Tea at Trianon: Health Priorities for the Nation in 2025

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Thursday, December 26, 2024

Health Priorities for the Nation in 2025

From Sharyl's Substack:

1. Quickly move to end reliance on foreign countries, particularly adversaries like China, for critical medicine.
2. Transform the Health and Human Services (HHS) mission and goal into one that prioritizes identifying the causes of illnesses and preventing them, over simply treating them with pharmaceuticals and other therapies.
3. All health policies shall err on the side of safety.
4. Redefine CDC’s function and mission so that it is not a vaccine marketing arm and provides balanced information, advice, and guidance.
5. Redefine FDA’s core mission so that it is firewalled from pharmaceutial company influence.
6. Identify, declare, and prioritize the long-ignored national public health emergencies, such as the explosion in autism and chronic disease epidemics.
7. Establish and adopt a strict policy of tranparency and service to the public rather than to the pharmaceutical industry or other commercial interests.
End the practice of claiming public health information at the agencies is “proprietary” (shared with pharmaceutical companies and other corporations, but withheld from the public).
8. Analyze the agencies’ public health information and directives online and elsewhere, and make corrections and updates.
Material should reflect the true status of medical and pharmaceutical questions, and eliminate one-sided propaganda. This means eliminating false information contained in material that claims things are “myths” or “debunked” when they are not.
Create an accessible resource that explains any changes and provides links to citations.
9. Notify commonly used resources such as YouTube, Google, Wikipedia, and WebMD of any changes to make sure they reflect the new information.
Also notify medical associations, medical journals, and fake fact checkers such as Science Feedback and Health Feedback, so that they harmonize their work to reflect the corrected information.
10. Put medical journals on notice that they will be held accountable for publishing slanted or false information and studies. (Read more.)