by John McMillan | Jul 11, 2025 | COVID-19, Disease, Ethics
Dr. Philp McMillan, John McMillan In April 2024, a team of biodefense experts gathered in Washington, D.C. to imagine the unthinkable. Their resulting document, the National Blueprint for Biodefense, contains a detailed tabletop exercise that reads like a nightmare....
by John McMillan | Jul 4, 2025 | Ethics, Medical Research
Laurenz Casser, University of Sheffield At some point between conception and early childhood, pain makes its debut. But when exactly that happens remains one of medicine’s most challenging questions. Some have claimed that foetuses as young as twelve weeks can already...
by John McMillan | Jun 27, 2025 | COVID-19, Ethics
Dr. Philp McMillan, John McMillan In the late 1950s, doctors prescribed a new drug to pregnant women suffering from morning sickness. Thalidomide was marketed as completely safe, a breakthrough in prenatal care. Women trusted their physicians and the pharmaceutical...
by John McMillan | Jun 20, 2025 | COVID-19, Ethics
Dr. Philp McMillan, John McMillan On January 9th, 2025, something unprecedented happened in American public health: all 17 members of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) were fired. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the newly appointed Secretary of Health...
by John McMillan | Jun 13, 2025 | COVID-19, Ethics
Dr. Philp McMillan, John McMillan Virologist Geert Vanden Bossche recently launched a fierce rebuttal against FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary; something far more significant than a scientific disagreement. This was the spectacular collapse of any remaining...
by John McMillan | May 23, 2025 | COVID-19, Ethics
Dr. Philp McMillan, John McMillan “In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” – Galileo Galilei, 1623 Four centuries past, Galileo Galilei turned his telescope to the heavens and...
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