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Damsels Dying from Distress or Dysphoria? - Dr. David Healy
This post, which opens with a photo of Noelia Voigt navigates between last week's Cass and Cassandra, which features Distressed Damsels and Dudes, and RxISK's post this week - Is Your Treatment Making you Suicidal, which features Dysphoric Damsels and Dudes - dying from drug induced dysphoria. Noelia was until this week Miss USA 2023.
Cass or Cassandra: Doctors Bearing Gifts - Dr. David Healy
CisMedicine – TransMedicine While The Once and Future Immunity about vaccines for RSV was being drafted last week, the Cass Review on Gender Medicine hit the news headlines. Cass trenchantly critiques gender medicine as it has been practiced in the Western world in the last decade. These 2 items intersect as hopefully this post will
The Once and Future Immunity - Dr. David Healy
This post is mostly Peter Selley's. Covid flooded us with talk of immunity and vaccines. The word vaccine was redefined so mRNA agents could be called vaccines, even though they do not confer immunity or stop transmission as traditional vaccines do. The RSV vaccines are the latest. Given to older folk, they meet traditional
The Creation Narrative and God Complex - Dr. David Healy
This post continues Zen and Psychopharmacology and An Archipelago of Realities. I am going to rewrite a rewrite of Genesis. Here is the rewrite to be rewritten: The six days of Creation were divine and bright. But on the seventh day God broke down. On the seventh day he felt the unknown texture under his
An Archipelago of Realities - Dr. David Healy
The post follows on from last weeks Zen and Art of Psychopharmacology and links with Potentially Inappropriate Deprescribing PID on RxISK. Tullio Giraldi and I first e-met in 2009. Introducing himself, he painted an unusual background. He had been a pharmacologist but now his interests lay in Buddhism and psychotherapy. I learnt later that he
Zen and the Art of Psychopharmacology - Dr. David Healy
This post outlines an article that will appear in the next issue of Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry - Zen and the Art of MoodCycle Maintenance - borrowing from the title of a semi-philosophical book with Zen and MotorCyles in its title that was well-known when some of us were young. The full article with
The Great Silence and Moral Injury - Dr. David Healy
Assuming things around 1998 in the graph below were what most of us would have figured until recently was what normal should look like – by that I mean as we might have expected things to be – there has been a dramatic change since 1998. See Conspiracy of Silence. No one, until recently, would
The Welfare State Conspiracy of Silence - Dr. David Healy
This graph recreates history. In Britain by 1935, Fertility Rates had fallen below 2.1 – the number of children women have on average - 1.8 and stayed there. The national replacement rate is 2.1. Given the steep slope down from 5.0 to 1.8 over less than 50 years, there is little reason to think in
Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up - Dr. David Healy
I was asked by Mandy Payne at Health Sense to review Bad Therapy due to be published today and agreed because an earlier book by Abigail Shrier, Irreversible Damage, had worked for me. Reviews of Bad Therapy are tumbling out at the moment - the Daily Mail has two - one by the Mail -
It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall - Dr. David Healy
There is a core concept shaping the ‘market’ in health, the concept of an assay. Few doctors or patients understand it. This article explains what assays are, how they entered healthcare and the consequences of failing to grasp the role they play. This post by Harriet Vogt and David Healy is an illustrated version of
Efficiency is not the Supreme Virtue - Dr. David Healy
I was staying in Aubervilliers last November for a “Whistleblowers” Lanceurs d’Alerte conference. Aubervilliers is in the North-East of Paris – not one of the tourist areas. Some French friends suggested the reason Paris was hosting the Olympics was because it offered the authorities an opportunity to flatten that part of the city and regenerate
TAIL Wags God – Technology and Morality - Dr. David Healy
AiDA - Assistance in Dying Altruistically - featured in Liberty Equality and Fertility. Here's AIDA's picture. It likely depends on your mood as you look at the picture. She might make an AiDA option look attractive or add to its horror. Some people, particularly mothers, can be extraordinarily altruistic, and might think they could sacrifice
Liberty, Equality and Fertility - Dr. David Healy
This post is partnered with a Timeline on Sex, Fertility, France and Serotonin on RxISK MAiD I am on a listserve that includes Trudo Lemmens a vocal opponent of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in Canada. Canada seems to be going about MAiD particularly enthusiastically. Quite apart from Trudo being a long standing friend, I
Pharmageddon and Our HealthCare Climate - Dr. David Healy
This post centers on one member of our twin greatest problems - the changing climate of healthcare - as do HealthCare Gone Mad and Pharmageddon and Fertility., and older posts - Healthcare and the Global Climate and all posts in the Politics of Care Forum. There are linked posts on RxISK.org, starting with The Cradle
God Does Not Roll Dice. Should Doctors? - Dr. David Healy
This lecture If God Doesn't Play Dice, Should Doctors was given at the invitation of Leeza Osipenko and Consilium Scientific on May 18th 2023. Consilium are playing a big part in encouraging us all to think more about the quality of proofs we turn to in medicine in particular about Randomized Controlled Trials. There are
Freeing Teresa – Uplifting 2024 - Dr. David Healy
I was asked by Shepherd Books to list my 3 favorite books for 2023. My list is Here - Freeing Teresa came top, followed by Wonder Drug and Escape from Model Land. The overall Shepherd Best Books for 2023 List Is Here. Freeing Teresa is different to anything else. It's uplifting as well as dramatic.
