Category: Public Health

Alberta Appoints New Chief Medical Officer of Health, Replacing Dr. Deena Hinshaw

The Alberta government has announced that Dr. Mark Joffe, currently vice-president and medical director for Cancer Care Alberta and already in a contract with Alberta Health Services, will replace Dr. Deena Hinshaw as the province’s chief medical officer of health, effective immediately. The move means Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has followed through on a promise she…


Alberta Replaces Dr. Deena Hinshaw as Chief Medical Officer of Health

The Alberta government has announced that Dr. Mark Joffe, currently vice-president and medical director for Cancer Care Alberta and already in a contract with Alberta Health Services, will replace Dr. Deena Hinshaw as the province’s chief medical officer of health, effective immediately. The move means Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has followed through on a promise she…


Global Health and the Art of Really Big Lies

Commentary In a former role I had a boss who lied a lot. The lies were pure fantasy, but massive in scope and delivered with sincerity. They were very successful. This success was based on the reluctance of most people to consider that someone in a position of authority in a humanitarian organization would completely…


Should US Officials and Pharma Execs Be Charged With Crimes Against Humanity?

The U.S. elites who pushed COVID-19 regulations want forgiveness for the punishment they inflicted on middle-class Americans. Schools closed. Children hurt. Businesses destroyed. Families and communities split. And worse—patients were denied early treatment to force experimental vaccines on the entire country. And now Americans want to bring those responsible to justice. In this eye-opening new…


Kheriaty Versus University of California

The following excerpt from my book, ”The New Abnormal,” was published by the Daily Wire last week and reprinted here with permission. Enjoy… Shortly after I published the Wall Street Journal piece arguing that university vaccine mandates were unethical, the University of California, my employer, promulgated its vaccine mandate. I decided then it was time to put a stake in…


Judge Rules Alberta Politicians Were ‘Unreasonable’ in Lifting Mask Mandate

EDMONTON—An Alberta judge has ruled that the provincial government’s February public health order removing mandatory masking for students in schools was “unreasonable,” because the decision was not made by the chief medical officer of health (CMOH). In an Oct. 26 decision, Court of King’s Bench Justice Grant Dunlop stated that the Public Health Act required…


The Rise of the Biomedical Security State

This essay is adapted from the forthcoming book, “The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State” (Regnery Publishing, Nov. 1). “History doesn’t repeat itself,” said Mark Twain, “but it often rhymes.” This is among the reasons we look to the past, straining as best we can through the deepening fog of time to discern lessons…


Religious Liberty Once Again Under Attack by the Cultural Elites

Commentary PITTSBURGH—L. Hafer of the Pittsburgh Daily Post paid a visit way back on June 9, 1847, to Mercy Hospital, the Catholic hospital begun by the Sisters of Mercy, a religious congregation founded in Ireland. The hospital had just opened its doors four months earlier in a former concert hall smack in the middle of…


Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word

Commentary It’s been more than obvious since April 2020 that lockdowns were far too costly for individuals and society and could never earn a rational public-health defense. And the evidence was rolling in from one year later that the vaccine mandates were similarly indefensible. Both tactics had in common the enormous use of state coercion…


Hippocratic Versus Technocratic Medicine

The following excerpt from my book, “The New Abnormal,” was published on The Stream last week, reprinted here with permission (yes, I gave permission to Regnery, the book publisher, which gave permission to The Stream, which gave permission back to me to print this excerpt—intellectual property!). Enjoy… Hippocratic Versus Technocratic Medicine Many of our technocrats seem undeterred by…