Tea at Trianon: Trump and RFK Jr. Just Shut Down Federal Support for Gain-of-Function Experiments

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

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Trump and RFK Jr. Just Shut Down Federal Support for Gain-of-Function Experiments

From The Vigilant Fox:

Before he ever stepped into office, RFK Jr. was warning the public about something few dared to touch—gain-of-function research.
Long before most people had even heard the term, Kennedy was calling out Dr. Anthony Fauci for experimenting on viruses, making them more deadly under the guise of science.
He explained it plainly: scientists were taking wild viruses and making them more contagious, more lethal, then building vaccines to counter the threats they’d just created. And for what purpose?
“The only real rationale,” Kennedy said, “is to develop bioweapons, and then develop a defense to those bioweapons.”
It wasn’t a fringe theory. It was happening under Fauci’s watch, and Kennedy revealed that Fauci even got a 68% raise from the military for his role in these new “military responsibilities.”
Now, fast forward to today. Kennedy is no longer just a whistleblower.
He’s the Secretary of Health and Human Services, standing beside President Trump as history is made.
In a moment that critics have been demanding for years, Trump signed an executive order banning federal funding for gain-of-function research. This is the kind of dangerous experimentation that many believe led directly to the COVID-19 pandemic.
And now, it’s over. (Read more.)