In Secula Seculorum - Dr. David Healy
This post is twinned with No Room at the Inn. In Secula Seculorum are Latin words that resonate for anyone of a certain age with a Catholic background. Intoned in a sonorous and rhythmic way at ceremonies, they conjured up the sacred and holy. Looked at rather than listened to, they conjure up the opposite
Coming Clean on Neonatal Deaths - Dr. David Healy
This post by Peter Selley needs reading in conjunction with Uterine Roulette, Lonesome Heroines and Silent Health. It is about our rights to information rather than about vaccines per se. There is an industry playbook here put in place with SSRI drugs over 30 years ago that needs recognizing and tackling. GSK (GlaxoSmithKline) are dragging
Silent Health - Dr. David Healy
This post links to last week's Silencing Safety and Women and Children First and this week's Lonesome Heroines on RxISK. For decades, Jack Noble has been an inspiration for anyone in my and I'm sure other circles, who is concerned about the way medicine is going and the influence of pharma. He's a straight-talking Texan
Women and Children First: The RSV Iceberg - Dr. David Healy
This post written by Peter Selley and goes hand in hand with Silencing Doctors by David Healy on RxISK.org, which takes you in between the lines of what is written here and in two articles published today - a BMJ Consent Article and Vaccine contre la bronchiolite: Pfizer Essais en zone d'ombre by Ariane Denoyel
Pharmageddon and Fertility - Dr. David Healy
This post needs reading in conjunction with Has Healthcare Gone Mad and A Medical Triumph. This image of declining British fertility from 1880 was repeated across the Western world and more recently the whole world. The usual explanations are in terms of social and economic factors and are typically seen as a good thing. Progressives
Has Healthcare Gone Mad? - Dr. David Healy
Slide 1: Everyone can likely see 2 Faces and a Vase here. The word RANDOM can also be seen two ways. Random behavior was seen as key sign of madness. Now it is seen as the path to Wisdom and Truth. In the 1960s, phrases like Do not adjust your TV, the World has
Freeing Teresa: Human Rights Should be for Everyone - Dr. David Healy
RxISK is also running a Freeing Teresa post today.. Samizdat is co-publishing Freeing Teresa with Franke and Bill James. It’s a true story about Franke’s battle to protect her younger sister, Teresa, who has Down syndrome. Ten years ago, based on incorrect health information, Teresa lost her right to decide where to live. Then, she
The Marketing of Anticholinergic Maleficence - Dr. David Healy
More than any other group of drugs in medicine, the anticholinergics have become Maleficent - blamed for the hedge of thorns that keeps our inner beauty asleep until some medical prince can fight his way through and put a Magic Wafer on our lips.- See Experts by Experience. In 1920 Otto Loewi had a
Are Journalists the Answer to Clinical Medicines Cause and Effect Problem? - Dr. David Healy
This post by David Healy and Peter Selley does not question the good intentions of anyone mentioned. But sometimes good intentions can land us in a mess. In 2001, Study 329, a clinical trial comparing paroxetine to imipramine and placebo was published; it claimed paroxetine was effective and safe (1). Jon Jureidini and other clinicians
Random or Mad - Dr. David Healy
No longer young, debatably more mature, but definitely older looking than the photograph below, David Healy figures he might now be able to deliver a decent lecture. He's been invited to speak at an International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry in 2 weeks time - on October 28. The talk will cover some of
Psychotropic Drug Follies - Dr. David Healy
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
Not The BMJ News - Dr. David Healy
Peter Selley and I have many friends in and a soft spot for The BMJ - the journal for members of the British Medical Association. One of us has read every issue since 1970. We thought there might be some response to our post Are Journalists the Answer to Clinical Medicine's Cause and Effect Problem,
Peeking behind the Curtain for a Wizard - Dr. David Healy
This post by Patrick Hahn about The Day the Science Died reminds us that we have lived through some extraordinary times but seem inclined as perhaps people were after World War II to not dwell on things and just get on with life - for a decade or two until the memories came back. -
