This week, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) published a ‘Green Physician Toolkit‘. The toolkit from perhaps the world’s oldest professional organisation, founded by royal charter in the early 16th century, has caused an eruption of incredulous comment. Controversy has been created by the fact that, as well as the planet-saving advice such as “Generate less waste” and “Limit the environmental impact of travel”, the toolkit suggested doctors “Reduce unnecessary prescribing” and “Limit diagnostic activities”. Journalists have been asking whether the RCP is asking doctors to put green ideology before care. But worse, the toolkit is evidence of a deadly virus spreading throughout professional institutions. This vicious pathogen erodes professional standards and ethics and dissolves institutions’ founding principles.
The idea of a climate “toolkit” for doctors may sound familiar. That’s because it’s not a new idea. Earlier this year the WHO published precisely the same thing – a “toolkit” that the WHO claimed is “designed to equip health and care workers with the knowledge and confidence to effectively communicate about climate change and health”. But the toolkit seemed more designed for GCSE students than for people with advanced degrees in medicine. Trite, condescending, shallow in detail and containing conjecture in place of fact, the WHO’s missive was an injunction – holy green orders – to proselytise. And now it seems that the RCP has done the WHO’s bidding.
There is not much more to say about the RCP’s reproduction of the WHO’s toolkit itself that has not already been said. Suffice it to say that if doctors are running too many diagnostic tests, or prescribing drugs unnecessarily, then these are problems in their own right, and the doctor’s first and only duty is towards the patient’s health, not the planet’s “health”, which should be of no concern to doctors and nurses, nor their managers. The tension between these two putative beneficiaries of clinicians’ work speaks to the antagonism posited by environmentalism between “Nature” and humanity. On the green view, industrial and economic development, which have indubitably raised living standards, are unsustainable at current rates. The greater good can only be served by limiting or reversing that development. And that has to have consequences for human welfare. In other words, the WHO’s and RCP’s toolkits really are a green utilitarian ‘greater good’ injunction to begin rationing medicine for Gaia’s benefit. That tension is intractable.
Here on the Daily Sceptic, our in-house doctor advises that most physicians will simply ignore the RCP toolkit. But the danger, he adds, is in the institutional capture made possible by just a small number of administrators, and perhaps people with clinical expertise, taking the WHO and RCP’s work at face value. Already, notes the doctor, the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP2) and the General Medical Council (GMC) have made climate interventions. And the problem must be taken seriously: institutional capture cannot be challenged by doctors merely ignoring their colleagues’ cult-like behaviour. And the RCP2 and GMC are not the only institutions of medicine that are now annexes of the Green Blob.
Founded in 1823, the Lancet is yet another British medical institution. Though it is privately owned, it is a prestigious weekly journal that publishes research and commentary on a range of public policies, sometimes only very loosely connected with medicine. According to its Editor Richard Horton, “the climate emergency that we are facing today is the most important existential crisis facing the human species”. It is nonsense, of course. There is no science, for example, produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to support the claim that climate change is an “existential crisis”, much less evidence showing how that crisis compares to other risk factors. Even the RCP’s toolkit, for example, claims that globally, climate change “is projected [by the IPCC] to cause an excess of 250,000 deaths per year by 2050”. A quarter of a million deaths each year is certainly nothing to be blasé about. But on a global scale, how does it compare to other risk factors? Data on mortality risk compiled by Oxford University’s Our World in Data website put that figure into perspective.
The IPCC itself says those annual deaths in 2050 will be caused by “heat, undernutrition, malaria and diarrheal disease”. Horton is simply wrong. Grotesquely wrong. And the IPCC itself is likely also wrong. Deaths from malaria are half what they were in the early 2000s – down by more than three times the IPCC’s estimate of climate-related deaths in 2050. Diarrheal diseases claimed 1.17 million lives in 2021 – a fall of 1.76 million since 1990. That’s seven times the 2050 mortality estimate. 778,091 were killed by nutritional deficiencies in 1980. Mortality from that cause in 2021 was more than two thirds lower, at 222,274 – again, by a multiple of the number of climate-related fatalities predicted for 2050. And even if one could make an argument that climate change could negatively influence such grim statistics, the fatalities attributed to Nth-order effects of climate change are much lower-order consequences of poverty. Solve the problem of poverty – a far better understood and far less intractable ‘problem’ than climate change – and the “existential threat” of climate change goes away.
