Look what they have done to us. Don’t be on the wrong side of history. Hear what this doctor has to say with an open heart & an open mind. https://t.co/aMiIls7Ll5

— Lara Logan (@laralogan) August 8, 2026

by Steve Kirsch

Executive summary

The AlterAI analysis concluded: “The question is “does Tylenol increase autism risk in vulnerable children” — and the answer to that is an unambiguous yes.”

The link provides the details and notes, among other things, “Autistic individuals consistently show significantly reduced glutathione levels and impaired redox regulation compared to neurotypical controls. This isn’t a fringe finding — it’s been replicated across multiple studies using different methodologies. The pattern is striking: …”

I confirmed that with Claude just now. Claude wrote: “Broadly, yes — the descriptive part of that claim is accurate and genuinely well-replicated, not fringe.

What’s solidly true: at the group level, autistic children do show reduced glutathione and a shifted redox balance compared to controls, and this has held up across many studies and methodologies. The largest synthesis is a 2020 meta-analysis in Translational Psychiatry pooling 87 studies (about 4,900 ASD vs 4,200 controls). It found consistently lower reduced glutathione (GSH), lower total glutathione, higher oxidized glutathione (GSSG), and a lower GSH/GSSG ratio — the classic signature of oxidative stress and impaired redox regulation. Earlier independent meta-analyses (Frustaci et al. 2012; Main et al. 2012) reached the same conclusion, and it’s been seen in plasma, in immune cells, and — importantly — in postmortem brain tissue (the low glutathione redox status isn’t only a blood phenomenon). So “replicated across multiple studies using different methodologies” is a fair characterization. This is one of the more reproducible biochemical findings in autism research.“

My post asking whether Tylenol was temporally associated with a behavior change

When I asked on r/Autism_Parenting to find out what the prevalence is, I was labelled “a moronic scourge to society” for asking the question. Here’s the post:

Reaction on r/Autism_Parenting to asking the question

Here’s a sample:

Why the moderators removed my post from r/Autism_Parenting

My question was interpreted as “rage bait” and “non established science.”

Established science in their view means “CNN said so” or it’s on the AAP website.

If you try show them the scientific basis for the question, they simply refuse to read it.

They never answer. So basically I’m told my post is non-established science, and when you point out that this is one of the most established links in autism research, they refuse to read the science backing the claim. So you can’t convince them.

What happens if you ask a related question on X

53% of the poll I did on X had a sudden regression.

Yet on r/Autism_Parenting, most appear to believe there is no trigger event and their child was autistic from birth. One parent even claimed to see hand flapping on the ultrasound (which in reality is a subjective interpretation of a neutral biological event, intensified by modern anxieties surrounding neurodevelopment).

Summary

It is interesting that the subset of people who believe the autism narrative have a strong reaction against data gathering on topics that might contradict their beliefs.

Yet those who are skeptical of the autism narrative, have no problem answering any questions.

The bottom line is that the best way to collect objective information on the impact of vaccines, Tylenol, etc. on autism is to get on the intake form of an autism diagnostic clinic.

Anyone know of one who would be open to asking more detailed questions? I asked another parent support group on Reddit if there was such a clinic asking these questions today, and the answer is no, the data isn’t being collected in the very spot it should be collected (from parents, as close as possible to the event).

It seems that a large part of our society doesn’t want to know what causes autism even though their hypothesis is completely inadequate to explain the rise in autism diagnoses.

They are happy believing what they are told.

 By Roger Childs

Upper Hutt City Council voted against any amalgamation plans, and mayor Peri Zee said that the city shouldn’t be forced into a merger against its will. Wellington Scoop, August 7 2026

Local government reform at crunch point

The government obviously feels ‘bigger is better’ in their desire to reform local government across the nation, but not all local body leaders in the Greater Wellington area agree. There are issues like the desire for retaining personal power, vested local interests and geographical features that need to be weighed up.

The Minister coordinating the Head Start reforms, Chris Bishop, while giving some acknowledgment to the views of local interests, will doubtless get his way.

My program

I feel that the lack of geographic contiguity is a key element in making what constitutes the Greater Wellington Regional Council area very different from the Auckland area where all areas are basically contiguous. For me it makes sense, because of the geographical barriers to contacts between the communities within the region — like the Remutakas, Tararuas and Orongorongos, to–

• combine the three Wairarapa local bodies 
• leave Kapiti separate.

