This post is a companion to Where Does the Misinformation Come From? on DH.org, which gives the slides and text of a lecture on Monday evening. Norman Fenton asked me to give the talk to a group that is neither pro nor anti vaccines or drugs but were all interested in how we go about collecting evidence . The talk is dedicated, in my mind anyway, to Bri Dressen and all who … [Read more...] about The Handmaid’s Vaccine
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There was a Young Woman who Swallowed a Lie
This post is the partner of The Eclipse of Health Care. See also Warning re Health. Before reading (and after finishing) it's worth listening to Peter Seeger's There was a Young Woman. Mandating Unproven Technologies Governments are considering mandating, or already have mandated an unproven technology, against a background of vaccine approval and pharmacovigilance … [Read more...] about There was a Young Woman who Swallowed a Lie
Warning re Health
This is a warning about two linked posts - with two more next week. The Eclipse of Health Care features on davidhealy.org. It has a partner There was a Young Woman who Swallowed a Lie on RxISK.org These were combined in one document - Mandating Unproven Technologies, which along with a set of appendices was sent to Dr Chaand Nagpaul, the Chair of the British Medical … [Read more...] about Warning re Health
Mentally Hijacked by Doxycycline
There are several previous posts on this topic - Doxycycline causes Suicide and Suicide is Painless and becoming suicidal on an antibiotic. None of them give as compelling a picture of what the problem is like from the inside as this letter that came to RxISK some months ago. A Life in Good Shape I am a thirty-eight year old active mother and partner who regularly practices … [Read more...] about Mentally Hijacked by Doxycycline
Albert’s Algorithm: Be Very Afraid
Last week in Washington a meeting was convened to look at Vaccine Harms - the harms suffered post-vaccine by some pro-vaccine people, some so much pro that they enrolled for vaccine clinical trials. See Mandated Harms. The meeting heard testimony from ten people, eight of whom I had interviewed, all of whom in my opinion had the injuries they claimed and for each a strong … [Read more...] about Albert’s Algorithm: Be Very Afraid
Mandated Harms: The Day of the Dead
Tens of thousands of people have been killed or badly injured by Covid vaccines. I have had the privilege to meet and assess over ten of the injured in the last two weeks, thanks to Bri Dressen. On November 2, the Day of the Dead, in the Capitol, Bri, along with Senator Ron Johnson, and Peter Doshi and Linda Wastila who co-ordinated a petition to FDA to ask for the … [Read more...] about Mandated Harms: The Day of the Dead
The Nature and Meaning of Psychiatry
This post links intimately with The Standardization of Psychiatry - you might even call it A Necessary Shadow. Standardization was a lecture on psychiatry given in the Royal Society of Medicine on October 5. To find out what's going on you need to read the Back Story to Standardization. Back in 2013, I was asked to review Necessary Shadow and Strictly Bipolar by Literary … [Read more...] about The Nature and Meaning of Psychiatry
Prescribed Harms and Vaccine Hesitancy
In 2015, there was a series of posts on davidhealy.org Pharmaceutical Rape, Pharmaceutical Rape is not a Metaphor, Pharmaceutical Rape: Cast of Characters, Pharmaceutical Rape: The Good Patient, Pharmaceutical Rape: Doctors Still Know Best, Pharmaceutical Rape: Discrimination, Pharmaceutical Rape: Ending our Tolerance. The following year GlaxoSmithKline lawyers deposed me in … [Read more...] about Prescribed Harms and Vaccine Hesitancy
Regula(to)r Woman or Mother: Wright as Raine
This post needs to be read in conjunction with Companies and Mothers on davidhealy.org. Most people think pharmaceutical companies are evil and regulators are on our side. Both are intensely bureaucratic. They hide behind procedures. Judge for yourself which has the most humanity. June Raine CEO, MHRA 10 South Colonnade Canary Wharf London E14 4PU Dear Dr … [Read more...] about Regula(to)r Woman or Mother: Wright as Raine
Love in a Time of Covid
President Joseph E Biden The White House Washington D.C September 28th 2021 Dear Dr Joe We have a lot in common – Irish, Catholic backgrounds and perhaps one or two other bits mixed in, and a concern for those injured or killed in a War. Your addition of the role of doctor to your portfolio gives us one more thing. I hope mentioning Dr. Joe doesn’t seem … [Read more...] about Love in a Time of Covid