Before properly starting this article, I’ll recall a phrase that almost everyone knows: “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as a farce.” The author is the German philosopher Karl Marx. It’s common for people to use variants of this …
Of Cancers, Cures, and LNPs
Billions of dollars spent every year
Searching for a cure for cancer
Why not spend that money instead
To wipe out pollution that causes the cancer
Through DNA analysis
We may one day conquer disease
A “perfect” baby every time…
Illusions in Vaccine Effectiveness
In 2021, we were flooded with visuals showing us how effective the mRNA vaccines were against death from Covid. We saw, for example, that the Covid mortality graph of those who completed the 2-dose protocol was substantially lower than that …
Antidepressants for Everyone
In a recent STAT article, Roy Perlis, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, argued that antidepressants, known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), should be made available at US pharmacies without a prescription.
Perlis called on the drug manufacturers …
Children’s Health: By the Numbers
Last month, a young student at Eton College died at the age of 17 years while playing games at the College fields. Unfortunately, this sad event is not an isolated incident. During the same week, a different young football player …
Children’s Health: By the Numbers
Last month, a young student at Eton College died at the age of 17 years while playing games at the College fields. Unfortunately, this sad event is not an isolated incident. During the same week, a different young football player …
We’ve Forgotten Kant’s Moral Lesson
In the 18th century Immanuel Kant – arguably the most important philosopher of the historical European Enlightenment – gave us what is known as a ‘deontological (duty-oriented)’ moral philosophy, as opposed to, for example, a ‘consequentialist’ variety, or one that …
Pfizer Lied to Us Again
There used to be a time where claims from pharmaceutical companies may have been treated with some degree of skepticism from major institutions and media outlets.
Yet in late 2020 and into 2021, suddenly skepticism turned to complete blind faith. …
Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death
And psychiatric drugs are the third leading cause of death
Overtreatment with drugs kills many people, and the death rate is increasing. It is therefore strange that we have allowed this long-lasting drug pandemic to continue, and even more so …
Is Paxlovid a Dud?
Of all the antiviral drugs for Covid-19, Pfizer’s Paxlovid has been the most successful. Not for its safety and efficacy, but for its ability to earn the company billions in profits despite being largely ineffective for most people.
In November …
A Retired Physician’s View of American Healthcare
In my opinion, the healthcare system in this country is currently on life support. The level of trust is lower than it’s been in at least 50 years and deservedly so. While many probably believe that the negative impact on …
Patents, Pharma, Government: The Unholy Alliance
The Problem with Intellectual Property
The unholy alliance between Big Pharma and the FDA and Federal Government is truly breathtaking to behold. Unfortunately, its nature is so arcane and obscure that only a few notice this, other than those who …
Mechanisms of Harm: Introduction
[The following is the Introduction to Lori Weintz’s book, Mechanisms of Harm: Medicine in the Time of Covid-19.]
No one has the full story or complete knowledge about the Covid-19 pandemic and our response, but we should be able to …
Perverse Incentives
I. Introduction
We live in a world awash in perverse incentives.
A perverse incentive is when the rules, structures, or practices of any system reward bad behavior or sociopathic outcomes.
I had to come up with my own definition because …
The Era of Informed Consent is Over
In a significant blow to patient autonomy, informed consent has been quietly revoked just 77 years after it was codified in the Nuremberg Code.
On the 21st of December 2023, as we were frantically preparing for the festive season, the …