Sunday, June 7, 2015

Prince Charles as a Conspiracy Theorist and His Views on Alternative Medicine



The Daily Beast explains:
So, now we know why Prince Charles and the government fought so hard to get his letters to ministers suppressed.

It is the sheer sense of entitlement, the arrogance and the usually-fulfilled expectation of obedience that oozes from every typewritten word of the second and final cache of letters, released this week...

The tone is simultaneously hectoring, demanding, victimized and arrogant; Charles manages to convey both an expectation that anything other than automatic deference to him would constitute lèse-majesté, and a sense of bafflement that his plainly entirely reasonable, nay ‘splendid’ plans even require further discussion before implementation.

He also, somewhat hilariously, gets a case of the ‘poor me’s’ in one letter, perceiving a conspiracy by the establishment against him.

He complains about the “waves of invective” he has endured “over the years from parts of the Medical and Scientific Establishments (sic)” regarding his views on alternative medicine.

Charles comes across as a confused and confusing cross between a pernickety, detail-obsessed former headmaster and a trendy vicar who has just picked up Eckhart Tolle, but got no further than chapter one...

One of Charles’s main goals seems to have been the full-scale integration of alternative medicine into Britain’s mainstream, publicly-funded National Health Service (NHS).

And we are not just talking about the odd cup of dandelion tea here. Charles airily called for spending cuts at three existing NHS homeopathic hospitals to be reversed, in utter disregard of complex budgetary calculations performed by local primary care trusts.

Complementary and alternative medicine—described as ‘quackery’ and ‘witchcraft’ by the British Medical Association, of which he was once, controversially, president—has long been known to be one of the Prince’s pet hobby horses.

While many normal people (who might not necessarily believe that talking to one’s plants would help them grow, as the Prince claimed in a 1986 interview) would have sympathy with the Prince’s arguments that complementary medicine should form part of an ideal national health service, it is equally clear that a successful outcome to Charles’s concerted lobbying campaign to have such treatments brought into the NHS would require a root and branch rethink of how the Health Service operated and was funded in the UK....

Let us remember that the whole point of a constitutional monarch is that they do not set policy, but in the most damning letter—to the then Health Secretary Alan Johnson—this is exactly what Charles seeks to do. He offhandedly calls for a pilot of alternative medicines in the NHS in England.

“I mentioned the work that is underway in Northern Ireland and it would be splendid if you felt it might be possible to replicate this exploratory integrated project on the mainland, perhaps as a choice pilot? Do let me know what you think of these various projects…”

What would happen to the letter of anyone else in the land who wrote to the Health Secretary with such a set of “splendid” proposals is not hard to imagine. But Charles was, of course, dignified with a reply, and, incredibly, Johnson told him: “I will consider your suggestion of an exploratory project in England.”...

In one letter, Charles actually suggested that serving locally-sourced organic vegetables to hospital patients would be an appropriate use of resources. And then, while he was at it, he lightly proposed that this ‘highly imaginative’ idea could be extended to “schools and other public sector bodies”.

Well, why not eh? Jolly good idea, what?

But, has the man ever seen the prices at an organic farmer’s market, one wonders?

The minister responds, as he always does, promising (wearily?) that he will “certainly look at these projects.”

7 comments:

  1. One only has to have heard his views on man-made global warming and population control to know that he is a total loon.

    Long live the Queen!

    http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/2014_january.htm#oaf

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  2. the only difference between Charles and the 'Minister' is that the minister claims he is this wonderful person in a popularity contest every couple of years.

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  3. He is a member of The Cabal and a figure of darkness, it seems to me. But, he is right on many of these 'alternative theories,' such as plants sensing our words and thoughts. And, I used to pooh-pooh cold fusion/low energy nuclear reactions, parroting what I read in the '80s to discredit Pons and Fleischmann. But, then I read 'The Source Field Investigations' and independent assessments of the Rossi eCat, and believe that cold fusion is real (but suppressed to keep oil 'king'):
    www.elforsk.se/Global/Omv%C3%A4rld_system/filer/LuganoReportSubmit.pdf
    http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3913
    http://www.scribd.com/doc/105322688/Penon4-1

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  4. Inbreeding is not good. Inbreeding is what did the Family in, allowing the democratic insanity to flourish. Prince Charles is a borderline idiot, and, really, we should feel pity for him - and wonder why people are spending so much attention on the ravings of a half-wit with over-expressed recessive alleles in his defective genome.

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  5. And we care about the whimsies and follies of the ruling class because?

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  6. What is really crazy is that he seems to think that the purpose of the NHS is to force people who are unhealthy to somehow be healthy. Loony.

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