considerations regarding the behaviour of pharmaceutical companies

 

My concerns about what I deem malfeasance in the corporate conduct of major pharmaceutical companies, are as follows.

1. The mass marketing of drugs styled anti depressants and anti psychotics has been couched in a monumental lie, to wit that the substances in question rectify brain chemistry. My assessment is that these drugs block or accelerate brain function. They rectify nothing. Initial legislation governing the prescription of anti depressants carried the stipulation that they should only be used for several weeks by any patient. This has been quietly ignored and people are on the things for life.

2. I am convinced by current US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy's assertion that the Mumps Measles Rubella vaccines have caused a wave of autism among human populaces across the planet earth.

3. During the 1960s, the distribution of Thalidomide as a cure for morning sickness in pregnant women resulted in severe injuries to unborn children. The pharmaceutical companies have never been made properly accountable for this. I think the appropriate penalty would be closure, not in the Oprah Winfrey tree hugging sense of  moving on emotionally, but in the precise ethical legalistic sense of shutting down permanently those pharmaceutical companies responsible for harming people with Thalidomide.

4. The distribution of abortion pills is an atrocity.

5. The promotion of contraceptive culture has harmed civil society and debased family values. Many contraceptive products for women cause deep vein thrombosis.

6. The vaccines for Covid 19 were made out of aborted babies. This alone should have been enough reason not to use them. The Covid 19 vaccines have been killing and crippling people since government and media colluded to stampede the general public into taking them. Reportage of deaths due to Covid 19 vaccines is being suppressed.

7. Pharmaceutical companies have clientalised Academia through endowments to universities and medical schools.

8. Pharmaceutical companies have clientalised media through advertising.

9. Pharmaceutical companies have clientalised governments using methods that are not entirely clear.

10. The marketing of a drug styled Ozempic to make people thin is a monstrous manipulation of vulnerable people and will do enormous harm.

11. The policy of selling unnecessary medications to vast swathes of the populace in a target group styled by the pharmaceutical companies as "the worried well," is vile.

the flu has flown

 

Coffee with the professional woman in an eatery.

"I'm noticing a lot of people are getting flu, or pleurisy, or coughs, or different things," she said.

"I've noticed it too," I told her. "In fact I'm noticing far more of it than during the supposed Covid 19 pandemic a few years ago."

"What does it mean?" quoth she.

"It means something," I answered cautiously. "It might be the cumulative effect of Covid and flu vaccines distilling new forms of the flu into the general population. Or it may be a detrimental effect of those same vaccines on herd immunity. Or it may be Russian President Putin or Chinese President Xi or both, releasing flu viruses into the Western biosphere."

There came the sound of screeching brakes on the street.

An adjoining diner leapt up with their mobile phone ready to film.

"I'm convinced," I told the professional woman calmly, "that if an atomic bomb fell on Kilcullen right this moment, there would be gulpens at their windows trying to get a good camera angle on the mushroom cloud."

top ten allies of the islamic republic of iran in the present conflict

 

1. The BBC.

2. CNN.

3. Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

4. Xi Jinping, President of China.

5. Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the self styled United Nations organisation.

6. The commentator formerly known as Mark Steyn.

7. Whatever's left of Hezbollah.

8. Whatever's left of Hamas.

9. Whatever's left of the Houthis.

10. Er, that's it.

of cousins and cozenage

 

Sitting around the table at Aunty Teresa's.

Cousin Frances, the scientisty one, leans across the table and indicates to me a photo on her mobile phone.

The photo is of a car in an underground car park in Dublin.

The car is submerged in water.

"I'd hate to own that car," said Frances meaningfully.

I knew there must be a point to her showing me this.

It's not like Frances to excoriate gulpens for parking their cars in underground car parks during a rain storm.

Maybe the car belonged to a polar bear who was swimming for an ice floe which had already melted due to climate change and now he doesn't even have a car.

Oh the humanity.

(Oh the bearity, surely - ed note)

As I contemplated the image Frances had show me, my feminist cousin Pauline called for my attention at the other end of the table.

"James do you remember the episode of Father Ted where..."

This was too much.

