The tragic death of the physician and media star Michael Mosely appears to make no sense in someone who devoted all his work to prolonging life. Mosely suffered from Diabetes and followed a tradition of doctors experimenting on themselves in order to prove a medical discovery but appears to have forgotten that pushing himself might have fatal consequences.

The National Disability Insurance Scheme is on track to be the most costly, rorted, over-budget scheme in Australian history. Costing more than defence and Medicare, this scheme has no cap and no means testing. Millionaires get their driveways repaved, carers and relatives go on luxury cruises and now serial killers and rapists incarcerated for years are released onto NDIS packages worth millions.

The eminent psychiatrist, Theodore Dalrymple, reveals the problem at the heart of modern psychology. It turns its patients into objects entirely at the mercy of forces they cannot control, making them do bad things.

Mobile phones and handheld devices have rapidly but insidiously found their way into our lives, into our houses, and our bedrooms. The disturbing thing is that they have completely captured our children who are unable to do without them and at the same time are harmed by them. They have become the new windows into a corrupt and terrifying world where our over-stimulated, overactive children forsake reading and no longer think for themselves.

The proposed fleet of nuclear submarines that will be purchased by Australia will bankrupt the nation. We do not have and will never have enough sailors to man the crews of these highly sophisticated vessels. We have a history of joining our bellicose allies in all sorts of conflicts. Even if these submarines could be built we will never be in a position to power or maintain them.

Wisdom and knowledge are now in short supply because low literacy in middle school, over-reliance on the internet, and lack of reading among college graduates have created a generation who know nothing about the world. Medical scholars are expected to be learned people but medical students when asked simple general knowledge questions outside their field are unable to answer them.

Ordinary people, as well as psychologists and teachers, are confused about mental symptoms and tend to consider marked variations in behaviour and disturbance of conduct indications for the presence of mental illness, especially in children. This is driven by the internet and the DSM-5, an American catalogue of diagnoses. The most common overused diagnosis is Attention Deficit Disorder or ADHD, but there is no scientific criteria for the diagnosis of this condition or scientific basis to support the use of dangerous stimulants to treat children diagnosed with it.

The Royal Commission into Veterans Suicide grinds on, so far without much to show except for a set of incomprehensible, preliminary recommendations. Royal Commissions into mental health and health matters in this country have a bad record, often making things worse. For this Commission, the usual players from the “mental health industry” will step forward, seeking even more funding for their expensive programs, despite the abysmal record of psychiatrists and psychologists in reducing the rate of suicide in veterans. A much better approach is discussed within.

Ten years of promises by the Government and police to end youth crime have ended in the sad spectacle of police cars being chased into their police stations to escape youth offenders in stolen vehicles. Youth offending begins in schools. In dealing with behaviour in schools, children are more likely to be given drugs than discipline.

In every place where people live together, a constant conflict is acted out which is best described as the Pet Wars. Humans make the mistake of believing that animals think like they do but animals are unpredictable especially wild ones. The beloved pet of one owner will attack and even kill the pet or child of another or even, tragically, the child of the owner of the dog. This post explores this conflict in detail.

Giving patients with severe mental problems like Posttraumatic Stress Disorder hallucinogenic drugs like Psilocybin has long been discredited but now doctors have been permitted to resume the practice.

Cyclone Tracy destroyed Darwin and killed 71 people, Vandalism and violence will destroy the city again.

Lawyers represent young offenders and plead to the court that they be released so that they can have rehabilitation. They agree to comply with strict conditions when they are bailed. However, this is all a lie. There is no rehabilitation and bail conditions are ignored.

Self-appointed experts have promoted China in recent years as a shining example of success for the developing world. However, the Chinese Government’s handling of the Covid virus has exposed the truth.

Just as many of us do today, Narcissus fell in love with himself. Modern psychologists falsely claim that Narcissism is a diagnosis suffered by a small group of us but science shows otherwise.

Babies are dying and women are suffering permanent injuries - what’s going on at the Mackay Hospital?

The most shocking ambush of police in recent times provides us with an example of Shared Psychotic Disorder.

People complain that they can no longer find a good family doctor. Doctors have disappeared from the outback. Despite cities having large numbers of general practitioners, standards have fallen. GPs no longer perform simple procedures and their knowledge base is declining. The Government and medical authorities have much to answer for but no one is holding them to account.

Teaches are being handed a bag of rotten apples by educational authorities who are failing to address the real reason for their mass exodus.

The Government will restrict the sale of Panadol (Paracetamol), the most widely used painkiller, after recommendations by the TGA (Therapeutic Goods Administration).