Dr. Aaron Kheriaty made headlines for challenging the COVID-19 vaccine policies of the University of California–Irvine School of Medicine, where he was a professor of psychiatry and the director of the Medical Ethics Program at UCI Health. He was recently fired from that job for challenging the ethics of the mandates—a position that had been…
Dr. Aaron Kheriaty: Science Is Being Weaponized to Create a Medical Dystopia
Organizations That Impose COVID Mandates Must Also Be Responsible for Harms They May Cause: Ethicist
Organizations that impose COVID-19 mandates must also be responsible for the harms those mandates could potentially cause and cannot be absolved by claiming they were following orders from Health Canada, says ethicist Dr. Julie Ponesse. Ponesse was fired from Ontario’s Huron University College in September after refusing to comply with the its mandatory COVID-19 vaccine…
Organizations That Impose COVID Mandates Must Also Be Responsible for the Harms They May Cause, Says Ethicist
Organizations that impose COVID-19 mandates must also be responsible for the harms those mandates could potentially cause and cannot be absolved by claiming they were following orders from Health Canada, says ethicist Dr. Julie Ponesse. Ponesse was fired from Ontario’s Huron University College in September after refusing to comply with the its mandatory COVID-19 vaccine…
Vaccine Mandates: A Question of Ethics
Commentary Various vaccine mandates imposed across Canada are proving to be contentious, conflicting, and legally dubious. Medical mandates are ethically spurious in a constitutional democracy, and ethics is fundamental to these new and divisive policies. Those who have been following the issue may have come across Julie Ponesse, an ethics professor at Ontario’s Huron University…
Most Who Object to Mandatory Vaccination Are Not ‘Anti-Vaxxers’
Commentary As someone who has been taught to measure my words, I have had enough of the prime minister’s attempt to brand people who object to the COVID vaccines as “anti-vaxxers.” He made the most of it, of course, during the recent election campaign, when he told us that he was not going to let…
Mandatory Vaccination: The Greater Evil of Society
Commentary COVID-19 presents a high risk of severe illness and death to a few and a negligible risk to the majority of the population. The median age of death with COVID-19 is similar to that of natural mortality in most countries. Ninety-five percent of hospitalizations occur in individuals with one or more existing health problems. And…
Thoughts on Work and the Work Ethic
Commentary Most of us who grow up in middle-class America are inculcated with what Karl Marx called “bourgeois” values. One of the fundamental values was that when we reached adulthood, we would go to work. I don’t recall this being explicitly taught. It seemed to be the natural order of things that we unconsciously absorbed…
Victoria’s Conversion Therapy Bill ‘Inconsistent’ With Human Rights Charter: Australian Law Firm
Victoria’s Conversion Therapy Bill explicitly targets Christian sexual ethics and places “unjustifiable limits” on fundamental rights and freedoms, an Australian law firm has said. In a report (pdf) published by the Coalition Against Unsafe Sexual Education (CAUSE), the Human Rights Law Alliance, a conservative non-for-profit law firm, analysed 8 sections of Victoria’s Human Rights Charter…
Conservative Ethnogenesis
Commentary Ethnogenesis is the process by which numerous individuals who share an ethnic trait come to understand themselves as a distinct group, people whose common attributes mark them as having a separate standing and experience. The term is now commonly applied to any social group with a marked commonality, not just an ethnic one. It’s a…
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