This key post in the Politics of Care series stems from an invite from Norman Fenton to give a lecture on December 6 to a group interested in the evidence swirling around vaccines. It is accompanied by The Handmaid's Vaccine on RxISK, which gives a video of the talk, whose text and slides are below. The sound effects in the video are slightly mixed at one or two point and you … [Read more...] about Where Does the Misinformation Come From?
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God Does Not Roll Dice. Should Doctors?
This lecture If God Doesn't Play Dice, Should Doctors was given at the invitation of Leeza Osipenko and Consilium Scientific on May 18th 2023. Consilium are playing a big part in encouraging us all to think more about the quality of proofs we turn to in medicine in particular about Randomized Controlled Trials. There are many excellent lectures on their site. With lectures … [Read more...] about God Does Not Roll Dice. Should Doctors?
Karunya Come Home
Case 3 Karunya Venugopalan This is the third case in the Cause and Effect Forum that looks at how we establish if a vaccine or a drug has caused a harm. On January 7, 2022, there was an extraordinary article in the BMJ by Priyanka Pulla - How Covid-19 vaccines exposed India's adverse event reporting systems. This outlined a series of injuries and deaths on Covid vaccines … [Read more...] about Karunya Come Home
New England Journal of Misinformation
(See update at end of article). Bri Dressen was a key figure behind the Washington DC November 2 event reported in Mandated Harms, Her testimony at this meeting features Here and Here. She followed up this testimony by writing to the New England Journal of Medicine which until recently was viewed as one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world - Americans … [Read more...] about New England Journal of Misinformation
Watch Out. Innocent Abroad
Very nearly 3 decades ago, I got involved in an American lawsuit. Forsyth v Eli Lilly Bill Forsyth was a wealthy man even before he sold the land his car rental business was on to Los Angeles airport. He and his wife, June, left Los Angeles for Maui in 1990, which as anyone who’s been there knows, is idyllic. It also gave June and Bill easy access to their 3 grandchildren … [Read more...] about Watch Out. Innocent Abroad
Health, Care and Science in Real Life
This post was delivered as a Medicine in Crisis lecture at a Pills and Skills for Depression meeting that David Antonuccio organized in Reno Nevada on October 4. Kim Witczak who features throughout the post was a panellist at the meeting. There was an audience of over 200 primarily University of Nevada students - so the talk is not like a tight academic article, it is … [Read more...] about Health, Care and Science in Real Life
Medical Assistance in Dying
After 6 deaths, 6 years ago, on November 17, two days ago, the New Zealand Herald featured an article reporting on an inquest into these deaths. The original with photos of the 6 children is linked. The text is below the link. The action in this post happens right at the bottom of the NZH article and beyond. Fluoxetine use in teenager scrutinised in youth suicide inquest A … [Read more...] about Medical Assistance in Dying
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 G7 (US, UK, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, and Japan along … [Read more...] about Can You Hear the Suzerain Call?
The Evidence that Counts for Us
This post follows last weeks The Evidence that Counts for FDA. The image of dog or bear in a burning house with an untested fire extinguisher is one that many medical managers have used when referring to the Covid crisis and vaccines - the vaccines may not be perfect but we are in a burning house and even if untested they are better than nothing. Thanks to the College of … [Read more...] about The Evidence that Counts for Us
The Prozac Liberation Front
Chatting, recently, to two different friends of his separately, mentioning the possible role of SSRIs or other meds in the Tumbler Ridge shooting, a colleague (C1 - the first of 3 colleagues in this post) got blown away by both of them. Conspiracy theories, they told him. Misinformation - you're being ridiculous. One of them - a decent scientist - sent him a ChatGPT read … [Read more...] about The Prozac Liberation Front