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From that Herald story:
Skegg says far from making significant new discoveries about Green's work and the inquiry it provoked, Bryder has recycled a whole raft of arguments raised around the time of the inquiry, thoroughly discussed, and found to be invalid.
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"Historians have a professional duty to produce balanced and fair accounts," says Professor Barbara Brookes, head of the department of History and Art History at Otago University.She says Bryder's book is based on selective evidence of the thousands of pages of written material surrounding the Cartwright Inquiry.
"Professor Bryder has chosen to tell her particular story of good men wronged. She has reversed what she sees as the Coney story as one of good women wronged."
Brookes, who teaches the history of medicine at Otago, says it's good to reappraise the past from different angles. But Bryder's view that Green was merely doing his best for his patients was rehearsed fully at the Cartwright Inquiry. "It seems odd to then present this as a new angle - especially since journalist Jan Corbett, apparently an important source for Bryder, more important indeed than local medical experts, had already raised these issues, and had been rebutted."
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Not so much ignoring as mislead. I draw the conclusion that one can not trust early media coverage for even the most basic facts these days.
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I read it as gently ironic. None taken.
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Rhighto
Nice. That you, Casserly?
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I want whatever Mark has smuggled into his apartment.
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Insufficiently motivated by Timaru. However, there are a couple of suitably connected folk hereabouts.
(candyman)
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I think we could offer more than an 'h' to the 'brown faces'.
For sure. And I need to hear more about the whole flag issue. Seen some saying the Maori Party are being bought off with symbolic baubles but that often seems like sour grapes from Labourites, without more context.
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our nation's name is a mispelling of Zeeland
The perils of having more than one thread about the same topic.
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Even if it were 53%, democracy is also mob rule apparently.
Mr Laws said both names had co-existed since 1991 - neither the council nor the community had sought to declare one choice as the "winner" and the other as the "loser".
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