A version of this post was first published in 2007. It has been republished in the light of the Gosport hospital case . The Daily Mail h...

A version of this post was first published in 2007. It has been republished in the light of the Gosport hospital case . In 1989, there was...

Were we to find a chemical in the water, or in food, that was damaging children’s growth and their brains worldwide, and thus their intellec...

A pill made from the leaves of the olive tree could be a powerful weapon in the fight against heart disease, scientists say. According to r...

In a recent newspaper there was a piece asserting, ‘you are playing Russian roulette if you take such and such drugs without having them pre...

copy of a letter to a philosopher It is really terrible that with the appalling legislation that is constantly being made, which in many cas...

The Daily Mail (and no doubt others as well) has got the idea that some health and behavioural problems, such as drug-taking, may be genet...

The Mail led the way in highlighting how NICE, the Government’s drugs rationing body, was denying life-prolonging treatments to cancer patie...

In Tuesday’s Daily Mail there is an article headed: Pharmacists are selling more and more drugs over the counter to patients who haven’t co...

To make the obvious explicit in the case of Princess Diana contrasted with the Queen Mother, the reason I say I find modern psychology incom...

Debbie Purdy is a woman suffering from multiple sclerosis who thinks she may, in the future, wish to commit suicide with the assistance of t...

Another terrible development which has not yet come about, but soon will, and which as usual we are prevented from speaking out against by l...

At my last seminar an Iraqi lady commented that the way we had been treated sounded like what happened in an authoritarian regime, only wher...

A form of torture practised by the medical 'profession', and in many ways the most horrifying, is the infliction of suffering, in th...

Now that it is considered acceptable for the state to transfer power from individual citizens to agents of the collective so that 'servi...

In theory, removing organs on this basis [presumed consent] can be made to sound humane, but remember the law of unintended consequences. A...

In 1989, there was another life crisis when Marjorie’s mother, then in her 70s, had a series of increasingly severe strokes. ‘The hospital w...

Recently the Daily Mail reported that 1 in every 2 GPs said that patients (victims) over the age of 60 were not worth diagnosing or treatin...

Terrifying legislation is constantly proposed and my philosophy department remains unfinanced and hamstrung. Appallingly, it is proposed th...

Extracts from an article by Esther Rantzen about her daughter suffering from ME When I saw my once active, energetic daughter walking heavil...