We can forget about advancing a truthful science if we cannot evolve morally.
Historically the sciences have always progressed faster than our morality. From the churche’s slow adjustment to a Copernican world to...
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Theo Holtzhausen
- Jun 26, 2022
- 5 min
HAS HEALTHCARE BECOME IMMORAL?
About the author: Dr Theo D Holtzhausen (BVSc PGDIpIntnlHlth) is a practicing vet and author Spheres of Perception ETHICAL CHALLENGES...
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Theo Holtzhausen
- May 7, 2022
- 6 min
Time to interconnect is running out unless we change.
In the essay ‘The Critic as Artist’ (1891) the late Oscar Wilde wrote, that ‘to do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the...
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Theo Holtzhausen
- Mar 20, 2022
- 3 min
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Theo Holtzhausen
- Feb 27, 2022
- 1 min
The duty we should all fight for.
The human intellect—designed to improve our chances of survival where individual gain is of utmost importance. This rather simplistic...
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Theo Holtzhausen
- Jan 23, 2022
- 2 min
HOW TO SURVIVE MISINFORMATION.
Don't be a Cynic, be Wise! It has become inarguable that we live in an era of misinformation. Even the diehards now must accept that most...
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Theo Holtzhausen
- Jan 1, 2022
- 5 min
WHEN THE TRUTH BECOMES HARD TO FIND
AND conspiracy theories become more threatening than some of the balderdash coming from prominent political and business leaders, how can...
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Theo Holtzhausen
- Oct 10, 2021
- 1 min
A Benevolent Evolution:
After almost 2 years in China it is good to be back in New Zealand with this short blog message: To my small circle of readers. Perhaps...
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Theo Holtzhausen
- Aug 20, 2021
- 1 min
China today.
Currently in Xinjiang province in China. Almost impossible to enter here, articles and photos to follow over weeks to come. Foreigners...
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Theo Holtzhausen
- May 14, 2021
- 26 min
Covid tipped the balance but new science was already redesigning our understanding of morality.
It is important to understand that any attempt to set moral values and ethical rules and then to proceed to enforce them, is as immoral...
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Theo Holtzhausen
- Apr 10, 2021
- 5 min
An evolution that favours moral action more than mere survival and procreation. (5 minute read)
We should all ask ourselves, is our survival and progress not dependent on an interlinked and progressive morality (more so than mere...
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Theo Holtzhausen
- Apr 3, 2021
- 12 min
Time to consider the rights of plants.
https://aeon.co/essays/beyond-the-animal-brain-plants-have-cognitive-capacities-too?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=87a007a27a-EM...
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Theo Holtzhausen
- Mar 21, 2021
- 5 min
The dramatic shift in medicine few know about.
Irrevocably, we have left the era where the main drive of natural science was to break down all lifeforms to their smallest biological...
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Theo Holtzhausen
- Feb 25, 2021
- 9 min
Simple but Wrong, complex but Right:
We live in an era where we have mapped the genome of a growing number of species and can now modify the way they behave. We can blow up the
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Theo Holtzhausen
- Dec 29, 2020
- 1 min
Thoughts...
There is so little consensus about so many issues today, and many appear to be so certain of their own concepts about what now appears to...
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Theo Holtzhausen
- Nov 9, 2020
- 18 min
The Deceptions of our times
Letters from China, Nov 8, 2020 These are indeed unusual and confusing times. Roughly this bafflement has divided people into two groups...
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Theo Holtzhausen
- Jul 22, 2020
- 11 min
Society in trouble.
Disparity as a ‘Moral Disease’, the cure must come from Science: Presentation Theo D Holtzhausen 26/6/2020 (@Global online conference,...
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Theo Holtzhausen
- Apr 9, 2020
- 11 min
Is your Genome being reshaped by Pharmaceuticals and big Industry?Odds are, it is.
Drugs and our genes..
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Theo Holtzhausen
- Jul 2, 2019
- 3 min
Truth or Fake News
WHAT IS THE TRUTH? Truth is the basis for the continuity of life. Without truth there simplify cannot be any workable science, knowledge...
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Theo Holtzhausen
- May 3, 2019
- 5 min
What every practitioner should know.
Two immutable things my mother taught me — kindness and empathy. In memory of my mother, popular loved by all teacher...'what we now know...
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