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Category Archives: Ethics

Covid queries: theory and practise

? Questioning the Pandemic, in Theory and Practise • “Long covid”. It has been said – although I believe greatly […]

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Vaccines: guilt, force or choice?

my response to an article by Sarah McInerney in The Sunday Times (12/04/20), insisting all should be vaccinated, whether they want to be or not.

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Organ donation – over my dead body!

Corporeal Appropriation Dr Christiaan Barnard Mr S___, a consultant surgeon (FRCS, Ed.) likes a good adventure. On his latest expedition, […]

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Bottled water: mineral, spring or filtered?

Think Before You Drink! Bottled water: mineral, spring or tap? Have you been duped? Have you ever been duped? Customers […]

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Churches oppose mandatory vaccination

Mandatory Vaccination An Irish broadcaster and doctor, Ciara Kelly, has suggested that religion should stay out of medicine. Forgetting religion […]

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Ethical practice and homeopathy

Homeopathic practice as an ethical problem By Fr Jacek Norkowski, MD, Ph.D (philos), OP In the following article by Fr Norkowski, […]

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Narcolepsy, politics and swine flu vaccine

Narcolepsy and Swine Flu Vaccine: HSE Sleeping on the Job It hasn’t been a good month for vaccine manufacturers or […]

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Repeal reveal ironies

Revealing Repeal Ironies I love irony, as you might have noticed from previous articles. Listening to and watching campaigners on the […]

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Pretend Paediatric Prescribing

Paediatric Prescribing: Questionable Science and Ethics On the cold night of 23rd February 1994, Karlee, from Rouleau, Canada, ventured out […]

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Medic nun loses faith in pharma

Teresa Forcades on Justice and Healthcare A rebel nun has lost her faith! Sr Teresa Forcades is a Spanish nun but […]

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Opidemic – making a killing with painkillers

America’s Opioid Abuse Epidemic TV3, the Irish television channel, has been running a series called Doctor in the House. In March 2017 it […]

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Ethically withholding and refusing treatment

Ethical Reasons to Withhold and Refuse Medical Treatment One might agree that a doctor should withhold medical treatment in certain situations. […]

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Doctor Do Harm and Doctor Death

 Do-Harm Doctors Dr Gwen Adshead in her essay “The doctor’s dilemma: is it ever good to do harm?” in the Guardian suggests […]

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Caring not killing – homeopathic euthanasia

Care for the Dying is not Killing with Homeopathy Unlike the high-priests of modern liberalism who advocate sacrificing the dying for […]

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Pain and painkillers – the painful truth

Pain and Painkillers First, a joke. Pressing his index finger against his knee, a patient says to his doctor: “Doctor, every time I […]

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How medical establishment fat cats cream it

The Medical Establishment Fat Cats The day before the Brexit referendum a group of French people travelled to London to […]

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Science fraud and misconduct

“Science Fraud is Huge” Science requests that its discoveries should be repeatable and testable. A furore was created recently when […]

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Treating pathology is mistreating

The Limits of Pathology “When we couldn’t help a patient anymore and we had got as much money as we could […]

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Unhealthy Business

Big Pharma: Unhealthy for Patients, Economy, Science and Democracy “As a MP in Nigeria, drug companies offered me houses in the […]

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Mind-brain split splits psychiatry

  During a frontal lobotomy operation, the surgeon asked the patient, “Do you know where I am now?” to which […]

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Practical homeopathy, practical nonsense

Practical Homeopathy Background The term “practical homeopathy” has finally got the better of my curiosity. I first came across it […]

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Untested drugs & off-label prescribing

“Do as I say and not as I do”  John Selden, Table-Talk c. 1654 Untested Drugs and off-label Prescribing In his […]

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Taking a case means taking sides

Spot the Difference             Ok, apart from the size, what is the difference between the two? This is important for […]

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Assisted suicide, euthanasia and Homeopathic medicine

 To get through life without harming another is a great achievement Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist Only Irish and Africans cope […]

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3 faulty models of medicine

What drives medicine? What influences the practice and outcome of medicine? It’s interesting to hear a nun, who is also a doctor, […]

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Mirena coil – misleading about bleeding?

