David Healy

This is part one of a two part post.  The image is from the opening sequence of Raiders of the Lost Arc and shows Indiana Jones being chased by angry natives with the shakiest of means of escape - like trying to escape in a Ford Pinto which risked bursting into flames.   A Fireser 747 Max 8 might have been more up to date option.  Part two next week. When vaccines and drugs … [Read more...] about The Evidence that Counts for FDA

The one good thing about the Pandemic is that its given rise to some good cartoons - more on the side of the Resistance I think but am open to being persuaded if anyone wants to send me Clever Cartoons from the Empire's side.  I hope this post doesn't offend anyone's sensibilities - it should be read as an amusement.  The next section is most of an article that appeared in … [Read more...] about I Am the Alpha and the Omicron

Rock, Stone, Crack - Disappear was supposed to be the last post of 2021. But this post forced itself forward, partly triggered by Marc Casañas, who with Alex Oncina translated El Naufragio - see Chronicle of a Tyranny Foretold. May We Never Forget One of the stories of 2021 in the English speaking world was the discovery of over a thousand unmarked graves linked to several … [Read more...] about Invalidating Indigenous Immunity

The end of the year is a time to turn to more 'spiritual' or reflective themes. This year two contrasting spiritualities, featured in previous end of year posts, have been headline news. Rock-etman One set of posts has looked at Salvation through Technology. Religion, Technology and Management. 'Tis the Season to Rebel. In 2021, we have seen a flowering of these … [Read more...] about Rock, Stone, Crack – Disappear

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?

This post has a partner - There was a Young Woman who Swallowed a Lie.  It also needs to be read with its Health Warning. A Full Eclipse of Care In the early 1980s, the pharmaceutical industry outsourced the running of its randomized clinical trials (RCTs) to Contract Research Organizations (CROs) and the writing up of RCT results to medical writing companies. With this, … [Read more...] about The Eclipse of Health Care

(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

Nearly seven years ago now, two brothers burst into the editorial offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, where they killed twelve people and injured eleven others. Charlie's crime was to support the idea that it was reasonable to portray the Prophet in Cartoon form. This touched a raw nerve for some French people. Nearly four million other French people, however, came out on … [Read more...] about Je Suis Charlie: You are Michael

This post links intimately with the Dia de los Muertos post on RxISK. El Naufragio de lo Singular was published two weeks ago.  Translated by Alex Oncina Canovas and Marc Casañas, who have thought long and hard about related issues, it is likely this is almost its own book rather than just a translation. There were two reasons to translate Shipwreck into Spanish.  One is … [Read more...] about Chronicle of a Tyranny Foretold