Category: Quackery

The Doctor Will Kill You Now

New career opportunities for serial killers;

The mother of a 26-year-old man who was medically euthanized—after having previously opposed her son’s assisted suicide—alleges that one medical practitioner, whom she calls “Dr. Death #2,” approved her son’s death solely “based on mental illness.”

Kiano Vafaeian was medically killed via assisted suicide. His mother, Margaret Marsilla, shared a post on Facebook Tuesday, mourning her son’s death and blaming Canada’s assisted suicide regime and Dr Ellen Wiebe for her loss. Marsilla says Wiebe approved her son’s death when no other doctor would.[…]

Wiebe is one of Canada’s leading MAiD practitioners, having overseen over 400 assisted deaths. She serves on the advisory council of Dying with Dignity Canada and is a board member and research director for another pro-euthanasia group, the Canadian Association of MAiD Assessors and Providers.

Put Down The Cookie

Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson- Weight-Loss Drugs and the Quiet Medicalisation of Everyday Life

A profound shift in how society understands body weight is occuring. Excess weight is no longer seen as the predictable outcome of ultra-processed food, sedentary work, and inequality, but as a pharmacological deficit requiring lifelong correction.

A medication that must be taken indefinitely to maintain its effect is not a public-health triumph; it is a subscription model.

Is Our Diversities Learning?

Via @WallStreetApes; immigrants from Somalia have been buying homes in Minnesota, paying cash and saying they’re being used as “home healthcare”

Tommy Douglas, Not Dead Enough

National Post: Saskatchewan doesn’t have a surgeon who can complete the surgery. She has waited years to see a specialist

A Canadian woman who got approved for a medically assisted death because of a years-long wait to receive surgery for her chronically painful condition may finally get treated. American conservative commentator Glenn Beck has offered to pay for her to have surgery in the United States.
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“If there is any surgeon in America who can do this, I’ll pay for this patient to come down here for treatment. THIS is the reality of “compassionate” progressive healthcare,” Beck said in a post on X after Jolene Van Alstine’s story spread across social media. “Canada must END this insanity and Americans can NEVER let it spread here.” […]

Her husband said he doesn’t want her to go through with her request for MAID, which has been scheduled for Jan. 7…

The Part I Like Best

About harm reduction is the way Street Outreach programs identify addiction-impacted persons in crisis and redirects them away from chemical self-actualization.

Oh well. Cheaper than MAID, I suppose. (Is it cheaper than MAID?)

What Would We Do Without Research?

Stat Modeling; (sorry about the code glitch)

The point is that I shouldn’t be so shocked to hear that Columbia medical school has prominent faculty who’ve been involved in research fraud. If you’re a medical researcher and a cheater, then research fraud is a natural step. Just as if you’re a storekeeper and a cheater, then ripping off your customers and employees is a natural step; or if you’re a statistician and a cheater, then it makes sense to hire yourself out as a data manipulator; or if you’re a CEO and a cheater, then it makes sense to fake your corporate reports; or if you sell used cars and you’re a cheater, then you’ll hide the flaws in your cars; or if you’re a university administrator and a cheater, then it makes sense to fake your U.S. News statistics . . . ulp! In all these examples, there’s a clear incentive to cheat: if you play honest, it’s easy to fall behind your competitors who could be cheating too. Indeed, you could argue that, if you play by the rules, you’d be letting the side down . . . it’s arguably unethical not to cheat. You’re developing treatments what will save lives, after all!

Via Steve McIntyre: Gelman didn’t mention the following famous statement by climate scientist Stephen Schneider

I, Napoleon

Follow the retreat;

The Olympics is increasingly likely to ban transgender athletes from all female competition following a science-based review of evidence.

Kirsty Coventry, the new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), told Telegraph Sport in January that she favoured a blanket ban and, after winning the presidency in March, commissioned a review that assessed the permanent physical advantages of being born male.

An update was provided last week to IOC members by Dr Jane Thornton, who is the committee’s medical and scientific director.

Although no final decision has been made, the update to IOC members reportedly stated that scientific evidence showed there were physical advantages to being born male that remained even after reducing testosterone levels.

And that includes these freaks;

The stricter new IOC policy could also include athletes with differences of sex development, known as DSD. The most high-profile example is Caster Semenya, who won 800m gold at London 2012 and Rio 2016.

Two boxers – Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting – won controversial gold medals at the Paris Olympics last year despite allegedly failing to meet gender eligibility criteria at the Boxing World Championships. Their sex has never been officially confirmed.

Are You Feeling The Vibrations?

When your on-campus Indigenous Healer is armed, indigenously, with a totally indigenous tuning fork:

Those touched by Ms Schenandoah’s uncanny powers will learn that the forest is “a relative, not a resource,” and that birds “sing in the morning because they’re happy.” Quality stuff.

Armed with such arcane skills, Ms Schenandoah – whose job description is curiously vague – will provide “a safe space where Indigenous students can cope with stress and trauma.”

Yes, the trauma of attending one of the more expensive and statusful colleges in America, with its annual fees of $70,000, its 920 acres of rolling lawns, its 20 tennis courts, and a capacious ice-skating pavilion.

One of these.

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