RxISK: Leemon B. McHenry, co-author of
The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine: Exposing the Crisis of Credibility in Clinical Research (Wakefield Press, 2020), reviews the first novel published by David Healey’s international writers’ co-operative, Samizdat Health.
“Malcharist, by Paul John Scott, is a fictional account of one of psychiatry’s most influential key opinion leaders (KOLs), his ghostwriter, and a journalist on the trail of a big scandal in the world of Big Pharma. The story didn’t happen in reality, but Scott has done his homework in such a way that one of medicine’s darkest secrets is exposed in all of its sordid detail.
Making Pakistan Proud, Professor Khalid Khan Excels In Fields of Health Science Research
With the pandemic wreaking havoc across the globe, one of the most important things that have helped curtail the spread thus far has been medical research. However, there is still an apprehension when participating in research, especially that for covid-19.
Distinguished investigator, Professor Khalid Khan, who has dedicated his expertise to Pakistan while working with Dr. Ghazna Siddiqui, the advisor to Prime Minister Imran Khan on health emergency, explains:
“It’s unfortunate for people to have the perception that participating in research is an experiment and receiving care for covid-19 outside research is not. The real experiment is the provision of care without evidence for something that did not exist before.”
In Canada, doctors are actually being overtly threatened by their governing bodies to stop saying what they believe to be true in their hearts and minds. Instead, all doctors are commanded to follow in lock step with ‘public health orders and recommendations.’ The tweet below from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario needs no additional commentary. As written, it already incriminates itself.
Now you may be wondering how we have gotten to this place of rabid censorship in the medical profession so quickly. I would like you to consider that this has not happened overnight, but rather has been a slow, measured process that goes all the way back to when John D. Rockefeller created a medical monopoly that exclusively supported allopathic medicine a little over a century ago. Using his power to marginalize as ‘quackery’ thousands of years of holistic tradition and knowledge, Rockefeller created a top-down empire that was fundamentally designed as a business for the
The number of UK-wide infections recorded today are up slightly on the 2,657 last Thursday, a rise of about 8 per cent, but the national case rate has largely remained stable since April.