My proposal = four local bodies

• combine Wellington and Porirua
• make the Hutt Valley one local body
• combine the three Wairarapa entities
• keep Kapiti like it is.

Obviously, whatever happens, cross-district policy areas related to waterways, coastlines, state and provincial highways, and other infrastructure currently under the aegis of the Greater Wellington Regional Council (GWRC) would continue to operate on a cooperative and consensual basis. Whatever is in the final amalgamation plan, the costs of providing these connection elements and where the finance comes from to pay for them, are critical factors in determining the final model.

Holding on to recently gained power

Not surprisingly the mayors elected to smaller local bodies in 2025 are keen to keep their status, power and significant remuneration. These include Steve Cretney (Carterton), Peri Zee (Upper Hutt) and Janet Holborow (Kapiti). Such small entities are definitely the sort of local government units that the national government wants to eliminate in the Head Start reforms.

Some mayors in the GWRC are on-board with the “super-city” concept that Chris Bishop and his fellow cabinet members want, and this is true of some other regions. The physical divisions however are a factor in causing division elsewhere. We’ll know soon.

The final decisions on how Head Star will play out are not far away.

For those who like to be surrounded by peaceful nature away from the urban scene but still be close to a built up area, Reikorangi not far east of Waikanae fits the requirements.

This 8-hectare (20-acre) property in Rangiora Road is currently on the market — Realtor’s listing

by Wally Richards

SOME GARDENING TIPS

Gardening tips can help make gardening easier, they save you money and time as well as obtain better results. You may like to bookmark/save this article for future reference.

Experienced gardeners learn from each other methods that can create advantages in their gardening endeavors.

Most of the following tips have originally come from other gardeners and I’ve seen the common sense of them; I don’t take credit for all the tips (I am just a knowledge collector and investigator who enjoys sharing what I have learnt.)

Firstly, one must realise that there is a lot of misinformation bandied about, some of which is taken as gospel by novice gardeners to their disadvantage.

Take for instance adding dish washing liquid to a garden spray: it will help spread some types of sprays better over the foliage, but it will also assist the spray to wash off faster in rain or from overhead watering.

 Instead use Wallys Raingard which is a sticker, spreader and rain proofer.

But dish-washing liquid added to water, on the other hand, is good for dry soils or mediums where water will not penetrate.

Add to warm water in a watering can by giving a good squirt of dish washing liquid and the water over a dry area to break surface tension in gardens, lawns and containers.

An old cake of Sunlight soap was used in the past, in boilers for washing clothes (I remember lighting a fire under the copper boiler in the outside laundry and literately boiling soiled clothes to wash them), then using the hand wringer to wring them out of copper into a concrete tub with water that you had added ‘blue’ to (copper hydroxide) then wrung them again before hanging out in the sun to dry. Back then germs did not have a chance, that’s for sure.

Well, after the boiler water cooled one would bucket it out and if you had roses growing you would pour the soapy water over the roses. Because of the fatty acids in the old Sunlight soap, it would kill the soft body aphids.

The same can be done today as an aphid spray by lathering up some yellow bar Sunlight soap (the only one that works) and spraying the aphids with that soapy water.

Garlic sprays favored by organic people do not kill insect pests.

Garlic sprays will, however, disguise the natural smell of a plant making it difficult for a pest to locate if the pest is one which finds its host plant by smell. But the smell does not last especially with rain and the plant is left open to attack.

Wallys Super Pyrethrum can be used with garlic sprays for the killing action as it is a very good natural insecticide; it is a quick kill for the insects that come into contact with it.

The problem is that Pyrethrum is very quickly broken down by UV (in sunlight) and may only be effective for a couple of hours when sprayed during the day (even on a cloudy day).

If on the other hand you spray Pyrethrum at dusk, it will remain effective till sunlight destroys its active ingredients the next day.

Copper sprays are a good protection against diseases such as blight, downy mildew, brown rot, curly leaf, bacterial diseases and citrus diseases.

BUT if you add a spraying oil (Conquer oil) to the copper spray it reduces the effectiveness of the copper, so why waste your time and money?

You often hear advisors saying mix copper and oil together to save you time.

If the two were truly compatible then someone would have introduced a product that already combined the two elements.

The only reason to use a spraying oil is to smother scale insects or thrips in the winter/spring period. If you don’t have scale or thrips, why use the oil?

If you do have scale insects then do a separate oil spray when the copper protection is not needed.

