Categories for Healthcare and Treatment
Solving the Crimes of the Pharmaceutical Industry
The pharmaceutical industry is much too keen on new drugs and prone to conceal risk and exaggerate benefit. But radical proposals to overhaul it will fail. What can practically be done to improve it?
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The Crimes of the Pharmaceutical Industry
The pharmaceutical industry is not fit for purpose. It commits widespread fraud – many if not most medicines are overpriced junk. It spends more on marketing than research. Is there a better way?
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Funding of Promising Research into COVID-19 Treatment Withdrawn Without Explanation
Laboratory results in 2020 showed fish liver oil destroyed 99.9% of SARS-CoV-2 within 10 minutes. Why then was the funding for this promising research withdrawn without explanation?
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Long Covid Study Shows High Rates of Serious Vaccine Side-Effects
A study on Long Covid in Nature included data that show up to 4% of the vaccinated sought medical care for vaccine side-effects, but the authors failed to mention this astounding result.
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How I Handled the Covidians at the Dentist
Many dental surgeries continue to be stuck in April 2020 with their excessive Covid rules and precautions. Navigating them as a sceptic can be tricky and require composure to remain calm at all times.
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Spread a Little Scepticism
Do some people within healthcare like it when sceptics push against the pointless Covid rules that are dragging on and on?
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NHS Website Quietly Changes its Monkeypox Guidance to Add a Requirement To Isolate
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?
Read more What’s So Special About Monkeypox?
In 2019, almost 200 people contracted gonorrhoea every day. Gonorrhoea is pretty nasty, fairly infectious, widespread and on the increase. What’s so special about monkeypox, that we're making a fuss about 70 cases?
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Why Has Boris Johnson Appointed an NHS Manager With a Questionable Track Record to the Top of the Civil Service?
Why has Boris Johnson appointed as a new top civil servant an NHS manager whose stint in strategic restructuring was criticised as lacking clear direction, evaluation or benefit?
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More Reasons to Doubt the Covid Vaccines Really Deliver 90% Protection Against Death
If the vaccines prevent 90% of Covid deaths, why aren't more unvaccinated people dying, and why were deaths in many countries higher after the vaccine rollout?
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