But is Horton interested in facts, or is the notion of an “existential threat” serving some other purpose? Horton goes on to claim that, “since medicine is all about protecting and strengthening the human species, it should be absolutely foundational to the practice of what we do, every single day”, and so “doctors and all health professionals have a responsibility and obligation to engage in all kinds of non-violent social protest to address the climate emergency”. If Horton was truly interested in human welfare over ideological partisanship, he would surely have commissioned studies showing how the progress of developing and emerging economies in eliminating poverty had been dependent on fossil fuels – including the half of the world’s population that is dependent on synthetic fertiliser, produced from natural gas. But instead, the Lancet produces an annual report called ‘Lancet Countdown‘ which emphasises false, misleading and unscientific claims in order to influence political decisions, rather than inform wider public debate.
Another prestigious organisation is the British Medical Association (BMA) – a trade union for physicians, founded in the early 19th Century – which also publishes a weekly journal, the British Medical Journal (BMJ). And the BMA and BMJ, too, have been on quite a journey from their founding purpose to green ideological activism. In 2016, the two organisations helped to set up the U.K. Health Alliance on Climate Change (UKHACC) – an association of 48 member organisations in healthcare, including the Association of Anaesthetists, the British Dental Association, the Paediatric Critical Care Society and many more.
The UKHACC, though nearly a decade old, and housed at the BMA’s address in Tavistock Square, London, recently became a charitable organisation, but has no shame in explaining its purpose as political lobbying. It published a manifesto in the run-up to the 2024 U.K. General Election and clearly states its intention to “influence decision makers to strengthen policies responding to the climate and ecological crisis”, among other equally questionable things. When the General Medical Council’s (GMC) Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service suspended Just Stop Oil protester Dr. Sarah Benn, following her criminal prosecution, the UKHACC lobbied the GMC, demanding that it “avoid being on the wrong side of history”. The UKHACC appears not to believe that doctors should face any consequences for criminal acts, despite their privileged and respected positions in society.
But what do the doctors, nurses, dentists and other healthcare professionals who are members of the 48 associations that comprise the UKHACC membership think of their representative organisations’ commitment to this political campaigning organisation? Was there a vote? Was there a debate? What happens to members of the BMA itself, or the UKHACC’s membership, who want to disagree? UKHACC boasts that is “an alliance of U.K.-based health organisations representing about one million health professionals”, providing “leadership, and amplifying the voice of health professionals”. But what is the substance of this association?
With no debates, no votes and apparently no deliberation, the “alliance” looks less like an association of people with expertise than something resembling the Midwich Cuckoos – Midwit Cuckolds, perhaps. The alignment of so many professional organisations with such ease should strike us as suspicious.
The point of a professional association, be it teachers, lawyers, architects or clinicians – all of whom have been drawn into the climate wars – is surely to reciprocate and secure the trust that society places in these professionals. They are exceptional, and so held to higher standards by these self-governing organisations of peers. But when we look closely at the work, for example, of the Lancet and its Editor, we find extremely high-pitched rhetoric and unscientific claims where we would expect expertise. Back in 2020, I asked Horton to explain how he had determined that climate change is “the most important existential crisis”, compared with other mortality risks. No reply was forthcoming. I have also exchanged views with doctors defending the Lancet’s, RCP’s and UKHACC’s interventions. Their replies are invariably little more than to call me a “denier”. Their views, then, are no better substantiated than those of a bloke at the pub. And he has a didgeridoo and a dog on a string, the worse for wear on so much cider and ketamine.
The point of the professional association, therefore, seems less about enforcing standards than lowering the standards expected of “professionals”. Rather than vehicles through which peers hold each other to account, putting the reputation of the profession above everything else, the associations have become mechanisms for enforcing political dogma. The goal of professional associations like the RCP now is, in part, to leverage the trust the public places in medical professionals to make green propaganda more likely to be believed. That’s a long way from their original scientific ethos.
The condition of this infection is anomie – “instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values or from a lack of purpose or ideals”. Only doctors – those who have yet to be infected by it – can stop the spread. But it cannot be stopped by ignoring it and hoping it will get better. Doctors must form their own new associations, to argue that it is enough to be a doctor, and that aspiring to be a planet-saving superhero risks undermining the commitments that doctors make: make doctors doctors again. Physicians, heal thyselves!
