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God Does Not Play Dice. Should Doctors?This is a talk that was given for Consilium Scientific today May 18 at the invitation of Leeza Osipenko. Consilium are doing more than anyone to raise questions about the quality of the evidence we have in medicine – in particular around controlled trials. They have had some fabulous contributions in recent months – all […]
Does God Play Dice?I am due to give a lecture on Thursday. This LINK and the Link below will let people sign in for this. If God Doesn’t Play Dice, Should Doctors? This talk presents a new history and analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) making the case that while these can be very helpful, at present they […]
A Shot in the Dark for Pregnant PeopleAs of today, the BMJ have come on board with the contents of this post. There is an article by Hristio Boytchev – see Maternal RSV Vaccines And an editorial by Elizabeth Robinson and Rosalind Smith – Preventing RSV. Britain’s Daily Mail, possible the best newspaper for coverage of health issues, is also now covering […]
Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Suicide NoteRCPsych President responds to newspaper coverage on antidepressants 24 April 2023 Dr Adrian James, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, has written to national newspapers responding to recent articles erroneously linking antidepressants to suicide. Here is the full text of the letter. “I was disappointed to read your article, which has potential to unjustifiably […]
Will Medical Insurers Stop Killing PeopleThe Daily Telegraph in the UK as well as The Daily Mail carried articles this week on a paper in the journal Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry by John Read and colleagues that was based on the work of AntidepAware. For over a decade, AntidepAware has been cataloguing inquests in Britain where it appears likely […]
Twenty Six Words and the InternetArtificial Intelligence, which the Internet of course facilitates, has been one of the main news items lately. We are beginning to panic about the future. A RxISK post We Will Get Fooled Again picks up some of the mounting concern. The last sentence in the text above introducing Imagining the Internet Centre perhaps unintentionally catches […]
Jen and the GenestalkMystery in the Moonlight © Nina Otulakowski March 2023 As she was about to leave the house, Jen’s mother asked her if she was on her way to get vaccinated. Mother, she said, that’s like asking me to take the cow to the market. It’s a bit twentieth century, maybe even nineteenth. You get vaccinia […]
Dos Centavos – Veinte EurosFive years ago, in a riff on the theme of rape, Dos Centavos tackled drug induced harms and the inability of doctors to see, hear or believe the people they put on a poison who end up poisoned. Dos Centavos was not the only post on this unfolding disaster. Many other posts, like A […]
Here We Stand, We Can Do No OtherIn 1517, Martin Luther nailed a defiant proclamation to the door of Wittenberg Cathedral. (See RxISK Reformation Day). The issuing of indulgences, offering easier entries to Heaven, in return for money is popularly represented as being at the heart of the storm that followed. A significant part of the storm came from Luther’s stubbornness – […]
Are Women Better at Everything?I was born in a generation where it was thought women couldn’t drive cars, write fiction, compose music, compete at sports, or should be let work after marriage. Women were emotional, intuitive, erratic but not really capable of full rationality. Ireland in the 1950s may have been a few years behind other parts of Europe […]
The History of a Medical PsychosisThis is a third talk in a series that began with Relationship Based Medicine , continued with Beware of Doctors Bearing Gifts and concludes with this talk, which could called History of a Medical Psychosis, Medical Neoliberalism, Evident versus Evidence Based Medicine, A Lutheran Moment, or Does Objectivity Come from using Chance to Control Bias […]
Military Medicine, Wealth and HealthHere is a first stab at a series of ‘short’ video clips which apparently better for marketing ideas that full length lectures – see below. They are drawn from Beware Doctors Bearing Gifts. Military Medicine – Drugs and Guns The Life Pfizer Want you to Live Wealth Makes Health Medical Neo-Liberalism What Do Women Most […]
Beware Doctors Bearing GiftsThis post gives the content of a public lecture organized by Dan Johnson and Jennifer Williams – see In Memory of Dexter Johnson. The slides and text are below. There are two video recordings – the official version is by Thomas Paul which is White Coat Storm. A just to be safe second version – […]
In Memory of Dexter JohnsonSeveral months ago, I was invited to give a public lecture at the University of Lethbridge. The lecture happened last week. As outlined in the recordings, the initial trigger that brought me to Lethbridge came from Dan Johnson, a Professor there, whose son, Dexter, one of twin boys that Dan had been looking after as […]
Relationship Based MedicineSome months ago I was asked by Paul Rosenfeld, who directs psychiatric training at Mount Sinai Hospital Morningside West, to give a lecture. This took place on January 18. There was a Q and A afterwards. The talk was recorded and the video is here – Relationship Based Medicine. There will be two related talks, […]
