Pill_1 Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date April 9, 2025 CategoriesMedicinePsychologyScientific Freedom Tagged , Caitjan Gainty, China, culture, depression, diagnosis, dissidents, electroconvulsive therapy, King’s College, mental illness, overdiagnosis, overmedicalization, political oppression, psychiatry, Radio Free Asia, RealClearScience, Russia, schizophrenia, Soviet psychiatrists, Wang Wanxing Dissent Becomes a Mental Illness Denyse O’Leary April 9, 2025 Medicine, Psychology, Scientific Freedom 6 A healthcare historian looks at the history of the use of psychiatry to crush alternative viewpoints. Read More ›
crowd Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date August 11, 2023 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , abortionists, anti-humanism, cancer, dairy cows, David Attenborough, diagnosis, ecocide, ecosystem, electricity, food, fuel, humans, Ireland, Jack Kevorkian, Slate, stewardship, terminal illness Environmentalist Misanthropy: Humans Are Terminal Cancer Wesley J. Smith August 11, 2023 Bioethics, Medicine 4 Lest readers dismiss the author and the interviewer as fringe, anti-humanism has become a hallmark of environmentalism. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date February 22, 2018 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __k-review, authoritarianism, BBC, Charlie Gard, coercion, diagnosis, food, futile care, hospital, Italy, medicine, Rome, United Kingdom, water In the U.K., Another Shut-Off-the-Baby’s-Life-Support Case Wesley J. Smith February 22, 2018 Bioethics, Medicine 3 Forcing this baby to die when there is no diagnosis would be an act of naked medical authoritarianism. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date August 10, 2017 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __k-review, assisted suicide, Canada, diagnosis, doctors, emergency room, euthanasia, New York Times, palliative care, pills The Worst MDs Can Become Death Prescribers Wesley J. Smith August 10, 2017 Bioethics, Medicine 6 One just needs the terminal diagnosis -- sometimes mistaken -- to qualify for the lethal pills. Read More ›
