Politics of Care

The end of the year is a time to turn to more 'spiritual' or reflective themes. This year two contrasting spiritualities, featured in previous end of year posts, have been headline news. Rock-etman One set of posts has looked at Salvation through Technology. Religion, Technology and Management. 'Tis the Season to Rebel. In 2021, we have seen a flowering of these … [Read more...] about Rock, Stone, Crack – Disappear

This key post in the Politics of Care series stems from an invite from Norman Fenton to give a lecture on December 6 to a group interested in the evidence swirling around vaccines. It is accompanied by The Handmaid's Vaccine on RxISK, which gives a video of the talk, whose text and slides are below.  The sound effects in the video are slightly mixed at one or two point and you … [Read more...] about Where Does the Misinformation Come From?

This post has a partner - There was a Young Woman who Swallowed a Lie.  It also needs to be read with its Health Warning. A Full Eclipse of Care In the early 1980s, the pharmaceutical industry outsourced the running of its randomized clinical trials (RCTs) to Contract Research Organizations (CROs) and the writing up of RCT results to medical writing companies. With this, … [Read more...] about The Eclipse of Health Care

(See update at end of article). Bri Dressen was a key figure behind the Washington DC November 2 event reported in Mandated Harms,  Her testimony at this meeting features Here and Here. She followed up this testimony by writing to the New England Journal of Medicine which until recently was viewed as one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world - Americans … [Read more...] about New England Journal of Misinformation

Nearly seven years ago now, two brothers burst into the editorial offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, where they killed twelve people and injured eleven others. Charlie's crime was to support the idea that it was reasonable to portray the Prophet in Cartoon form. This touched a raw nerve for some French people. Nearly four million other French people, however, came out on … [Read more...] about Je Suis Charlie: You are Michael

This post links intimately with the Dia de los Muertos post on RxISK. El Naufragio de lo Singular was published two weeks ago.  Translated by Alex Oncina Canovas and Marc Casañas, who have thought long and hard about related issues, it is likely this is almost its own book rather than just a translation. There were two reasons to translate Shipwreck into Spanish.  One is … [Read more...] about Chronicle of a Tyranny Foretold

The Back Story Britain's Royal College of Psychiatrists recently produced a book, Mind State and Society, edited by George Ikkos and Nick Bouras.  MSS celebrates 50 years of psychiatry during the period 1960 - 2010. George approached me for a chapter on pharmaceutical industry input to the period.  I wrote  The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Standardisation of Psychiatric … [Read more...] about The Standardization of Psychiatry

On June 3, 2009, Sean Tracey cross-examined Jane Nieman, who at the time was Director, U.S. Post-Marketing Group, Worldwide Clinical Safety for GlaxoSmithKline in a deposition. Ms. Nieman testified about a spontaneous event report for an aborted male child that was assigned Manufacturer Control Number 2001014040-2109 case number 3667484. This report, received by GSK/SB on June … [Read more...] about Company Woman or Mother?

This post features in a series of posts on the Politics of Care Forum.  It sits alongside Can Politicians Save Us, Can Politicians Save the World as well as What's a Life Worth, Once We Were Warriors and Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Doctor.  There will be a follow-up post next week.   The letter below (without the images) was sent to Eluned Morgan, Minister for Mental Health in … [Read more...] about Morgan vs Morgan: The Future of the NHS?