A Measurable Harm, an Unmeasured Risk In a recent Spectator article, “All Hail the Chickenpox Vaccine!”, Toby Young shares a harrowing personal experience involving his newborn son, poor care and a near‑fatal brush with chickenpox. It is a moving and powerful story. At the end of the piece, Young suggests that women of childbearing age […]
Tag: ethics
Lest We Forget Part 4 – A Voice to the Silenced
‘Lest We Forget’ is a five part series written by headmaster Hugh McCarthy and published in UKColumn, in which he pulls apart the disaster of lockdowns and school closures for children. In part 4, he looks at the experiences of teachers and carers.
“Covid-19: The pandemic revealed the most cowardly society of all time”
A hard hitting article from Brazilian human rights activist, Filipe Rafaeli, on the cowardice and diminution of societies across the world when faced with propaganda on a parr with WWII.
C-19 Inquiry Module 8 – Children and Young People
‘‘It was recognised that government policies and measures were KNOWINGLY causing HUGE HARM to children and young people and that they were paying a HUGE price to protect the rest of society.’’ “There has been no proper explanation for such an EGREGIOUS FAILING…to have recognised that you are INTENTIONALLY doing something that is likely to cause harm…recognise that is IT IS causing harm and yet not having done the work to put in to mitigation or a reduction in those harms is simply inexplicable and has not been explained.’’ This from the KC to the NI Children’s Commissioner.
HPV Vaccines and Ethics
Part 3 of this series looks at the ethics around some of the efforts to overcome ‘vaccine hesistancy’. When does encouragement become coercion?
School Closures/Lockdowns:
Guest author Hugh McCarthy, retired headteacher who also served on two of Northern Ireland’s Education Councils, writes in detail about the harms of lockdowns on children. The politicians knew but carried on regardless…
Why did healthcare professionals disregard ethical guidance during the covid event?
An earlier HART article described how, throughout the covid event, health care professionals (doctors, nurses, psychologists, behavioural scientists) habitually behaved in ways that were at odds with their ethical codes. The moral imperatives of delivering effective interventions, doing no harm, ensuring informed consent, avoiding perceived conflicts of interest, and whistle blowing upon witnessing unacceptable behaviour of colleagues, were all widely disregarded during the ‘pandemic’. In this second article, Gary Sidley explores the key reasons for this mass abandonment of ethical principles…
Revisiting my August 2021 letter to Government about the “Handling of The Covid Pandemic”
Dr Jonathan Engler revisits an open letter he wrote in 2021 to the leaders of the four nations. Looking back from 4 years later, there is much to add. But though many of the orignial signatories will share his increasing scepticism, the recipients of all our letters are still as entrenched as ever!
Behind Closed Doors
The shocking evidence heard in the Scottish Covid Inquiry about how people in care homes were denied dignity, love and ultimately life through withdrawal of healthcare during covid has now been echoed in England. Together held a panel discussion including the voices of whistleblowers who have not been heard and addressing fears that the inquiry will not join the dots on the evidence and that damaging new law will embed these practices if any kind of emergency is announced in future…
Killing not Care
Module 6 of the UK C-19 Inquiry has just completed taking evidence, and much of it has been very harrowing. The overwhelming impression is of numerous unnecessary deaths, not from covid-19 but from loneliness, neglect, dehydration, denial of access to basic medical care, and most seriously the blanket application of DNAR notices across care homes for the elderly and even for young adult with disabilities, often without the patient’s consent or the family’s knowledge. Read this and tell me that the Terminally Ill (End of Life) Bill will be remotely equipped to prevent abuse and coercion.
Let’s not forget the mass casualties of the covid RESPONSE – Part III
In this, the third (and final) article of this series highlighting the mass casualties of the response to a purported ‘deadly virus’, Dr Gary Sidley prompts us all to remember the victims of the ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ orders and the overuse of the powerful sedative drug Midazolam.
DNA screening for every baby
According to Health Secretary Wes Streeing, “Within a decade, every newborn will undergo whole genome sequencing, which assesses the risk of hundreds of diseases.” Will advances in genomics allow people to “leapfrog” killer illnesses and receive “personalised” health care or will it just lead to more fear mongering about future health and a bonanza for the pharmaceutical industry?
Pick of the Week 20th July
SSRIs another market spinner?; Which countries rejected the WHO health regulations?; Lord Alton pushing back on the twin disasters of legalising late abortions and assisted dying; and finally say NO to digital ID.
Have healthcare professionals abandoned their ethical codes?
Explicit ethical principles and values have long been recognised as constituting essential frameworks to guide the day-to-day activities of professionals working in healthcare. Any newly qualified practitioner – doctor, nurse, psychologist, therapist – is routinely directed towards the relevant ‘code of ethics’ document and told that it is imperative to abide by these doctrines throughout their career.
Yet, despite their purported importance in ensuring sound clinical practice, throughout the covid event, these foundational guidelines were habitually ignored by all of the healthcare professions…
The Curse of Masks in Health and Social Care:
Why are some care homes still restricting visitors and insisting on mask wearing? Have the elderly residents not suffered enough? This article includes testimony from the Scottish Covid Inquiry.
Pick of the Week – 1st November
This week’s selection includes use of DNACPR notices on the elderly and disabled leading to a police investigation in Scotland.
Meanwhile in the US, workers have won compensation for job losses due to vaccine mandates, and a health board in Idaho has voted to pull Covid-19 vaccines from their health clinics.
Canada hits rock bottom, with so-called ‘assisted dying’ aka ‘state-endorsed killing’ of a young man with a devastating vaccine injury. If you haven’t yet written to your MP about the End of Life Bill coming back to Westminster on 22nd November, now is the moment.
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill had its frist reading on 16th October. Yhe Welsh parliament have voted against it. An open leeter to the Prime Minister is included in this article.
RIP Dr Jackie Stone, The COVID Hero
On Thursday 3rd October 2024, Dr Jackie Stone ended her life and a light went out in the world. Hounded by the medical authorities for seeking to give her patients the best care she could offer and stripped of her medical licence and her raison d’être. A shocking indictment of the world we live in.
