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Heretics are the antidote to groupthink. We"ll talk about anything in medicine or beyond. Straightforward discussions without political spin. pairodocs.substack.com

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20:48

Making death the easy choice

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2026/02/27

The Pairodocs have been on a bit about euthanasia recently, but please indulge us. It’s a deep subject - literally life-and-death.Since my first piece on euthanasia (“MAiD”), and then again since Julie’s more recent piece about extending it to the mentally ill, several interesting issues have bubbled up through comments and discussion. I thought these were worth fleshing out.Did someone order MAiD service?What’s in a name? A lot. MAiD used to be a name for someone who cleans your house. And in the

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22:59

Deadly Compassion

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2026/02/26

This is the podcast version of Julie’s recent Substack on the issue of euthanasia, or “MAiD”, and its pending extension to patients with mental diseases. Get full access to Pairodocs’ Collection of Heresy at pairodocs.substack.com/subscribe

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20:59

Assisted Suicide, Suffering, and Slippery Slopes

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2026/02/24

A number of readers have asked for a podcast version of our Substacks, and I felt it was worth re-issuing this 2022 article as a podcast. It meshes, with some significant overlap, with Julie’s recent Substack on the same topic, and an upcoming (and likely our last, at least for a while) follow up by me to address some bones of contention.So if you like listening rather than reading, here you go. Remember that the written version contains useful links and a few spicy memes. Thanks for listening

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16:31

Political tipping points

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2025/10/25

I’m a slow thinker. It’s why I don’t do Twitter. It takes me a long time to come up with an opinion. I have to keep turning over an issue and looking at it from different angles. I read both sides of an argument. I often find some book on philosophy, poli sci or history that is relevant. And finally after all of that I (might) have an opinion on the subject.So it took me a while to write about the Canadian election, which happened 6 months ago. It was obviously time for a changeThere is a

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34:36

Are we being killed with kindness?

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2025/09/10

I was honoured that Dr. JD Haltigan agreed to speak with us for the Free Speech in Medicine Podcast. Julie (the X/Twitter-literate half of the Pairodocs) loves his tweets so much that she feels that they “are sharing the same brain”. He is fearless in following the evidence on psychopathology in modern society, and speaking about what it says, even when it leads to politically incorrect places.As you’ll hear, Dr. Haltigan is a developmental psychologist with an interest in psychopathology and how

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34:06

Do Flu Shots "Save Lives"?

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2025/01/31

When I started family practice in ‘99 I held flu shot clinics for several years for patients in the rural community of Lansdowne, Ontario, where I worked. I was taught that “Flu Shots Save Lives”. The government advertised them to my patients. Demand was high. The pay was good.Over the years I became more skeptical about vaccines, including flu shots. What does the science say? We learned during COVID that public health messaging is often very disconnected from facts and reality.When I wanted

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42:03

What's the D-eal on D

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2024/04/07

I was very honoured to speak with Dr. Kanji Nakatsu, a PhD in pharmacology and emeritus professor from Queen’s University, about the interesting and somewhat controversial subject of Vitamin D.Is D a wonder drug? Or a fad? Should we be supplementing? If so, how much?This discussion is a little technical, and perhaps not for everyone, but I hope many of you find it of interest.This should be a scientific, not political, topic. But like everything that brushed up against COVID, it got gooey

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19:29

Is there Harm in Harm Reduction - Part 4

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2024/02/10

Urban wastelandsOne of my friends described our hometown of Sydney’s downtown as looking more and more like a zombie apocalypse. Those who are addicted to the point of homelessness tend to migrate to larger centres. A rural community won’t put up with Joe Smith, Mike and Maggie’s son, pitching a tent in the field where the kids play baseball, leaving dirty needles around, and passing out on the grass. Cities are big and anonymous and such behaviour is tolerated. More than tolerated, some would say

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15:12

Is there Harm in Harm Reduction - Part 3

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2024/02/08

The watering down of languageWhen I was a medical resident in Kingston Ontario in the late 90’s, we would sometimes receive patients from the Rideau Regional Centre. This was a residential facility or “Institution” between Kingston and Ottawa that at its peak in the mid-50’s housed over 2500 mentally handicapped people. Back then in the 90’s, the government was in the last stages of phasing out these larger centres in favour of “small options homes” and “community care” for the handicapped. Whether

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19:50

Is there Harm in Harm Reduction? Part 2

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2024/02/03

Once again you have the option to listen or read. Either way, thanks for being here and I look forward to your comments and ideas.The Solution to drug addiction is unlikely more drugsBig Pharma was a Big Part of creating this crisis in the first place. At minimum it poured gasoline on a fire lit by the loss of religion, social and community connections. Yet of course Big Pharma has come up with "the solution", which is (surprise!) more drugs. Call me Mr. Suspicious-Pants, but I just don’t trust

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7:55

Is there Harm in Harm Reduction

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2024/02/02

(I’m posting this as a podcast as some of you have mentioned you like having an audio version. But if you prefer the traditional written format, simply continue reading…)Problems in CottonlandI moved back home to Cape Breton in 2003. CB has long been a “depressed area”, Canada’s equivalent of Appalachia, which JD Vance wrote about so well in Hillbilly Elegy. We were a coal-mining area for many generations, and thus in decline ever since King Coal was gradually usurped by Big Oil.Over several

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32:21

Canadian Federal Court Rules Invocation of The...

