Wayne Kent

Australians from hantavirus cruise ship to be quarantined near Perth for three weeks Butler: “We also have a responsibility to those passengers to bring them home and to protect them from any risk, no matter how small, of potentially transmitting the virus without knowing it.”

If you trusted "settled science" throughout history, you'd have: - Drunk radioactive water for vitality (1920s) - Had your healthy teeth pulled to cure mental illness (1910s) - Smoked cigarettes for your throat, on doctor's orders (1940s) - Taken heroin for your child's cough (1890s) - Eaten lead paint chips as a calcium supplement (decades of this) - Used asbestos to insulate your child's bedroom (1950s) - Given thalidomide to pregnant women for morning sickness (1960s) - Eaten margarine for your heart (1970s) - Lobotomised your sister for being unhappy (1940s and 50s) - Sprayed DDT on the children in the playground (1950s) - Avoided all fat to lose weight (1990s) - Replaced butter with trans-fat spreads on the doctor's recommendation (1990s) Every generation has its medical catastrophe dressed up as health advice. Endorsed by the experts. Printed in the textbooks. Recommended by your doctor. Featured on the front of the magazines in the waiting room. Ours is seed oils, statins, grain-based diets, ultra-processed convenience food, and the steady chemical maintenance of conditions that better food would resolve in 90 days. Future generations will look back in horror. Just like we look back at radioactive tonics and cigarette prescriptions and wonder how anyone fell for it. The pattern never changes. Only the product on the shelf.