By Francine Pelletier, Le Devoir, January 26, 2022
In her latest column for Le Devoir, renowned journalist Francine Pelletier asks:
“When will there be a new strategy, more open, more frank, less coercive and better suited to today’s pandemic?”
She begins by citing the pathbreaking Globe and Mail Opinion piece by Dr. Norman Doidge: Vaccines are a tool, not a silver bullet. If we’d allowed more scientific debate, we would have realized this earlier.
She writes:
Norman Doidge is not a conspirator, rest assured. Psychiatrist and director of a health think tank, he believes in vaccines and public health. Only, he dares to draw up an exhaustive assessment of the errors of the last two years – including the lack of debate, precisely, surrounding health issues. From the outset, he mentions fluvoxamine, a drug authorized by Ontario, half-heartedly just before Christmas. It is a “repurposed drug”, initially designed as an antidepressant, but which has proven effective in treating the coronavirus in vulnerable people.