3.142 cheers for autism!

Dr Pippa Mackay explained on Morning Report what this means for the approval of all new medicines: longer delays as Medsafe, which had been anticipating the joint trans-Tasman regulator, struggles to keep up, higher costs, and fewer new medicines approved.

It is the same logic supporting the TB that Jim Anderton shares in his desire to refuse new psychoactives on the market until they are stamped "completely safe for human consumption." I expect there's going to be a big black market in camomile and guarana because of this.

"It's not just peanut safe, it's not just gluten safe, it's... ideologically safe!"

This from a political entity that pontificated on the importance of public safety and environmental safety at all costs during the GE debate.

Indeed, it makes the Greens look like paradoxical peabrains. I fear the GE thing was their bad, barking up the wrong lentil like that.