From the impasses of state deontology to medical ethics
During the pandemic, science sometimes seemed to acquire the status of unimpeachable truth.
With models without empirical foundations and medicine without clinics, health policy could turn into a morality without principles.
The psychiatrist Paul Rauchs proposed to pervert Kantian deontological ethics into an obligation of blind obedience to the...
Science and conspiracies
Expressis-Verbis would like to thank Mr. Michel Decker for making available his article published in the magazine Kulturissimo/Tageblatt in November 2021. Question marks A German writer shares her memories of her childhood in primary school. She had problems with a clergyman who lived in a world of answers, while...
Lettre ouverte de la part de 3 avocats à l’attention de M. le ministre de l’État Xavier Bettel et Mme la Ministre de la Santé Paulette Lenert.
MINISTERE D’ETAT Attn de M. le Ministre d’Etat Xavier BETTEL 2, Place Clairefontaine L-1341 LUXEMBOURG MINISTERE DE LA SANTE Attn de Mme la Ministre Paulette LENERT Allée Marconi — Villa Louvigny L-2120 LUXEMBOURG Luxembourg, le 18 février 2022 Concerne : Commission d’experts sur l’instauration d’une obligation de vaccination contre...
OPEN LETTER ON THE AMENDING PROVISIONS OF BILL NO. 7897 OF THE COVID ACT
“The real goal revealed during the press conference: to attain a certain vaccination rate (established in a completely arbitrary way) to be able to end the anti-freedom measures. After all, the excessive discriminatory anti-freedom measures correspond to a purely political objective and not to a legitimate objective related to...
I cannot do it anymore
In an open letter, ARD employee Ole Skambraks speaks out against one and a half years of Corona coverage: Skambraks has worked as an editorial assistant and editor at the public broadcaster for 12 years. ...
Excessive power without end: politics suffering from Long Covid
Politics needs the measures like the drug dealer needs his addicted customers. It needs Corona more urgently than an end to the pandemic. Because an end to the pandemic means that more attention will be focused on the mistakes that have been made....
Lettre ouverte aux enfants et à leurs parents
Je suis pédiatre et, à ce titre, j’ai vu progressivement se dégrader autour de moi l’état de bien-être psychoaffectif des enfants et des parents, alors même que la santé physique des enfants était bien conservée et que, dans leur grande majorité, ils n’étaient pas malades : la peur, l’anxiété,...
The egg, Corona and some news about vaccinations
A year ago, a remarkable article appeared in the British Medical Journal [1]. I wrote about it in more detail in my column in Karger Compass Pneumonology. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health rehabilitated the egg as a food after more than 50 years of research. No:...
Right to Selfdetermination and Monopoly of the Profession
Editor’s Note Here is an email from one of our readers to the medical college in the context of the trial against Dr. Benoît Ochs and for which he gave us permission to publish on our website. Nelly Antoine for the Expressis-Verbis Team Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen of...
Dr. Benoît Ochs
16 June 2021 was a special day for the Expressis-Verbis team and, on a more symbolic level, perhaps also for the health policy situation in Luxembourg. A general practitioner, caught between his professional conscience and a world of directives that opposed his medical convictions, made the decision to follow...
