A Question of Duty Military - Whistblower, David McBride by 4PR - Voice of the People published on 2021-12-04T10:41:15Z There is something not quite right about Military Whistleblower, David McBride. I remember when David’s father William McBride was presented to the world as a hero for exposing thalidomide … actually it was probably not even McBride who discovered that thalidomide caused defects in children … the ABC claims it was a midwife, Sister Pat Sparrow. [ABC: “Dr William McBride: The flawed character credited with linking thalidomide to birth defects” @ https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2018-06-29/thalidomide-william-mcbride-flawed-character-norman-swan/9920608] Why did David go to Afghanistan? McBride: “I went to grad school in Sydney, I joined the British military first, I went to Sandhurst, I went to Oxford University. I was never like Julian Assange, I was never sort of against the Americans. I was never against the British. I really believed in the rule of law. I did a tour of operations in Northern Ireland.“ David said that he was an idealist and believed in authority and that Australia (and Britain) were doing the right thing. That’s one of the misconceptions that whistleblowers and sort of our activists or bomb throws generally where people very much believe in doing the right thing, when we believe we believe the propaganda that actually the the government is good and the government follows the law. What does that make whistle-blowers who do not like military industrial complex? Are we to refer to Julian Assange, or Chelsea Manning, or Snowden as activists or bomb throwers? And what about Grace Tame, are we to think that she has a political agenda when she led to the exposure of our parliamentarians for their lies and hypocrisy in their treatment of sexual harassment and abuse? David was nearly 30 years of age when his father was exposed as fraudster and was struck off the medical register. Many women suffered as a result of his father’s falsification of drug trials. William McBride got away with it for years because he was made a hero for detecting that thalidomide caused abnormalities in children. But McBride was looking for recognition. He was not a researcher. It was a geneticist and paediatrician Professor Widukind Lenz who discovered how thalidomide caused abnormalities. Why was David so blind that he could not see the lies put out by British and Australian governments? Since the early 1990s the ‘coalition of the willing‘ was using depleted uranium causing widespread abnormalities in Iraqi children. How medieval is that? And he calls the Taliban evil? “The Gulf War may have been a triumph against Saddam Hussein, but increased numbers of cases of cancer among war veterans and Iraqi civilians have been alleged ever since, and have been linked to the use of DU” – The Lancet February, 2001 @ https://doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(00)00208-4 The depleted uranium was exposed by the Lancet, the same medical journal that published his father’s letter, in December 1961, noting a large number of birth defects in children of patients who were prescribed thalidomide (by him). David went to Oxford … so w for more see