Mirena Coil – Preventing Pre or Post Conception? Reach early forties these days and women are automatically fitted with a […]

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Some silly things doctors say

Real Medical Quotes Joke Patient: Doctor, can you prescribe something for my sleepwalking? Doctor: No, you need the exercise. A […]

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Randomised Clinical Trials: ethical? scientific?

Randomised Clinical Trials When people criticise homeopathy they are usually assuming allopathy, conventional medicine, is perfect, that it is perfectly suited […]

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GlaxoSmithKline “bribed” doctors

Naughty GSK from Argentina to China via Poland, Iraq and US An article in the Daily Telegraph today by Tom Whitehead tells […]

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Big pharma’s big lies about statins

Questioning the Status of Statins In his weekly diary in the Daily Telegraph Dr James Le Fanu tells us what […]

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How should we treat our patients..?

How not to Treat   Ok, yes I am self-righteous but sometimes we have to be self-critical and reflect on […]

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Austerity, inequality, stress damage health

Austerity Costs Austerity, inequality, stress and poor lifestyle impact negatively on health. Two useful sources of information on the topic […]

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Big pharma using patients and doctors

Hiding the Science, Hiding Behind Patients and Doctors “A leaked memo from Big Pharma industry bodies reveals strategy to combat […]

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Suicidality and a child psychiatrist’s own pathology

Suicidality and Homeopathy During the discussions and debates on Ireland’s Heads of Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill, 2013, campaigners wished […]

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Dentist cures mouth ulcers with Homeopathic medicine

For a few weeks Dr LeFanu in his weekly column on Mondays in the Daily Telegraph has defended Homeopathy. For 2 […]

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Doctor promotes mandatory vaccination!!!

Mandatory Vaccination Below is my reply to Tommy Marron, MidWest Radio who had read the letter promoting mandatory vaccination printed […]

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News and Events

NEW BOOKS: Pandemics: What Dr Hahnemann Knew and Medicine That Makes Sense: Selected Writings on Homeopathy at the Juncture of Medicine, Nutrition, Philosophy and Science, by Stephen Blendellclick here for more information

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  • news and new book on homeopathy and medicine
  • Solzhenitsyn’s cancer of stomach cured
  • Churches oppose mandatory vaccination
  • VAT the health stealth tax
  • Ethical practice and homeopathy
  • What Cartesian witch hunters can’t explain
  • Trust women – on Gardasil reactions
  • Narcolepsy, politics and swine flu vaccine
  • Repeal reveal ironies
  • “Entrenched” science, subjective experience and vitalism
  • Pretend Paediatric Prescribing
  • Miasmatic prescribing: Ghatak’s cases
  • Memories not so sweet
  • Deducing or inducing the law of cure
  • Gardasil safety and the game of thrones
  • Brazil – Homeopathy research and post-truth sceptics
  • Antibiotics – don’t finish the course
  • Medic nun loses faith in pharma
  • The unprejudiced observer
  • Hahnemann’s charitableness towards suicides
  • Parent jabs journalist over vaccines
  • Favourite stories of healing with homeopathy
  • Opidemic – making a killing with painkillers
  • Ethically withholding and refusing treatment
  • Doctor Do Harm and Doctor Death
  • Revising the revisionist histories of medicine
  • Caring not killing – homeopathic euthanasia
  • Psychiatry and homeopathy
  • Case-taking: acute, chronic and epidemic
  • Pain and painkillers – the painful truth
  • Comfrey and herbal remedies – “The greatest surprises”
  • Deficiencies: vitamins, minerals and laboratory tests
  • Hay fever – doc cocks nose at local honey
  • How medical establishment fat cats cream it
  • Science fraud and misconduct
  • Treating pathology is mistreating
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  • Unhealthy Business
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