Serotonin may be our most primitive neurotransmitter and so on theoretical grounds alone there was reason to think that the Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibiting drugs (SSRIs) - sold as absolutely and completely safe, the only danger lying in not having them when you needed them - might have significant effects, not all of which would be good. In 1993, I chaired a … [Read more...] about Venus Rising: Women and Antidepressants
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The Transit of Venus: Autonomy or Nurture?
Venus is the black dot in the upper right quadrant of the sun. The plan was to finish the I Can't Breathe series with Magic is from Venus but then the word Nurture popped onto my radar. There is a Venus Rising to come. The word autonomy starts appearing in medicine and in bioethics sometime in the 1950s, give or take a few years, linked to the emergence of Informed … [Read more...] about The Transit of Venus: Autonomy or Nurture?
High Noon: Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My….?
In early December 2020, Ian and Tania Morgan had to attend the inquest of their son Samuel in Swansea, South Wales. Sam died in January 2020, a week after he had been put on citalopram by his family doctor, Dr Adams. Sam was pretty close to a healthy volunteer. A 25 year old, sporty, successful at College, with a girlfriend - there was very little wrong with him. He likely … [Read more...] about High Noon: Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My….?
Shipwreck of the Singular: Healthcare’s Castaways
Shipwreck of the Singular, which Samizdat has just published, took more time to write than all my other books combined. The others tumbled out - often in just a few weeks. Unpublishable Pharmageddon took 3 weeks. But it then took 4 years to find a publisher. I took on an agent to help get a publisher. Faced with Shipwreck, the same agent said it would never be published. She … [Read more...] about Shipwreck of the Singular: Healthcare’s Castaways
Children of the Cure: Hand of History?
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?
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
Spotlight on the Suicides: The Politicians
This Continues the Spotlight on the Suicides series. Astonished by the conclusion of Stephen O'Neill's inquest, I wrote to Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister, copied to the Ministers of Health in Ireland, Simon Harris, in Wales Vaughan Gething, and in England Matt Hancock, along with the Danish MEP, Margrete Auken, the European Ombudsman, Emily O'Reilly and Martina … [Read more...] about Spotlight on the Suicides: The Politicians
Something Happened – to Science and to Us
In March 2015, the cover of National Geographic featured a picture of the moon-landing with a title The War on Science and a strapline: climate change does not exist; evolution never happened; the moon landing was fake; vaccination can lead to autism; genetically modified food is evil. See Here. Even before elections in Europe and America in 2016 gave us Fake News, a … [Read more...] about Something Happened – to Science and to Us
What Happened?
In the early to mid 1990s something happened. The view that many social commentators and academics offer is that neo-liberalism swept into town, dissolved society and turned us all into individuals. This is a non-explanation in that no-one can spell out what neo-liberalism is - so the explanation boils down to something happened. The something is caught in a review of … [Read more...] about What Happened?