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Our Fool of a Prime Minister 27 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
According to the British Medical Journal, David Cameron recently asked a healthcare advisor how the NHS could “move to ‘zero harm’ in the wake of [the Mid Staffordshire scandal]“. Dalrymple is not amu...
Does Too Much Sugar Increase the Risk of Dementia? 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
Arguing that “[n]ot all that appears in the world’s most distinguished medical journals is distinguished. Laborious hackwork exists in all fields of human endeavour…”, Dalrymple critiques a paper in t...
Souk or Supermarket? 26 Aug 2013 | 03:33 am
Dalrymple explains one of his preferences here: Two photographs in the newspapers moved me more than any others. They were not those of corpses strewn across the rubble, and other such sights to whic...
Does the Sleep Aid Zolpidem Impair Driving the Next Day? 25 Aug 2013 | 07:27 pm
At Pajamas Media Dalrymple examines a study on a sleeping pill he takes himself.
The Medical in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar 21 Aug 2013 | 01:45 pm
We do not know what Shakespeare really believed, save that he liked money and feared the mob: for he was a stern creditor, and whenever a mob appeared in his plays it was sure to be foolish, fickle an...
On the Pleasures of Humanitarian Anger 19 Aug 2013 | 12:58 pm
Dalrymple has a new piece for the Library of Law and Liberty that provides a deeper analysis of a human type he has written about before and which we all know well: the unjustifiably and self-righteou...
Architectural Bedsores 18 Aug 2013 | 01:54 pm
Visiting Norway, Dalrymple notices that the new architecture there is no better than that of his native Britain, though Norway is a richer country: It must be admitted, however, that architecture is ...
Can Living With Chickens Protect Against Face-Eating Bacteria? 17 Aug 2013 | 01:40 pm
A strange question, to be sure, but one that may prove important to children in Africa suffering from noma, or cancrum oris. I quote, however, from the opening lines of Dalrymple’s piece at Pajamas Me...
Should an Alcoholic Be Allowed to Get a Second Liver Transplant? 16 Aug 2013 | 01:24 pm
At Pajamas Media, Dalrymple writes of a past dilemma brought on by his status as a doctor and writer: A newspaper in England asked me to write an article, for what for me was a considerable sum of mo...
Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched 15 Aug 2013 | 01:15 pm
Dalrymple on historian A. L. Rowse: For many years before [his death]… he was eaten by a resentment that he no longer had a motive to conceal. He believed he had solved the problem of the identity of...
