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Dr. David Healy

Psychiatrist. Psychopharmacologist. Scientist. Author.

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Psychotropic Drug Follies

September 25, 2023 2 Comments

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

Jen and the Genestalk

March 29, 2023 19 Comments

Mystery in the Moonlight © Nina Otulakowski March 2023 As she was about to leave the house, Jen’s mother asked her if she was on her way to get vaccinated. Mother, she said, that’s like asking me to take the cow to the market.  It’s a bit twentieth century, maybe even nineteenth. You get vaccinia virus from cows. I’m heading off to meet Bri and Suzanna for the latest gene … [Read more...] about Jen and the Genestalk

Are Women Better at Everything?

March 9, 2023 6 Comments

I was born in a generation where it was thought women couldn’t drive cars, write fiction, compose music, compete at sports, or should be let work after marriage. Women were emotional, intuitive, erratic but not really capable of full rationality. Ireland in the 1950s may have been a few years behind other parts of Europe on these issues, but it has a prior history of women … [Read more...] about Are Women Better at Everything?

In a Galaxy too close to Home for Comfort

September 13, 2021 3 Comments

Long ago, in friendlier times, this blog ran a series of Modern Myths featuring Crusoe.  The plan was for a lot more but life got serious. Rummaging through files I came across some drafts. This one was dated 2010 but the original might have been written a year or more before. It was clearly the way things were going then.  Beta Centauri was unquestionably a long way from … [Read more...] about In a Galaxy too close to Home for Comfort

Revolution from Below: politics of care

August 8, 2021 4 Comments

  There is an important post on RxISK - What's a Life Worth? Its author, Tracey G, like Violetta in La Traviata would not describe herself as having led a perfect life. La Traviata is one of the all-time great operas and in Zeffirelli's movie, with Teresa Statas, is beyond compelling - especially when Alfredo's father steps in to castigate him for his … [Read more...] about Revolution from Below: politics of care

Algorithms are from Mars

April 16, 2021 8 Comments

When God was in Heaven, our images of the Divine split between Justice and Mercy – the Shock and Awe figure of the Last Judgement or someone more like Portia letting us know the quality of mercy is not strained, that it droppeth as the gentle rain from Heaven upon the place beneath.  A person with the love of a Mother for her child. Through to the 1750 or so, the Monarch … [Read more...] about Algorithms are from Mars

Religion, Technology and Management

December 24, 2020 10 Comments

Religion Mention religion and the links between individuals and their creator, if they think they have one, come to mind.  We imagine an individual fasting, meditating, or kneeling in prayer. It was more common in the past however to think of a people, like the People of Israel and their God. Our rulers, whether Kings or Pharaohs, stood in loco divinitas as the person … [Read more...] about Religion, Technology and Management

Stormy Weather II

August 19, 2020 3 Comments

SWI There was a fuss after Stormy Weather.  A colleague got in touch to ask if my twitter feed had been hacked - he'd been copied in on some weird stuff. I went on twitter to check - I rarely check things out.  And noticed 250 notifications - the first few of which were all about Fake News and the like and seemed semi-angry and semi-amused.  It turned out there were only … [Read more...] about Stormy Weather II

Stormy Weather I

August 17, 2020 2 Comments

If it appears in the New York Times it must be true but in truth we have no evidence that Stormy Daniels or Donald Trump or Joe Biden have PSSD or PFS or any related conditions - although there was considerable gossip at one point claiming Donald was taking Finasteride.  Probably just Fake News. There is a fairy tale quality to the story you see here - an Arabian Night's … [Read more...] about Stormy Weather I

‘Tis the Season to Rebel

December 23, 2019 24 Comments

In the Beginning The conventional story is that Good created the world but that at some point after the Creation a group of Rebel Angels figured they could do a better job of running the show.  They took on the Almighty and lost – we are told. You can view Lucifer, Beelzebub or the Satan, as evil beyond comprehension seducing humans into the all too human evils of … [Read more...] about ‘Tis the Season to Rebel

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