See previous posts - Switch on Anti-Depression Today and So Long and Thanks for all the Serotonin. In response to the recent BMJ editorial on Serotonin and Depression, there were seventeen letters of which three were published, along with my response. These are copied below along with the best letter - by Barney Carroll - which wasn't published. Make your own mind up as to … [Read more...] about 42 or Thereabouts
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Compulsory Vaccination and the Media โ The Australian Experience
Editorial Note: This is another post on the vaccination and censorship theme. Elizabeth Hart's comments, over the past few weeks in response to some of the posts here, on efforts to stifle debate have been balanced and eloquent. Given the growing number of new journalism outlets, such as The Conversation, that portray themselves as tackling cutting edge issues fearlessly but in … [Read more...] about Compulsory Vaccination and the Media โ The Australian Experience
The Couric Incident: HPV Vaccine & Mass Bullying
Editorial Note: This post is by John Stone at my invitation. I am broadly speaking pro-Vaccination and reluctant to stray into the Vaccination Wars but the issues about free debate in recent posts seem most acute in this domain. Anyone who even thinks about questioning is vilified. There are important public policy issues involved in MMR but less so with the HPV vaccine and … [Read more...] about The Couric Incident: HPV Vaccine & Mass Bullying