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Tag Archives: medicine
War of the Worlds
For some reason – or maybe no particular reason at all – last night I remembered Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds radio broadcast from the 1930s. Some listeners heard only a portion of the broadcast and, in the atmosphere … Continue reading
State of Emergency
I’m glad somebody else can see it. From The Anatomy of Virtuous Corruption (my emphasis): The idea of ‘the atheist’ in the writings we have from the 17th and 18th centuries is far away from what it is now. In all the Reformation disputes … Continue reading
Callous Cruelty
A couple of quotes. First from Daniel Hannan: During a TV debate with a Greek Socialist MEP this morning, I suggested that Greece wouldn’t begin to recover until it decoupled, defaulted and devalued. The two biggest sectors of the Greek … Continue reading
Imaginative with Numbers
One of the most enigmatic figures (for me at least) in the smoking controversy is the historian Robert N. Proctor, author in 1999 of The Nazi War on Cancer, which became one of my must-buy books when I started to … Continue reading
Wanton, Wicked Cruelty
Why aren’t there more doctors who will speak up like this? Perhaps because most of them aren’t retired? H/T Belinda for this letter in the Irish Times: Sir, – I have never smoked, but as a retired hospital doctor I … Continue reading
Pull the Plug Next Time
H/T Cage Canada, for this Australian op-ed by someone called Michael Smith. It begins: Obesity is not a right The obesity epidemic provides one of the greatest challenges of political philosophy for governments since the birth of democracy… Hold on a … Continue reading
A Plague of Doctors
Simon Clark has an article about the proposal to ban smoking in cars, featuring Vivienne Nathanson of the BMA, who wrote: Ten days ago doctors at a British Medical Association meeting voted to ask the Government to legislate to ban smoking … Continue reading