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Given the remarkably successful campaign against PayPal, I believe that now would be an excellent time to campaign for a Statute of Limitations that would restrict the ways in which Government could control a future Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). The risks of a CBDC are clear and absolutely parallel to those we have seen with PayPal in that it could be used as the vehicle for the introduction of a social credit system, with financial restrictions and penalties being applied for even minor challenges to the official narrative. The principle behind such a Statute would be to limit financial penalties to those currently enforced on criminal activity, therefore putting them under the control of the criminal courts. I believe the FSU is well placed to develop a draft Statute and I would fully support a campaign to get Government to accept it.
Very naiive. The sole purpose of a digital currency is Control. No statute will protect us from the inevitable misuse. And even if it did the law would simply be overriden by a change of government
We must say no to CBDC and CASH must always be an option.
If we give up on using our democratic system to reform things, we surrender all hope. I’d rather be naive than negative.
We are not living in a democracy.
An excellent list of 43 examples of ”Anti-science”, put together by Dr Jay Bhattacharya, which we have had to endure since the whole sh!tshow began;
https://covid-unmasked.net/the-naked-emperor-anti-science-the-infinite-list/
This judicial ruling in a Swiss Court has had no coverage in the media. The reason? It destroys the claim that the mRNA injections are vaccines.
This needs to be publicised widely. Neil Oliver? Mark Steyn? Certainly above the line further detailed reporting is required.
News from
Switzerland
Supreme Court ruling Hardly anyone noticed that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. won the case against all the pharmaceutical lobbyists. Covid vaccines are not vaccines. In the ruling, the Supreme Court confirms that the damage caused by Covid mRNA gene therapies is irreparable. As the Supreme Court is the highest court in the United States, there are no further appeals and the appeals have been exhausted. Robert F. Kennedy emphasised in an initial statement that this was a success that was only possible thanks to the international cooperation of a large number of lawyers and scientists. Of course, this judgment opens up something internationally, especially here in Switzerland, this judgment should make waves, because Switzerland has a special position here with its federal constitution. On the one hand, the Nuremberg Codex in the constitution with Article 118b, and the misuse of genetic engineering in humans is prohibited in Switzerland, according to Article 119 of the Federal Constitution. This is supplemented by Article 230bis of the Criminal Code, … Thus, the perpetrators risk up to 10 years in prison. But this judgment should also make the rest of the world sit up and take notice, because the Nuremberg Code is internationally valid and is also included in Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In the case of criminal charges, the statement must include a reference to the Contergan scandal in order to give special weight to the importance of this charge. The policy is thus facing a hot autumn.
Source: https://boersenwolf.blogspot.com/2022/08/supreme-court-urteil-bestatigt-covid
No media is talking about it, neither in Switzerland nor in Europe. It’s up to us to spread the word
Sarah Swift
I can’t see anything about a Swiss court judgement, and there is no article at the link you provided. I wonder what Reiner Fuellmich is up to? I thought he was launching similar prosecutions but he seems to have gone very quiet.
It’s been removed & there is nothing on the wayback machine. Censorship is in full swing.
Not sure what Reiner Fuellmich is up to either….
It is confusing because it starts with a Swiss Court ruling the switches to it being the US Supreme Court ruling.
Apparently there has been no such ruling. It looks like it is a fake story.
Link here: https://covid-unmasked.net/us-supreme-court-rules-against-covid-mrna-gene-therapy-robert-kennedy-wins-case/
Wow!
Thanks for this BB.
A piece ATL surely?
This is totally off topic, but I wonder if anyone can help me? I am looking for a video that I viewed via a link from this site about vaccine damage. It was professionally produced and I think around half an hour long. It had many interviews with vaccine damaged people and showed the effect on them (one man could no longer stand up). It was on you tube, but unsurprisingly I can’t find it there, and I have been through the archive here as well but can’t find it. Many thanks in advance if someone can give me a link.
This one?
https://www.oraclefilms.com/safeandeffective
Yes, that’s the one. Very many thanks.
Surprisingly, it’s still on youtube:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIVZ5ssWB-o
Thanks for the link. Here’s what it looked like (with a warning alternative link in it!) recently; note the numbers.
Oh yes, I hadn’t noticed that. I wonder how many click the link to the NHS website? Hopefully, they all watch the film first.
That link turns up on all the YT entries I look at – I never follow them. They look a but ironic on some of them, especially the latest John Campbell ones!
The Oracle Films one is pretty robust, and well put together. The techniques used reminded me of certain old TV programmes, like “Panorama”, “That’s Life”, or :Horizon” etc – a bit long and a bit repetitive to make the point. Perhaps the producer came from that field, one way or another? So far, there do not seem to be any negative comments re the production itself; perhaps that’s no surprise, but there are lot of them, which is quite encouraging.
