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The patient and the collective. Dr. Malone reverses “Utilitarian Bioethics”

Kennedy said the U.N. General Assembly had overstepped its role, and that the United States could not accept the promotion of abortion and “gender ideology.”

“We believe in the biological reality of sex,” Mr. Kennedy said. “As President Trump has said, global bureaucrats have absolutely no business attacking the sovereignty of nations that wish to protect innocent life.”

Corporate media ignored it. Dr. Robert Malone reads that silence as a signal: “That’s usually an indication he said something they don’t like, but they don’t quite know how to criticize it.

Days later, the President stood with Kennedy, Bhattacharya, Makary, and Oz. Autism, vaccines, and Tylenol in pregnancy were on the table. He opened the event with words held back for decades: “I’ve been waiting for this for twenty years, for this moment.” The reference pointed to Barron Trump, who is turning twenty, and has long been rumored to face spectrum challenges. The inference was plain.

Barack Obama struck back in a short video, accusing the President of “committing violence against the truth.” Malone underscores the irony: “If that isn’t a propaganda statement that is profoundly twisted, think about it.”

The Tylenol debate took center stage. Data link acetaminophen during pregnancy to autism and ADHD. The biological mechanism runs through glutathione depletion and folate pathways. Leucovorin, a folate analog, has shown benefit in some children. The drug’s risks have long been underestimated. “There is certainly a large body of evidence indicating an association between autism, ADHD, and exposure to Tylenol during pregnancy.” The common over-the-counter medicine carries a narrow safety margin. “It has a fairly narrow therapeutic window. If you take too much, it can really hurt you.”

The focus then shifted from medicine to politics. Trump’s instincts, tested in New York media, proved resilient. “The man is a genius in, among other things, media. He has survived it, thrived, learned how to thrive in it.” His appeal lay not in promises of equality but in a sense of fairness. “Kids don’t want equality of outcome. What they want is fairness.”

That set up the larger divide. Public health now speaks the language of the collective. Medicine, in contrast, is rooted in the duty to the patient. “Public health is fundamentally based on utilitarian logic and focused on advancing the interests of the collective. Medical practice historically is focused on the patient as an individual.”

Utilitarian bioethics* now dominates universities. Its premise—maximizing happiness for the greatest number—places power in the hands of whoever defines “happiness.” Some bioethics papers have even argued for engineering humans to be allergic to meat in the name of climate change. Malone’s verdict was blunt: “Once you buy into that greatest happiness for the greatest number logic, then you can justify almost anything.”

The hearings turned personal. Malone described the culture of censorship as a form of arrested development. “This failure of empathy… that is what we are dealing with.” The Biden administration pressed Google to suppress dissenting voices. Senator Richard Blumenthal turned a metaphorical meme into an accusation. The image of Russian roulette, a revolver with one live round, was framed as a threat against scientists. “What Senator Blumenthal did was he projected his own psychology and then used it to defame me.

The controversy deepened with a video statement to parents warning about the risks of COVID vaccines in children. Malone pointed out the potential for clotting and immune damage. The press and politicians reframed his warning as a claim that vaccines cause AIDS. His words had been clear: “These products can cause a form of acquired immunodeficiency. It’s not the same as HIV-caused AIDS, but it is an acquired immunodeficiency.

The failures of diagnosis and record-keeping offered proof of systemic collapse. In West Texas, two Mennonite girls died. Doctors assumed measles pneumonia, though signs pointed to bacterial infection. Both deaths were treatable. “This was a case of medical malpractice.” During COVID, similar errors multiplied. Respiratory illness defaulted to COVID. Influenza vanished from the charts. “The entire database is contaminated.”

Years of attacks left scars but also a strange calm. “One of my special powers is that over the last five years, I’ve had all that indignation burned out of me. Instead of how can they possibly say that, my response is, isn’t it amazing that they’re saying that? They’re just further delegitimizing themselves.”

*PS, my own recent observation about “bioethics” is that it may entail the shortest oxymoron in the English language (given the evolving, continual double standards: self contradictions, such as formally (a generation ago) being against genital mutilation, such as clitoridectomy; then turning around and advancing “gender affirmation”).


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