YouTube, Podcasts, Blogs and RelatedIn comments after a recent post on rxISK, POGO mentioned that Josef Witt-Doerring has done two interviews with me so far and posted them on his site. The Risks of Antidepressants and Antidepressants and Mass Shootings/Murder Suicide: Update April 19 – Josef has posted a new cast Guidelines and Clinical Practice Demystifying Science An interview […]
We Won’t Get Fooled AgainWe Won’t Get Fooled Again sounds much tamer now than it once did. It was an anthem for the left in 1972 but in this context its not clear who’s anthem it might be. The message of the WHO song is we will get fooled again – see the RxISK We Will Get Fooled […]
Conspiracies, Cock-Ups and HistorySince their introduction around 1800, Vaccines have produced many antibodies – to their very existence. From the start, some people, with good cause, were wary of them – they led to injuries. Governments in contrast have tended to see more benefits than harms and have made vaccination mandatory. Mandatory vaccination has not gone down well. […]
Can You Hear the Suzerain Call?A Suzerain is a Superior Feudal Lord to whom fealty is due – an Overlord. A Suzerain is a dominant power controlling the foreign relations of a vassal state but allowing it sovereign authority in its internal affairs. This post needs to be read in conjunction with Twas the NICE Before Christmas. The leaders of […]
Shots to Save the World and Cock-UpsI am not enthusiastic about advertising books that sing the praises of Operation Warp Speed but it is difficult not to read them if you want to find out what the last three years has been all about. I’ve even donated money to Albert Bourla or Pfizer or his ghostwriter for a copy of Moonshot […]
The Sovereign IndividualTo the Sounds of a Drum © Nina Otulakowski November 2022 Back in the last Millenium, 1997, a book appeared called The Sovereign Individual, written by James Davidson and William Rees-Mogg (yes – the father of Jacob) about the transition to an information age. No longer would we be Numbers, we would be Free Men […]
I Am Not a Number, I Am a Free ManThis post from our Economics Correspondent is closely linked to Remind Your Sister to Get Vaccinated and also Treatment Great, Patient Died. Portmeirion Village in North Wales provided the backdrop for a 1960s Cult Classic series, The Prisoner, starring Patrick McGoohan. McGoohan was ‘Number Six’. At its core was the Prisoner’s unwillingness to be a […]
August is the Cruellest MonthApril is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. T.S. Eliot: The Waste-Land In August 1914, the First World War took shape. In August 1939, the Second World War was in preparation with Germany launching the first attacks on September 1. At […]
COVID and Vaccine: It takes two to TangoThis post follows on from last weeks Vaccine Rag or Vaccine Tango. In the photo above, appropriately in the centre, we have Nicolás Vaquer, the plenipotentiary to Argentina of a Big American Power (Pfizer). On the left of the photo, to the right of the Boss of Bosses, is Dr. Fernando Polack, the head […]
Vaccine Rag or Vaccine TangoStarting in August 2020, i-Trials, a company owned by Fernando Polack, his family, and colleagues, set up to run clinical trials on a commercial basis, recruited 5,768 of the 43,548 volunteers randomized to either BNT162b2 or placebo in what is usually called Pfizer’s trial, although the trial was actually set up, run by and supervised […]
mRNA Boosters and mRNA BoosterismFollowing on Augusto’s efforts to get the Argentine state to look at what happened to him and others in the Pfizer Comirnaty Trial – See News Flash – over the next few weeks, this blog will show some trial results from the Buenos Aires site, which do point to issues that need to be clarified. […]
News Flash – Noticia de última Hora From our South American correspondent For David and Goliath read Augusto Roux and Albert Bourla – Pfizer (who might just be in Trouble) Readers who read earlier posts – Disappeared in Argentina – Fishy Business in the Rio de la Plata – So Long and Thanks for all the Fish – will remember the unsavoury […]
Special Medical Operation Hits FogThis post follows on from The Fog of a Special Medical Operation. Joe Biden says we have to resist Putin’s Special Military Operation. If we don’t resist this SMO, we are told, Putin will use it as a precedent to extend his reach beyond Ukraine. I don’t know enough about all this, but, perhaps just […]
The Fog of a Special Medical OperationWar is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. A sensitive and discriminating judgment is called for; a skilled intelligence to scent out the truth. Carl von Clausewitz Special Medical Operation This is the first of […]
Total Eclipse of the HeartFirst child myocarditis ad I’ve ever seen pic.twitter.com/MtUx2PEqh3 — Anish Koka, MD (@anish_koka) September 17, 2022 Paul Pickerell Imagine you were a healthy public-spirited 49 year-old in Texas. You volunteered to take part in Pfizer’s Covid Vaccine trial. Your medical history was just a touch of hay-fever. You went through all the check-ups to make […]
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