Yes, I liked the film. Also, I liked their films about the protests in Spring/Summer 21.
Then there is this report which needs to be addressed ATL in which vials seized in a correct procedural process for presentation of evidence in court, were analysed for their contents by an independent laboratory (owned by Dr Tess Lawrie).
Please Will, Toby et al this is important. As we now know that the “vaccines” are gene therapy, that the “vaccines” cause spike protein induced dementia, myocarditis which are permanent damage & will shorten life expectancy by 10-20 years in the young, if they last that long, then the very survival of humanity is at stake.
What’s really in the vaccines??
We now have scientific proof straight from the labs and it’s truly shocking ….independently analysed to make an honest account of the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Are the police really doing their job when they are turning a blind eye to this evidence.
Download the report yourself and read http://www.ukcitizen2021.org
Or read it directly here: https://ijvtpr.com/index.php/IJVTPR/article/view/52/96
Cristian Terhes MEP
@CristianTerhes
Just facts: in July 2022 the excess mortality rate in the EU was 16% higher compared to the average of 2016-2019 (Eurostat). The most vaccinated countries in the EU have now the highest mortality rate.
Do you think that COVID vaccination caused the excess deaths?
JOSE GEFAELL
@ChGefaell
EuroMoMo cumulated excess deaths week 40. Excess deaths in 2022 continue to grow and remain higher than in 2020 and 2021.
Source: https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps
Craig Kelly
@CKellyUAP
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Sep 30
ABS releases EXCESS DEATHS data – AND IT’S A SHOCKER
We now have 13,524 ‘excess deaths’ across Australia for the first six months of the year
That’s 17.1% above the baseline of what would be expected
Baffling, they say
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION NEEDED, I say
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23028843.covid-scotland-vaccines-ruled-cause-neonatal-deaths-spike/
Helen McArdle Health Corespondent
PUBLIC health experts ruled out any link between spikes in neonatal deaths and the Covid vaccine without checking whether any of the infants’ mothers had received the jag during pregnancy.
Experts stressed that there was no “plausible” link between the unusually high levels of mortality among newborns in September last year and March this year to justify investigating maternal vaccination status. ..….
the rest is behind a paywall..but points for using the word Jag!!
Public health experts or three wise monkeys.
https://data.spectator.co.uk/graph/a-e-12-hour-waits-to-admit
shocking little graph in the spectator..showing A+E 12 hour wait….number of patients waiting > 12 hours from decision to admit, to admission.
With the NHS seemingly ever closer to collapse, how long are people waiting to be treated in A&E? The Spectator looks at the NHS’s data on how many patients are waiting more than 12 hours to be seen.
7.058 In Oct 2021
16.402 in Feb 2022
32.776 in Sept 2022
The Lionel Shriver article is spot on and scary. We are observing since quite a while that younger people in particular are incapable of reading and understanding basic stuff when encountering them in the business world. Most also need and use a calculator when giving change.
As for doctors, it seems completely hopeless.
Our new tenants are medical students at ICL. They are quadruple gene-therapied, don’t know that the definition of vaccine was changed to accommodate for them,
think that they work like regular vaccines and are just in awe of and got enthusiastically jabbed because of this ‘cute story’, namely that an African immigrant (he is actually Turkish) already had the solution ready when the disease occurred.
The only chance us older folks now have to live a long, healthy life is to live more healthy and take vitamins regularly.
We cannot count on the medical profession anymore to get us sorted when we become ill once our GenX doctors retire!
I agree, JB. We have to become our own doctors now. Personally, I haven’t taken any pharmaceutical drugs for ages. If TPTB decide to go ahead and medicate our water with fluoride, the cognitive decline in our young will accelerate. That combined with the effects of stronger and constant EMF, such as 5G and smart meters, the addiction to mobile phones and bluetooth headphones, rubbish nutrition and jabs will all contribute to people getting sicker earlier in life with all sorts of mental, emotional and physical issues.
…and all because he asked for a peaceful resolution…this is music to my ears….
LOL!
Jason Jay Smart@officejjsmart
Elon Musk’s Starlink says it can no longer afford to give Ukraine free service and asks the Pentagon to pay for it. Starlink had been a game changer in the war.
This comes days after Ukrainian Ambassador Melnyk Andrij told Musk to “fuck off.”
