Editorial Note: This post is from John Horgan who writes for Scientific American. The original is here. There is one change - the image used. JH's posts are always worth reading. In this he takes on a worrying trend to regard science as sacrosanct. A recent front cover for National Geographic brought this home to me. To question whether vaccines might cause autism it seems is … [Read more...] about Everyone Has The Right To Challenge Scientific Experts
Winging It: Antidepressants and Plane Crashes
The crash last week of the Germanwings plane has shocked many. In view of the apparent mental health record of the co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, questions have been asked about the screening policies of airlines. The focus has generally been on the conditions pilots may have or the arguments they might be having with partners or other situational factors that might make them … [Read more...] about Winging It: Antidepressants and Plane Crashes
Antidepressants and The Tell-Tale Heart 2
Editorial Note: This is Part 2 of Antidepressants and The Tell-Tale Heart. It fits into a sub-series about Pharmaceuticals: Rape and Consent. It also maps straight on to Antidepressant Withdrawal: A Prozac Story and Saving Grace both of which are on RxISK. Saving Grace picks up the Bipolar theme running through Tell Tale Heart. For the record, there is no question but that … [Read more...] about Antidepressants and The Tell-Tale Heart 2
Antidepressants and The Tell-Tale Heart
We have slightly detoured from the Persecution theme. The detour came after a lawyer, a woman, representing a company that markets escitalopram said it wasn't appropriate to compare the lack of consent in pharmacotherapy to rape. This gave rise to a Consent-Rape mini series of posts which this two-part post continues. Persecution will resume very soon. This post feeds into a … [Read more...] about Antidepressants and The Tell-Tale Heart
Pharmaceutical Rape
Editorial Note: A riff by Laurie Oakley on the issue of Rape and Consent. See Laurie's recent post on RxISK - Over the Top: Tackling Medical Power and for pharmaceutical lawyers on the issue or Rape and Consent - see Dangerous Liaisons II. It should be read in conjunction with Doctors Writing Scary Scripts: Saving Grace on RxISK. We are interested in any additions anyone - … [Read more...] about Pharmaceutical Rape
Persecution: Dangerous Liaisons II
Editorial Note: This is the eighteenth post in the Persecution series, and a sequel to Dangerous Liaisons. See Brand Fascism for a listing of prior posts in the sequence. Slightly over a week ago in New York I was subject to a blizzard of questions from a lawyer for Forest, who taking great pleasure in using the word Fucked in a deposition asked among others questions … [Read more...] about Persecution: Dangerous Liaisons II
Persecution: Dangerous Liaisons
This is the seventeenth in the Persecution Series. See Brand Fascism for a listing of prior posts in the sequence. In the novel Les Liaisons Dangereux, later the movie Dangerous Liaisons, the Marquise de Merteuil engages the Vicomte de Valmont to corrupt the incorruptible Madame de Tourvel... From 1951, a system designed for heroin and cocaine addicts - … [Read more...] about Persecution: Dangerous Liaisons
War on Civilization: What Would Happen if Patients Radicalize?
The Events in Paris have led to a brief interruption to the Persecution Series although this post could have been termed Brand Fascism II. Illustration: Data Wars, © 2012 Billiam James The day after the Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris, Nicholas Sarkozy stood on the steps of the Elysee Palace and said "This [the shootings] is a declaration of a war on civilization and it … [Read more...] about War on Civilization: What Would Happen if Patients Radicalize?
Persecution: Brand Fascism
This is the Sixteenth in the Persecution Series, after The Persecution of Heretics, The Persecution of Vulnerable Adults, Harassment from the BBC to GMC, Harassment from Rolf Harris to James Coyne to Doctor Who, Persecution: Black Riders in the Shire, Persecution: Rumbles from Mordor, of which there were eight in the SUI Cide Series SUI Cide in Betsi, SUI Cide Trick or Treat, … [Read more...] about Persecution: Brand Fascism
Crusoe, We Say, Was Rescued
This is the Sixteenth Modern Myth featuring Crusoe. The Persecution series resumes next week with Brand Fascism. The clinics were different now to what they had been. Hands on fire The woman walked in, glancing at her hands as she came. Crusoe already knew what she would say. In days gone by peripheral neuropathies were rare. You saw one a year, perhaps in older people – … [Read more...] about Crusoe, We Say, Was Rescued