Until our irrational fear of quack medicine is cured, there will be no real progress in medicine and the Covid-19 vaccine rollout will continue to be farcical because scientists can’t run the trials they need.

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Nathan Smith is a former business journalist and columnist at the NBR. He also worked as the chief editor at the New Zealand Initiative policy think tank. He is now a freelance writer and copy editor.