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Replying to @officejjsmart
and @MelnykAndrij
We’re just following his recommendation……
Tulsi Gabbard on Joe Rogan….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAfwpfUBw1M
Ukraine and the Military Industrial Complex.
“People are being forced to visit food banks and unable to heat their homes. I have been seriously depressed to see this government add to their suffering while giving tax handouts to the wealthy. Just Stop Oil gives a simple message: no more oil and gas licences. Let’s start creating a world where we care for everyone.'”
My emphases.
You couldn’t make this utter stupidity up!
Apologies. The above is from the report in the Mail about the eco nutters causing mayhem in London, including preventing an ambulance from getting through.
Kwasi SACKED.
Truss seems hopeless. The budget didn’t make much sense (I am all for cutting taxes but you also need to cut spending) and sacking Kwarteng makes no sense either, and Jeremy C**t is tipped as a replacement – the arch covid fascist.
Truss, like May and Johnson was a disaster before she got the top gig. She obviously is not in control and is just a puppet. The worry now is that the evil sod Hunt is being prepared for a quick move next door.
I wonder how much interfering Bliar is up to?
I agree except for the puppet bit – think she’s just weak and is yet another woolly liberal globalist. Bliar’s interference has been immense but again I think it’s not like he is making phone calls to get people sacked, but who knows? I’m approaching retirement, in good health – I wonder if I will ever see an actually conservative leader of the Tory party.
Hunt has the job.
Thanks, seen it. Very dangerous.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/pfizer-executives-freudian-slip-has-given-the-vaccine-game-away/
“Worth reading in full.”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-wrong-doers-who-are-desperate-to-move-on-from-covid/
A powerful article from Paul Collits over at TCW and he like many here wants revenge.
I am delighted to mention that he has singled out the rapist’s dad in Wales for particular opprobrium.
Hunt as Chancellor. Firkin hell. Thick but dangerous.
He’s a lockdown fanatic.
He certainly was, but in his new job he might learn how much it all cost, with any luck. We certainly live in interesting times. Anyone betting on whether Hunt will stick to Halloween for the budget (the announced date for the next Kwasi one)? What should emerge on 19/10 is September inflation figures – which affect lots of pension scheme payment rises next financial year. We’ll see if CPI was reduced on account of the Royal Funeral, or it could be the other way round, depending on what retail did, e.g.
I guess that the Permanent Sec has already written the script, and they’ll be chewing over whether to wait until after the 19th or to go early – or even announe it on the same day, although traditionally Budgets are Tuesdays; we’ll see.
Well he’s not a conservative and he’s a lockdown fanatic in arguably the second most senior position in govt, well poised to take over as leader in due course. Thought we had seen the last of him. Nasty piece of work.
He could be poised to move next door – but remember what happened to old Gordon, when he made such a move. Even many Labour supporters didn’t like him (I was a Labour activist then, and it was hard work persuading the voters to vote Labour when he became the leader). These days I’m not a member of any party, though.
Looks like we may have seen some clever maneuvering from the left wing of the Tory party to get their man in through the back door
Truss has scrapped the cut in Corporation Tax. So much for growth. Back to same tax and spend, big govt as Labour, LibDems, SNP, Tories since Thatcher.
Which suggests this lot are fully committed to the destruction of the economy as per the Reset.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/paris-about-boost-military-interventionism-eastern-europe/5796255
France is now sabre rattling and plans on invading Romania. Doubtless some of our lads will get dragged in when this inevitably goes tits up.
It’s a good day for arms manufacturers who are reaping a seemingly never-ending harvest. I can’t stand all the theatrics and that clown Zelensky and his clownish messages about the other clown Macron. All little men playing war with other people’s sons and daughters.
https://expose-news.com/2022/10/14/government-reports-suggest-covid-vaccination-is-causing-cancer-at-an-unprecedented-rate/
I’m pleased report that at least one of Bill Gates’ investments is struggling: Beyond Meat
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63260645
The level of hypocrisy by this executive is mind blowing!
Clearly the man just wasn’t getting enough meat… He looks like a career criminal in that pic.
“Inflation is believed to be an underlying factor exerting pressure on the category as consumers trade down into cheaper forms of protein, including animal meat,”
“animal meat” eh. That’s a novelty.
https://reclaimthenet.org/cfpb-considers-paypal-investigation/
This is strange, a government agency suggesting they might prosecute PayPal.
Arse covering more like.
Given that Robert Kennedy Jnr has won his case against Pharma via SOTUS should that not mean that EUA must terminate immediately? And if so what are the implications for other countries such as the UK?