Another Brick in the Wall - Dr. David Healy
Pfizer’s maternal RSV vaccine (RSVpreF aka Abrysvo) has now been approved by both FDA and EMA. In the USA recommendations are awaited from CDC, ACIP and ACOG. Previous posts have examined Abrysvo’s risks if given to pregnant women. See: Yellow Peril A Shot in the Dark Women and Clinical Trials American drug Labels (called Package
DE LA REVOLUCIÓN FRANCESA A LA INTELLIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL | Dr. David Healy
MEDICINA: DE LA REVOLUCIÓN FRANCESA A LA INTELLIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL Diapositiva 1: En pleno siglo XVIII en Francia médicos como François Quesnay y otros fisiócratas crearon la palabra economía, que dio lugar a expresiones como Laissez-Faire y Emprendedor. Proponían la idea de que los organismos humanos se pueden autorregular, lo que podríamos llamar homeostasia. Adam Smith
Qu’Ils Mangent Des Médicaments | Dr. David Healy
This is the first of two lectures organized by Fanny Dargent who has a longstanding interest in adolescence and its problems and the dangers of psychotropic medication, along with Ariane Denoyel, who has authored the French version of this lecture below, and is the author of Génération Zombie, the leading book in French on these
From the French Revolution to A.I. | Dr. David Healy
This is the second of two lectures organized by Fanny Dargent who has a longstanding interest in adolescence and its problems and the dangers of psychotropic medication, along with Ariane Denoyel, who has authored the French version of this lecture below, and the author of Génération Zombie, the leading book in French on these issues.
Femmes Enceintes et Essais Cliniques | Dr. David Healy
Peter Selley, un collègue médecin, avec qui je suis en contact depuis près de deux ans, il y a un an a commencé à parler d'essais cliniques sur le VRS. Je n'y ai prêté aucune attention, mais il apparaît maintenant qu’il a eu beaucoup plus de flair pour “lever un lièvre”. Par “un lièvre”, j'entends
Women, Pregnancy, and Clinical Trials | Dr. David Healy
A year ago, Peter Selley, featured below got interested in the trials for an RSV vaccine. I paid no heed but Peter had smelt a story. Soon after I smelt a related story about efforts to enrol pregnant women in clinical trials. Sixty years after we introduced Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) into the regulations governing
Si Dieu ne joue pas aux dés, Quid des médecins | Dr. David Healy
Voici une conférence donnée à l’invitation de Consilium Scientific le 18 mai 2023, organisée par Leeza Osipenko. Consilium joue un rôle essentiel dans la remise en question de la qualité des preuves dont nous disposons en médecine, en particulier pour ce qui concerne les essais cliniques randomisés contrôlés (ECR). Ces derniers mois, ils ont été
God Does Not Play Dice. Should Doctors? | Dr. David Healy
This is a talk that was given for Consilium Scientific today May 18 at the invitation of Leeza Osipenko. Consilium are doing more than anyone to raise questions about the quality of the evidence we have in medicine - in particular around controlled trials. They have had some fabulous contributions in recent months - all
Does God Play Dice? | Dr. David Healy
I am due to give a lecture on Thursday. This LINK and the Link below will let people sign in for this. If God Doesn't Play Dice, Should Doctors? This talk presents a new history and analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) making the case that while these can be very helpful, at present they
A Shot in the Dark for Pregnant People | Dr. David Healy
From our Immunological Correspondent A Shot in the Dark (1964) was the second movie in the Pink Panther series which launched Peter Sellers’s career as the bumbling French detective, Inspector Clouseau. By a strange quirk of fate, between February 22-24, 2023, two pivotal meetings to determine the future of RSV vaccines in pregnancy were held.
Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Suicide Note | Dr. David Healy
RCPsych President responds to newspaper coverage on antidepressants 24 April 2023 Dr Adrian James, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, has written to national newspapers responding to recent articles erroneously linking antidepressants to suicide. Here is the full text of the letter. “I was disappointed to read your article, which has potential to unjustifiably