Pairodocs' Podcasts

Pairodocs' Podcasts

Pairodocs - the antidote to groupthink

Episodes 36
Avg. Duration 30m
Activity Active
Since Jun 2022
Latest Episode Feb 2026

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Monthly
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Episodic
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About This Podcast

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

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Recent Episodes

Making death the easy choice

Feb 27, 2026 20m

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…

Deadly Compassion

Feb 26, 2026 22m

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…

Assisted Suicide, Suffering, and Slippery Slopes

Feb 24, 2026 20m

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…

Political tipping points

Oct 25, 2025 16m

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…

Are we being killed with kindness?

Sep 10, 2025 34m

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…

Do Flu Shots "Save Lives"?

Jan 31, 2025 34m

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”. …

What's the D-eal on D

Apr 07, 2024 42m

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…

Is there Harm in Harm Reduction - Part 4

Feb 10, 2024 19m

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…

Is there Harm in Harm Reduction - Part 3

Feb 08, 2024 15m

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…

Is there Harm in Harm Reduction? Part 2

Feb 03, 2024 19m

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…

Is there Harm in Harm Reduction

Feb 02, 2024 7m

(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…

Canadian Federal Court Rules Invocation of The Emergencies Act was Unjustified

Jan 24, 2024 32m

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…

Dr. Ken Zucker

Oct 22, 2023 48m

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…

Dr. Eric Payne

Oct 20, 2023 31m

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…

James Manson

Oct 18, 2023 46m

(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…

Lisa Bildy

Oct 14, 2023 30m

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…

Dr. Aaron Kheriaty

Oct 13, 2023 50m

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…

Dr. Gad Saad

Oct 12, 2023 21m

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…

Amy Hamm

Oct 02, 2023 22m

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…

Dr. Aris Lavranos - Doctor&Lawyer

Sep 27, 2023 28m

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…

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