Prince Charles

The royal is actively undermining the public’s understanding of and trust in medical science, at a time when global anti-vaxxing panic has triggered measles outbreaks that have killed thousands of people

By Rivkah Brown; @RivkahBrown

Source: The Independent Voices

He is welcome to mainline milkweed to his heart’s content in private; but perhaps he should think twice before giving it his approval in public ( )

If there’s one thing I miss about working in government, it’s the high-grade gossip. The best piece I picked up when I was a policy adviser at the Department for Culture involved a quivering official being berated by none other than our future king. The department, Charles informed his servant civilly, was failing in its duty to an important industry: heritage crafts. That’s right, folks: the department whose budget George Osborne cut by more than a billion pounds was, according to the prince, neglecting flintknapping, hat-plaiting and tinsmithing.

Of course, this wasn’t Charles’ first rodeo. The prince has a long history of lobbying the government on matters close to his heart, a history that became public in 2010 with the publication of dozens of letters Charles sent government ministers during the 2000s. Curiously, the “black spider memos” were so-called not for the sinister aspect of a prince’s underhand interference in matters of state but for their author’s signature scrawl.

The letters displayed Charles’ characteristic percipience, his ability to see past the problems of the peasant masses to his own pet peeves. Among the issues he asks ministers to address are sheep-hefting, dry-stone-walling and – lest we forget – “the poor old albatross”. Yet such concerns seem almost sane compared with Charles’ crazed infatuation with homeopathy.

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Suggested reading and viewing

Is laughter the best medicine for homeopathy?

The Muslim Times has a good collection of articles about homeopathy

Ted Talk: Homeopathy, Quackery and Fraud

Richard Dawkins on Medicine, Placebo and Homeopathy

Homeopaths offer services ‘to help fight’ Ebola epidemic in west Africa

Homeopathy not effective for treating any condition, Australian report

The contagious thought that could kill you

Not only is there no evidence that homeopathy works. It CANNOT work unless “water has a memory”. If they could show that they’d win the Nobel Prize for Physics as well as Medicine. Needless to say, they can’t. Homeopathy is fraud, pure & simplehttps://t.co/Iw2JTUIKj3

— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) October 28, 2019