The claims by Government Covid adviser Susan Michie that she never advocated use of fear to influence behaviour are contradicted by her published statements and papers, says Dr David Seedhouse.
The danger of the Sudiksha Thirumalesh ruling is that, following its logic, the state could declare all dissenters from official 'facts' to be mad, says Dr David Seedhouse.
19 year-old Sudiksha Thirumalesh died last month after a court ruled she was not mentally competent to override her doctors' view that her treatment should cease. But was this right, asks Dr David Seedhouse.
A 27 year-old footballer, Maddy Cusack, has died, and suddenly a media that is awash with speculation on all kinds of tenuous subjects has no curiosity to find out why, says Dr David Seedhouse.
The UK's pandemic plan was clear that lockdowns were not to be used and ethics was to be central. Both of these were ditched in March 2020, says Dr David Seedhouse. Yet the Covid Inquiry has shown no interest in why.
Dr David Seedhouse, who created the Ethical Grid 35 years ago as a tool to guide ethical decision-making, says lockdown would have been avoided if politicians learned how to think ethically.
Monkeypox is a well-known virus, studied by scientists for decades, spread by close contact and has established treatments. So why has the NHS website recently been altered to add an isolation requirement?
If we are ever to have meaningful democracy, superficial non-solutions like token petition sites must be seen for what they are and replaced by systems where we can make our own decisions without Government censorship.
The Government's big mistake with COVID-19 was throwing ethics out the window without a second thought, so no one reflected on whether it was justified so egregiously to trample on people's fundamental rights.
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