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Common Sense – A Useless or Essential Tool in Life?

by Dr Patrick Quanten

We recognize common sense in our daily lives as something that makes sense to us. Common sense is generally defined as sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the...

Gabor Maté, Meet the Real Dr Spock:  He’s Not a Behaviourist!

by Nancy Blake

“Have a bite to learn to like it.   And stop making faces!”  my father would shout angrily, as, gagging and tearful, I struggled not to vomit over the “bite to learn to like it” of...

Health Freedom Restored to New York

by Don Baker

On July 26, 1994, the New York State Alternative Medical Practice Act was signed into law, marking further progress for non-drug therapies in New York.

Independence and Freedom

by Dr Patrick Quanten

Whenever people feel constrained by their environment, a power to break free is generated, whether it is breaking free from a government, from an authority or even from parents and ...

Is Choice of Healthcare a Human Right?

by Richard Eaton

This article is intended to stimulate discussion about how the remit of the Human Rights Act 1998 may or may not apply to the activities of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)...

Our Prime Enemy is Fear

by Dr Patrick Quanten

It strikes me that humanity is the first part in the entire creation of living organisms that live life in perpetual fear. All other plants and animals lead a basic life of acceptin...

Science is the New Church – God Forbid

by Alexander Barrie

Editor’s Note: Please note that the publishers of PH Online do not necessarily agree with all the content of the following editorial feature, but publish this as an alternative exp...

Self-Empowerment – Mind over Matter

by Dr Patrick Quanten

We live in a material world. That much should be obvious. This makes our first observations about life materialistic too. All we encounter seems to be a matter of matter. It appears...

The New Self-Sufficiency

by Dr Patrick Quanten

When people use the term ‘self-sufficiency’ we understand they are talking about being able to maintain oneself without any outside help. It makes us think about the basic needs of...

The Promise of a Better World Part I

by Dr Patrick Quanten

The Covid pandemic is leading us away from the known normal and into a new normal, one that we, ordinary citizens, are not supposed to know yet. On a need-to-know basis we will be t...

The Role of Authority

by Dr Patrick Quanten

Rules and regulations with the intention to avoid conflict, on the one hand, and the intention to increase efficiency on the other, are being invented every single day of our lives....