CisMedicine – TransMedicine While The Once and Future Immunity about vaccines for RSV was being drafted last week, the Cass Review on Gender Medicine hit the news headlines. Cass trenchantly critiques gender medicine as it has been practiced in the Western world in the last decade. These 2 items intersect as hopefully this post will make clear. Trenchant though it was, the … [Read more...] about Cass or Cassandra: Doctors Bearing Gifts
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Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up
I was asked by Mandy Payne at Health Sense to review Bad Therapy due to be published today and agreed because an earlier book by Abigail Shrier, Irreversible Damage, had worked for me. Reviews of Bad Therapy are tumbling out at the moment - the Daily Mail has two - one by the Mail - Generation Sicknote and one by Abigail. The Mail front page review neatly has a link … [Read more...] about Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up
It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall
There is a core concept shaping the ‘market’ in health, the concept of an assay. Few doctors or patients understand it. This article explains what assays are, how they entered healthcare and the consequences of failing to grasp the role they play. This post by Harriet Vogt and David Healy is an illustrated version of a peer-reviewed citable academic article Randomized … [Read more...] about It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall
Liberty, Equality and Fertility
This post is partnered with a Timeline on Sex, Fertility, France and Serotonin on RxISK MAiD I am on a listserve that includes Trudo Lemmens a vocal opponent of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in Canada. Canada seems to be going about MAiD particularly enthusiastically. Quite apart from Trudo being a long standing friend, I am impressed with the coherence, morality and … [Read more...] about Liberty, Equality and Fertility
In Secula Seculorum
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?