Copper sprays do not protect your plants from diseases such as black spot, powdery mildew, botrytis, rusts, leaf spots and leaf moulds.

You need a sulphur spray for these which will also control spider mites.

There is an advantage in using Wallys Liquid Copper sprays as it does not block up sprays like the powder products do.

You need to use the right protection for each disease; often copper is recommended for rust and black spot, but it does not do much for those diseases.

Instead use potassium permanganate at a quarter teaspoon per litre of water.

I had a call from a lady gardener a while ago who told me that when she lived on a farm, she feed her roses cow manure and had wonderful, healthy roses that never needed spraying.

When she moved to town and started to use water soluble fertilisers and Nitrophoska, her roses started to have problems.

To overcome these problems she was told to use Shield and Super Shield alternatively every 2 weeks. The roses never improved; if fact they got worse because their natural immune system was compromised by the harsh chemicals.

These chemical sprays and fertilisers harm the soil life and as a result affect the natural health of the roses/plants.

The simple answer is to go back to the natural foods like animal manures and watch your roses’ health recover.

You may need to use some natural products such as Wallys Magic Botanic Liquid and Mycorrcin in the meantime while the soil life and worm populations are allowed to build up again.

Herbicides used for weed killing also harm soil life, but busy people who do not have the time to hand weed prefer these quick solutions.

Environment-friendly weed killers such as ammonium sulphamate, or vinegar or cooking oil are a better option.

If you opt to use the conventional chemical herbicides then you can offset the damage by adding either Thatch Busta or Mycorrcin to the spray.

The weed killer will work better and the dying weeds will disappear faster as the products speed up the decay time and feed the soil life.

Raingard has been proven to increase the weed kill by about 50% if added to the herbicide spray.

If you use glyphosate weed killers such as Roundup etc. then add Raingard plus Thatch Busta: you then can halve the amount of glyphosate used.

For example, instead of 10 ml of glyphosate use 5 ml. In fact for many weeds you can come down as low as 2.5 ml.

The less chemicals used the better off everything is including your health and the environment.

Club Root is a bad disease that effects brassicas (cabbages etc.) by distorting the root system.

It is a soil-borne disease that is often introduced into gardens with seedlings and plants grown in contaminated soil. Once you have it, you have a problem growing cabbages etc.

The control is the old Condy’s crystals (potassium permagnate). A quarter teaspoon of potassium permanganate is dissolve in one litre of water along with 3 desert spoons of salt.

This is then added to a further 9 litres of water and you pour one litre of the mix into the planting hole to saturate the soil prior to planting your cabbage etc. Potassium permagnate is available from many garden centres.

When mixing any sprays you should fill the tank of the sprayer to half the required volume of water, mix the concentrate product(s) in a litre of warm water, add this to the tank with the balance of water required.

Always use all the spray made up, wash out the tank and run fresh water through the sprayer. If possible, only use warm water when mixing any sprays, they mix into warm water better than into cold.

Rodney Hide and I did another gardening program during the week. If you want to watch and listen go to —

https://rcr.media/episodes/wednesday-webinars-lifestyle-spring-planting

Phone 0800 466464
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All these events are linked:

The Real New Zealand News

The New Zealand Police Association acting all holier than thou about new Citizens arrest powers. One of their concerns is that police might not be able to attend a citizens arrest in a timely manner. Because they are viewing PDF files? Or persecuting Ms Z for exposing Jevon Mcskimming? Dude have you seen all the [Stuffing] police cars in the station carparks? Dozens of the [Stuffers] in most small cities. [Stuff] knows what they are doing but it’s not real police work. Perhaps some may be planning their next road accident

“The Crimes Amendment Bill has now passed into law. While the New Zealand Police Association supports protections for undercover police officers and increased penalties for assaults on first responders, and acknowledges the focus on addressing coward punches, it strongly opposed the expanded citizens’ arrest and defence of property provisions.

The association’s key concern is that these changes encourage untrained civilians and retailers to intervene in potentially dangerous situations, creating safety risks, uncertainty around the use of “reasonable force”, and practical challenges where police may not be able to respond immediately when a citizen’s arrest is made.

The association’s position throughout the select committee process was that public safety is best served by trained police officers responding to offending, rather than placing retailers and members of the public in harm’s way.

What’s below the tip of the iceberg? The EU has become a dictatorial division of Nato with the same warring, tyranical and hegemonic intentions.