Psychiatrist in eating disorders.
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4 Jul 2025
Absolutely agree
Mental illness is part of the human condition. It's hard for us to accept but it's true. There never will be "one approach" that solves mental illness. Sometimes (most of the time) noone is to blame.
4 Jul 2025
The idea that ALL mental illnesses could be prevented by avoiding trauma, poverty and unhealthy habits is an omnipotent fantasy that everything can be controlled.
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18 Jun 2025
Helpful article, the arguments could be applied to most "zero" campaigns
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The zero suicide approach: style over substance | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/44ura8H
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23 Mar 2025
"Lockdowns are not suitable for every country. In the pandemic, richer nations pressured low- and middle-income countries to introduce lockdowns, with disastrous consequences... the result was massive impoverishment which will take years to recover from."
From today's guardian
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29 Nov 2024
Some truths that need to be applied to assisted dying:
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State power is not experienced by everyone the same
Doctors and judges do not know the inner workings of an individual's mind
Power tends to expand when given the opportunity
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29 Nov 2024
"very small number of people"
In Holland, >5% of all deaths are from assisted dying, and the number increases every year
29 Nov 2024
See all the famously robust Elon lads are annoyed by this.
What is being proposed is not a “state suicide service”
It is for a very small number of people with judicial and medical safeguards. It does not provide for suicide on demand. Its opponents have good arguments. They don’t have to restort to outlandishly mischaracterise what is being proposed.
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Robert Freudenthal retweeted
27 Nov 2024
Meet @DrJBhattacharya just nominated by Trump as the new NIH Director
“Lockdowns were an enormous & catastrophic mistake.. We should recoil with horror.. Covid policies violated medical ethics & crushed ability for physicians/scientists to discuss facts/evidence.. many silenced"
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13 Nov 2024
Oh dear, if "there will be psychiatrists involved" is considered an adequate safeguard then help us all
12 Nov 2024
“How would anyone know if someone had been coerced [into assisted dying]?”
@vicderbyshire presses Christine Jardine, Lib Dem MP for Edinburgh West and supporter of the latest assisted dying bill, about the safeguards for the proposed new law.
#Newsnight
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Robert Freudenthal retweeted
9 Oct 2024
In today’s @PrivateEyeNews, I ask why lead prosecution expert Dr Dewi Evans has not even been contacted by @Thirlwall_Inq to give a statement and to give evidence. He diagnosed definitive murders where dozens of others had failed, and he thinks if he’d been called in earlier, he would’ve stopped Letby in her tracks. Surely the inquiry needs to hear this? I also don’t understand why the police have not been in touch with him after he passed on another 25 suspicious cases over a year ago (and has recently spotted a 26th). And finally, I don’t understand how all the independent experts for the prosecution spotted murder and attempted murder but no substandard care. Whereas experts who have looked at the case notes since, have spotted seriously substandard care but no definitive evidence of murder. How can experts looking at the same notes hold such different views? All in @PrivateEyeNews
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6 Oct 2024
V helpful article exploring the question of why (unlike those fleeing other wars to seek safety) there is no campaign to grant Gazan refugees asylum, for those that seek it*
6 Oct 2024
In this article, I try to explain why states & the UN have denied Palestinians in Gaza the supposedly universal right to seek asylum from danger:
against-inhumanity.org/2024/…
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6 Oct 2024
*for me, this contributes to the dehumanisation of Gazans and others caught up in this conflict, and shallowness of supposed soliday expressed in the West:
usual principles are discarded in favour of Gazans being treated like objects in the ideological warfare of others
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5 Oct 2024
This CS Lewis quote applies here:
3 Oct 2024
I will stand four square with Kim, as will millions of people who are on the side of compassion and humanity.
The law must change in the name of love.
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4 Oct 2024
Lucy Letby: The Killer Questions
File on 4 examines some of the most contentious statistical, scientific and medical evidence in the Lucy Letby trial.
🎧 Listen on @BBCSounds.
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0023v…
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4 Oct 2024
This is weak leadership
PM is the elected leader of the country, and should have an internal moral core that on an issue like this, should be articulated and brought under democratic process for scrutiny
Citing a promise to a celebrity campaigner isn't it
4 Oct 2024
"I made a promise to Esther Rantzen before the election that we would provide time for a debate and a vote on assisted dying," Keir Starmer says
"I'm very pleased" that I'm able to "make good" on that promise, the prime minister adds
bbc.in/3ZRTjWd
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1 Oct 2024
Medical experts and scientists have told #Fileon4 they have new concerns about how some of the evidence used in the trial of baby-killer Lucy Letby was presented in court and raise questions over the safety of her convictions.
File on 4 | @BBCSounds
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0023v…
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16 Sep 2024
"Medicine is now in danger of causing more sickness than it heals." My latest... brownstone.org/articles/the-… via @brownstoneinst
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12 Sep 2024
Consultant neonatologist who advised Lucy Letby defence team criticises inquiry judge Thirlwall’s dismissal of questions about the convictions;
Dr Mike Hall attended Letby’s trial throughout, and he argues prosecution evidence was “flawed or misleading”. theguardian.com/uk-news/2024…
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Robert Freudenthal retweeted
11 Sep 2024
In today’s @PrivateEyeNews I do my fourth long piece on Letby before I move back to other NHS issues. The third alleged insulin poisoning certainly needs looking into. A baby with the same pattern of bloods that the prosecution alleged “could only happen with poisoning” was transferred to Alder Hey hospital and diagnosed with hyperinsulinism. How could that have happened? Equally puzzling is the fact that Dr Evans has now reviewed 82 cases for the police, and yet none of the new charges of deliberate harm that were confidently predicted a year ago have happened. Have the police reconsidered? Or are they biding their time? If they really think there are unsolved murders out there, as Dr Evans clearly does, they are duty-bound to bring charges.
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3 Sep 2024
My goodness
Understandable if many in nursing profession following the Letby case feel "there but for the grace of God go I"
3 Sep 2024
‘I am evil I did this’: Lucy Letby’s so-called confessions were written on advice of counsellors dlvr.it/TCmQxj
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3 Sep 2024
I'm not going to sit here and pretend to be an expert in complex criminal cases. But I think that if it had been me sitting on the jury, I'd consider this the very definition of reasonable doubt. theguardian.com/uk-news/arti…
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