The Self-Hating Age: How Oikophobia is Dissolving the West
11 September 2024
by A. Gibson
News Round-Up
11 September 2024
In another case of 'you couldn't make it up', there's a campaign underway to 'decolonise' exams by letting students sit their own personalised ones they could never fail. What could possibly go wrong, asks Steven Tucker.
The NHS's latest job ad is for a "Senior Fellow" in mutilating women. This is where the millions go, says David Craig.
The 'Green Physician Toolkit' is just the latest move from the climate ideologues who have colonised medicine, intent on turning a once scientific profession into a den of activism, says Ben Pile.
NHS waiting lists sit at record levels, yet the Royal College of Physicians finds time to produce a Green Physician Toolkit, which reads like a parody and would be amusing if it wasn't so serious, says our in-house doctor.
Hundreds of doctors and scientists from around the world have signed an accord calling for the suspension and investigation of mRNA Covid vaccines due to serious concerns about their safety and efficacy.
Even AI knows the MHRA is failing us on vaccine safety, says Nick Hunt. Its answers were spot on as it called for "urgent attention" to be given to "systemic issues" of failure to spot and investigate safety problems.
Dr. Mark Porter has declared that he is taking statins, having decided the benefits outweigh the risks. Dr. Maggie Cooper suggests he should be more suspicious of studies from drugs companies and think again.
Weight loss drug Ozempic cuts heart attack risk by 20% – according to the trial funded by its manufacturer. But are we being told the full story, asks David Craig.
"Healthcare is much more corrupt than people think, and industry money goes everywhere, to politicians, medical journals, newspapers etc.," says Cochrane co-founder Professor Peter Gøtzsche.
Which profession let us down the worst in Covid, getting behind the awful lockdown restrictions and public health coercion with unseemly zeal? It's a close call, says Dr James Allan, but doctors are definitely up there.
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