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Alexander Raikin

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Alexander Raikin

@AlexanderRaikin

Visiting fellow in bioethics & American democracy at @EPPCdc / interested in medical ethics and bad statistics / send tips to [email protected]

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Joined February 2022

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Alexander Raikin
@AlexanderRaikin
Aug 28, 2025
Jane, a 29-year-old woman with anorexia “in the midst of a mental health crisis”, was deemed by her physicians of being “no longer competent to consent to medical treatments.” So how did she legally receive assisted suicide medication in Colorado?
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Alexander Raikin
@AlexanderRaikin
Oct 25, 2023
It's official. MAID caused more than 4% of all deaths in Canada in 2022—a total of 13,241 deaths. It's a stunning thirteenfold increase over just seven years. If MAID was listed as an official cause of death, it would be effectively the 5th leading cause of death in Canada.
Alexander Raikin
@AlexanderRaikin
Sep 29, 2023
I'm calling it: the reason that the MAiD annual report still isn't out is because it'll show that MAiD caused more than 4% of all deaths in Canada, which will mean that MAiD will be around the 4th leading cause of death in Canada. It's not a linear growth: it's exponential
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Alexander Raikin
@AlexanderRaikin
Dec 16, 2022
What's going on with Canada's MAiD program? Let's ask the physicians in charge. This piece took a long time to report. I interviewed 50+ people. I went over two years of training seminars. And it turns out, MAiD in Canada is seriously flawed
‘I don’t want to die’ — New revelations on how Canada ushers the vulnerable to medically aided death
From thenewatlantis.com
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Alexander Raikin
@AlexanderRaikin
Oct 23, 2024
I just received a CD with a 285 page Freedom of Information request from the Government of Canada on their analysis on whether euthanasia should be expanded to minors. 230 pages were redacted.
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Alexander Raikin
@AlexanderRaikin
Sep 29, 2023
I'm calling it: the reason that the MAiD annual report still isn't out is because it'll show that MAiD caused more than 4% of all deaths in Canada, which will mean that MAiD will be around the 4th leading cause of death in Canada. It's not a linear growth: it's exponential
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Alexander Raikin
@AlexanderRaikin
Jan 4, 2023
What I still can't understand about euthanasia in Canada is the reality of it. Mary wants to live. "She has no other options"--in part because she's been maxing out her credit cards.
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Alexander Raikin
@AlexanderRaikin
Dec 1, 2024
Fact check: drowning in feces for 10 hours is a sign of medical neglect, not a reason to legalize a treatment option for medical malpractice by killing the patient first
Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧
@TiceRichard
Nov 30, 2024
Calum do grow up It is personal not party; those who’ve seen loved ones die in excruciating pain despite wonderful palliative care, feel that surely we should be able to do things better? Is forced drowning, slowly over 10 hours in your own faecal vomit, acceptable to you?
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Alexander Raikin
@AlexanderRaikin
Oct 21, 2024
“Euthanasia in Canada was meant to be rare and last resort, but it isn’t. It has become routine.... I don’t think it is a coincidence that this massive surge happens at the same time our health system is collapsing. It should ring alarm bells in Britain.”
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Alexander Raikin
@AlexanderRaikin
Aug 8, 2024
Replying to @shadihamid
This was Mosul in 2017 after NATO's push to retake the city from ISIS. At its height, there were only 6,000 - 12,000 militants. In comparison, in Gaza, there were initially 37,000 militants who had spent the last 15 years embedding their military assets in civilian areas
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Alexander Raikin
@AlexanderRaikin
Sep 14, 2023
Silencing whistleblowers. Laughing about sedating a patient into euthanasia. Expanding MAID to the vulnerable, homeless, and children, especially Indigenous children. The next cover story for @NRO tries to answer: how did death care replace health care?
How Death Care Pushed Out Health Care | National Review
From nationalreview.com
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Alexander Raikin
@AlexanderRaikin
Jun 23, 2024
Over the last couple years, posters like this have started popping up across Canada
Kristin M. Collier, MD
@HSRdirector
Jun 23, 2024
reminds me of what French pediatrician Jerome Lejeune once said: “A day will come when clinics will put a sign on their door 'here we do not kill' and patients will rush to these places of life.” what prescient words those were for our current cultural moment
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Alexander Raikin
@AlexanderRaikin
Nov 29, 2024
It’s remarkable that 330 disability organizations in the UK issued a statement against legalizing assisted suicide, the same number of MPs who voted in favour of it today.
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Alexander Raikin
@AlexanderRaikin
Nov 1, 2024
A couple of years ago, I wrote about Ellen Wiebe, a euthanasia practitioner, who gave a talk in the UK where she said that "Angry family members are our greatest risk." And then laughed. Wiebe is now a named party in a lawsuit from another "angry family member".
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Alexander Raikin
@AlexanderRaikin
Jun 4, 2024
Replying to @eric_knowles and @Noahpinion
You fell for a hate crime. You then shared it widely and gave it added legitimacy. It wasn't about the "grammatical mistake and a bad drawing". You validated the outlandish and bigoted claim that Jews in Melbourne were going door to door and threatening Muslims in their homes.
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