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2024/01/24

By now most people who are tuned in to these issues have heard lots about the recent Federal Court ruling that concluded that Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act (formerly the War Measures Act), which granted the government essentially unlimited powers to forcibly end the trucker rally in Ottawa, was unjustified.This decision amounts to a hard beat-down of Trudeau and his minions who made this decision. And it is directly contradictory to the findings of an inquiry (perhaps not surprisingly

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48:26

Dr. Ken Zucker

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2023/10/22

I first heard of Dr. Ken Zucker back in 2015 when the story about his firing as the head of the CAMH (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health’s) gender dysphoria clinic first broke. The story struck me as strange. At that time he had 40 years of experience in the clinic. And as far as I could tell he was being accused of being “anti-trans”, one of the new heresies of the woke age. The clinic had existed for decades, and he had worked there forever, and been the head a good chunk of that time.

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31:11

Dr. Eric Payne

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2023/10/20

Dr. Eric Payne is a paediatric neurologist. He has a degree in Public Health from Harvard, and worked at the Mayo Clinic for a number of years before returning to Canada to take a job in Alberta in 2020.A healthy society sacrifices for and protects its children. I know of no grandparent who would not willingly lay down his or her life for a grandchild. But COVID policy took such choices out of the hands of individuals and collectivized them, outsourcing decisions to The Experts™. They decided

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46:28

James Manson

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2023/10/18

(note that in this podcast I read this intro in the audio version, so if you plan to listen, you can save the time and eyestrain)The idea of “god-given freedoms” is at the basis of classical liberalism. These are often referred to as “negative rights”. I touched on this issue briefly in a previous substack. Negative rights can be thought of as freedom FROM something. The right to be left alone - freedom from violence; the right to say what you want - freedom from censorship; the right to not have

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30:16

Lisa Bildy

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2023/10/14

Lisa Bildy is an important person in my life. Were it not for her and the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (please consider donating!), I’m not all that sure I’d still be practicing medicine.The first time I ran into the guardrails of the increasingly narrow road of allowable free speech was in 2019. You can read some details here. We physicians pay for insurance to an organization called the CMPA (Canadian Medical Protective Association). For the substantial amount that we pay, we are

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Dr. Aaron Kheriaty

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2023/10/13

Did you know that Anthony Fauci’s wife is the chief bio-ethicist at the National Institute of Health in the USA? Does this strike you as a little odd? Knowing that, is it somehow less surprising that vaccine mandates are “ethical” according to Fauci and his minions?Many of you who follow our Substack will already know what the Nuremberg Code is, it’s approximate history, and why it is foundational to medical ethics post-WW2. Twenty-six years ago, even the very “woke” New England Journal of

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21:58

Dr. Gad Saad

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2023/10/12

FSIM is VERY honoured and blessed to have the well-known Dr. Gad Saad as our lead-off speaker for FSIM 2023 in Baddeck, Nova Scotia from the evening of October 27th to afternoon of Oct 29th.Dr. Saad is fearless. He is not bully-able. He says what he thinks, without any virtue-signalling filter. He believes what he says, and says what he believes. As a bonus, he is hilarious and fun.Over the last few years, Dr. Saad has become one of the most prominent, outspoken, and important voices fighting

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22:53

Amy Hamm

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2023/10/02

Amy Hamm is a nurse, but has training in journalism, and is an excellent writer. She has written for Quillette, the Post-Millennial, and elsewhere.However, apparently clarity of thought and communication combined with a deep knowledge of subject matter is not an appreciated skill set in the 2020’s. Amy found this out when she dared to challenge the required thinking around the very difficult and contentious transgender issue.Amy uses the word “TERF” in our discussion. For those of you who don’t

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28:44

Dr. Aris Lavranos - Doctor&Lawyer

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2023/09/27

I remember a few years back when I first started hearing about “The Deep State”. It sounded very dark and conspiratorial. Of course, it was just the “fringe minority” who called it that, so any right-thinking person was supposed to dismiss it. But is it just a more negative name for “the administrative state” or “bureaucracy” or “the civil service”? Since Trudeau Jr. came to power in 2015, we have 40% more federal employees. A whole new department to collect and administer carbon taxes. A

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