least ethical companies want to present to our regulators.
Regarding our Regulators, science decisions are called 'whatever they want to decide'. There is no place to take their science decisions.
Thanks Greg, I’ll repost tomorrow!