Public skepticism isn’t something doctors need to “cure,” write medical ethicists Isabelle Freiling, Nicole M. Krause and Dietram A. Scheufele in the American Medical Association Journal of Ethics. They argue the medical profession’s tendency to label all opposing views “misinformation” is “riddled with ethical pitfalls,” paternalism and political bias. Instead of being bullied or nudged, patients should be allowed to make their own informed decisions.
Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.
