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Utilitarianism and the perversion of the ethics of Hippocrates

In their guidelines for resolving conflict in cases of non-beneficial or futile medical treatment, the San Francisco Bay Area Network of Ethics Committee continues the disturbing trend of medicine moving toward collectivism and the ethics of distributive justice.(1,2) According to the tradition and ethics of Hippocrates that have served the profession well for 2500 years, […]

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Trigger Locks Hazardous Themselves

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The March 23 Associated Press story, “Boy held classmates at gunpoint,” exemplifies the false sense of security conveyed by trigger locks and other “smart gun” technology. Recall that the 12-year-old Ohio boy’s father told police that, “the weapon (a loaded 9mm semi-automatic) had been stored on a dresser top with a fully engaged trigger lock.”

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Vaccines (Part I): Jenner, Pasteur, and the Dawn of Scientific Medicine

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Introduction With the issue of mandatory vaccination programs for infants and children, lines have been drawn in the sand. On one side, we find concerned parents, increasingly being supported by dissenting physicians and scientists troubled by the serious side effects of vaccines, which have, in fact, been reported with greater frequency, including serious neurological deficits

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Vaccines (Part II): Hygiene, Sanitation, Immunization, and Pestilential Diseases

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Vaccines — Kill or Cure? As the controversial debate over mandatory vaccine policy heats up igniting passions, it is perhaps appropriate we summarize what is known about the manifest benefits of modern vaccines, not forgetting the tremendously salutary impact on health and longevity wrought about by better living conditions, hygiene and sanitation, in general, and

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‘Death and Taxes’ at the Turn of the Millennium by Miguel A. Faria, MD

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[What are taxes?] The greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every cornerand crevice of industry[which] watches prosperity as its prey and permitsnone to escape without tribute.Thomas PaineThe Rights of Man (1791) George Orwell once stated there is no such thing as staying out of politics. And taxes are an enduring political issue. The issue

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Registering Our Guns Is Threat to Freedom

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Dennis Farney’s “Why Two Doctors Still Value Their Guns, Knowing the Toll” (page one, Dec. 13) was a poignant piece of reporting. The shooting tragedy notwithstanding, Drs. Kelly and Borkon, represent the naivete of many Americans who still believe the Second Amendment is about hunting. It’s not. It’s about the right to protect yourself and

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Utilitarianism and the perversion of the ethics of Hippocrates

Trigger Locks Hazardous Themselves

Vaccines (Part I): Jenner, Pasteur, and the Dawn of Scientific Medicine

Vaccines (Part II): Hygiene, Sanitation, Immunization, and Pestilential Diseases

‘Death and Taxes’ at the Turn of the Millennium by Miguel A. Faria, MD

Registering Our Guns Is Threat to Freedom

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