First Frances wanting to give the vote to polar bears or whatever it was and now this.

"Pauline," I interjected firmly, "you and I have enjoyed twenty years of peace because I never ever discuss Israel and Palestine with you, and you never ever mention Father Ted to me."

At this point Cousin John entered the room and began rummaging in the kitchen.

"Where are the biscuits?" he called.

All eyes swung towards me.

Being a known cookie monster has certain disadvantages.

"I think we're all out," I said brushing a few stray crumbs from the irreproachable mechlin lace of my Dunnes Stores shirt.

meditations on my 60th birthday

 

Top Ten Regrets Of A Lifetime

1. In 1985, I sat through Mad Max Three with some people that I'd forced to go to it. They were surprised to be liking it. I just sat there thinking George Miller had blown his modern myth and turned it into nothing.

2. Er, that's it.

an open letter to biochemist james tour

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: James
Date: Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 12:11 AM
Subject: advocacy rats and c
To: <tour@drjamestour.org>

Dear Doctor James Tour.

For some years, I have admired your systemic debunking of scientists claiming to have created, or come close to creating, life in the laboratory.

Your claims to be a believing Christian have also interested me.

Some representations.

1. I have heard that you are severing the spines of rats as you seek to create a cure for paralysis. I put it to you that the action of severing a rat's spine amounts to a gross disrespect for life itself. As any card carrying Nazi or communist or psychopath or Fauci will tell you, it always starts with animals and finishes with people. I am appealing to you to stop violating animals as you search for cures. Find another way.

2. You have effectively pulled the rug from under the scientists claiming to have atheistically explained the origin of life. But are you yourself advocating the development and continuance of a dysfunctional science that will lead to forms of human life being generated in the laboratory for spare parts, slave labour, etc?

3. You have made claims to have had a direct experience as a young man of the presence of Jesus in your college apartment. The claim itself implies to me that you are a fantasist, or a person who was unknowingly drugged by contemporaries, or a liar, or telling the truth. Which of these postulations is correct?

Thank you for your time.

James Healy

******************

Reply sent via iPhone

13th April 2023

Re: Advocacy, rats and c.

You heard wrong. I never severed the spine of a rat.

James M Tour

713-348-6246

tour@ric.edu

www.jmtour.com

********************

Date: 20th January 2026.

James Healy to Dr Tour.

Hey Doc.

My source was your interview with Eric Metaxis regarding Origin Of Life science on his Youtube channel styled Socrates In The City.

Twenty five minutes into the interview you recount the spine of a rat being deliberately severed with a scalpel as part of your research programme seeking a cure for paralysis in humans. Mr Metaxis says: "So you deliberately severed the spine of a rat?" You then say: "Yes." The interview can still be viewed as of today's date.

James H

kilcullen bolero

 

december light

grey mist

pavements glistening with a touch of frost

shop windows glowing

passers by scurrying in scarves and coats

christmas close

but not yet

poetry in the early onset of evening

little birds with their feathers fluffed for warmth

craggy doubters believing for once

coffee brewed to a froth

allison humming something about love

heaven and earth are closer than they appear

all the promises of god are true

momentaria

Driving across the Curragh of Kildare through a soft November dusk.

The world is atmospherically sepia grey like an old photograph.

Topping the rise I come upon an unusual sight.

Crows are swirling above the plain on the spokes of a great invisible wheel in the sky.

Yet more crows are perched densely on telephone wires below them.

Still more and far more numerously than in the air or on the wires, several acres of the Curragh plain are carpeted on the ground with myriads of the creatures.

I slow my car and look as closely as I can.

For the most part they are not foraging although I espy a few poking in the earth for worms.

Most of the ones on the ground seem to be in little groups of three, four and five, with those in each group facing in towards each other as though in conference.

They are quite motionless.

Their demeanour reminds me of politicians in coat and tails gathering before a vote and discreetly discussing last minute concerns.

Their folded wings are reminiscent of hands clasped behind a gentleman's back.

So this is a parliament of crows.

Such a gathering has latterly been referred to in the English language as a murder of crows.

Parliament is a much better word.

I wonder what they were talking about.