Children of the Cure has just been published - the Preface is on Samizdat. The first Chapter is on RxISK - Fear of Lying. Children is one of several closely related books due out in the next few weeks including Paul John Scott's The Malcharist and Jon Jureidini and Leemon McHenry's Illusions of Evidence Based Medicine. It would be wonderful if everyone reading this could … [Read more...] about Children of the Cure: Hand of History?
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Doxycycline and Stephen O’Neill
Stephen O'Neill became anxious in 2016 and was given Sertraline. This caused an immediate toxic reaction that killed him, The doctors treating him invented a fictitious mental illness and both they and the coroner found it convenient to blame this fiction for Stephen's death. See The Death of Stephen O'Neill and related posts. The coroner and doctors all but laughed at the … [Read more...] about Doxycycline and Stephen O’Neill
There is no Sanity Claus
Mid-morning, on Tuesday September 24 2019, Britain was gripped. Lots of people stopped what they were doing and turned their TVs or computers to live feed from the Supreme Court. Spider Woman (Brenda Hale) was taking on the Joker (Boris Johnson). She punched him in the nose. The Joker had suspended Parliament at a critical moment in the Brexit process. Spider Woman told … [Read more...] about There is no Sanity Claus
The NICE before Christmas
In Orders from Nowhere, Vaughan Gething suggested writing to Andrew Dillon of NICE. The correspondence had an Xmas Eve denouement - hence the title. It seems everybody figures NICE hold all the answers. The doctors who treated Stephen O'Neill claimed to be keeping to NICE Guidelines and only using drugs licensed by MHRA. They also conceded that Stephen was suffering from … [Read more...] about The NICE before Christmas
Orders from Nowhere that Kill
In The Death of Stephen O'Neill I suggested his doctors, like soldiers in an army, simply by dint of following orders were capable of doing horrific things. At his inquest, the doctors from the Bluestone unit in Craigavon, where Stephen had gone for help, issued this astonishing statement. Southern Trust Health and Social Care Trust response to Healy Senior clinicians … [Read more...] about Orders from Nowhere that Kill
I Recognise these Constraints
The Perfect Killing Machine claims people in medicine's highest echelons recognise what killed Stephen O'Neill but figure there's little they can do about it. This letter from Frank Atherton is the most extraordinary I've received from Government. To see why you need to page down to the letter to which he is responding, a letter that offers his boss, Vaughan Gething, the … [Read more...] about I Recognise these Constraints
The Perfect Killing Machine
Somewhat like a lobster being slowly boiled as opposed to one dropped straight into boiling water, we have learned to co-exist with and ignore a Perfect Killing Machine in our midst which takes far more lives than the Covid pandemic - without it featuring anywhere in the news. This is a second post about Stephen O'Neill, after last weeks The Death of Stephen O'Neill and … [Read more...] about The Perfect Killing Machine
The Death of Stephen O’Neill and You
There will be a sequence of 7 weekly posts here about Stephen O'Neill and You that will also feature on Stephen's Voice Facebook page. This and next week's post feature videos about why everyone should help bring some good from Stephen O'Neill's death - not just because the same could easily happen you but also because his death was caused by decent and honourable people and … [Read more...] about The Death of Stephen O’Neill and You
Repetition Compulsion to the Death or Beyond?
This post is all about a marvellous article by Arthur Schafer on Conflict of Interest - or something like that. See below. But first some background. In the Last Millennium Over three decades ago, Toronto and Thalassemia came together in what became one of the most celebrated bioethical cases of any millennium that initially pitched Nancy Olivieri, Brenda Gallie and … [Read more...] about Repetition Compulsion to the Death or Beyond?
Does My Bias Look Big in This?
Big Bias (video here) may be the most important lecture I have ever given. Its not easy. The bottom line is that Clinical Trials don't work. For everyone working in health (medical Catholics), this is a bit like saying the Pope is not infallible. We have a great problem with this, partly because our response is - If not the Pope, then who? - the idea that no-one is … [Read more...] about Does My Bias Look Big in This?