This post is twinned with No Room at the Inn. In Secula Seculorum are Latin words that resonate for anyone of a certain age with a Catholic background. Intoned in a sonorous and rhythmic way at ceremonies, they conjured up the sacred and holy. Looked at rather than listened to, they conjure up the opposite - secularism. The words mean forever and ever. Worlds … [Read more...] about In Secula Seculorum
Coming Clean on Neonatal Deaths
This post by Peter Selley needs reading in conjunction with Uterine Roulette, Lonesome Heroines and Silent Health. It is about our rights to information rather than about vaccines per se. There is an industry playbook here put in place with SSRI drugs over 30 years ago that needs recognizing and tackling. GSK (GlaxoSmithKline) are dragging their feet about being transparent … [Read more...] about Coming Clean on Neonatal Deaths
Silent Health
This post links to last week's Silencing Safety and Women and Children First and this week's Lonesome Heroines on RxISK. For decades, Jack Noble has been an inspiration for anyone in my and I'm sure other circles, who is concerned about the way medicine is going and the influence of pharma. He's a straight-talking Bostonian, now living in Texas, who can't easily be … [Read more...] about Silent Health
Women and Children First: The RSV Iceberg
This post written by Peter Selley and goes hand in hand with Silencing Doctors by David Healy on RxISK.org, which takes you in between the lines of what is written here and in two articles published today - a BMJ Consent Article and Vaccine contre la bronchiolite: Pfizer Essais en zone d'ombre by Ariane Denoyel for Blast, a French investigative journalism unit. The RSV … [Read more...] about Women and Children First: The RSV Iceberg
Pharmageddon and Fertility
This post needs reading in conjunction with Has Healthcare Gone Mad and A Medical Triumph. This image of declining British fertility from 1880 was repeated across the Western world and more recently the whole world. The usual explanations are in terms of social and economic factors and are typically seen as a good thing. Progressives see women getting more control over the … [Read more...] about Pharmageddon and Fertility
Has Healthcare Gone Mad?
This talk was given at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry on October 28. The Video version of HealthCare Gone Mad is linked here. The slides and text are below. There will soon be an official ISEPP link to the talk and a Q and A, which will be added here as soon as its … [Read more...] about Has Healthcare Gone Mad?
Freeing Teresa: Human Rights Should be for Everyone
RxISK is also running a Freeing Teresa post today.. Samizdat is co-publishing Freeing Teresa with Franke and Bill James. It’s a true story about Franke’s battle to protect her younger sister, Teresa, who has Down syndrome. Ten years ago, based on incorrect health information, Teresa lost her right to decide where to live. Then, she was put involuntarily into long-term care. … [Read more...] about Freeing Teresa: Human Rights Should be for Everyone
Random or Mad
No longer young, debatably more mature, but definitely older looking than the photograph below, David Healy figures he might now be able to deliver a decent lecture. He's been invited to speak at an International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry in 2 weeks time - on October 28. The talk will cover some of the points mentioned in the last post - Psychotropic … [Read more...] about Random or Mad
Psychotropic Drug Follies
This post links to Experts by Experience and Withdrawal, PSSD and Cholinergic Drugs on RxISK and The Marketing of Anticholinergic Maleficence here last week along a just published article The Past Present and Future which describes a medical 'episode' that gives you an insight on how the system 'works' and should leave you skeptical amost almost anything you might hear about … [Read more...] about Psychotropic Drug Follies
The Marketing of Anticholinergic Maleficence
More than any other group of drugs in medicine, the anticholinergics have become Maleficent - blamed for the hedge of thorns that keeps our inner beauty asleep until some medical prince can fight his way through and put a Magic Wafer on our lips.- See Experts by Experience. In 1920 Otto Loewi had a dream that changed our world. Most people thought communication … [Read more...] about The Marketing of Anticholinergic Maleficence