Apparently, Prince Charles recent pronouncement has created a riff in space-time, and an irony meteorite was ejected, striking the prince in the head. A photo follows.
From Raw Story: Prince Charles criticizes ‘corporate lobbyists’ and climate change skeptics for turning Earth into a ‘dying patient’
“If you think about the impact of climate change, [it should be how] a doctor would deal with the problem,” he told an audience of government ministers, from the UK and abroad, as well as businesspeople and scientists. “A scientific hypothesis is tested to absolute destruction, but medicine can’t wait. If a doctor sees a child with a fever, he can’t wait for [endless] tests. He has to act on what is there.”
He added: “The risk of delay is so enormous that we can’t wait until we are absolutely sure the patient is dying.”
Apparently, second opinions aren’t allowed by Royal medicine. The Daily Mash has the story of the irony meteorite.
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The beneficiary of the queen’s death was criticising climate change scepticism when he was struck on the forehead by a large, possibly homeopathic, chunk of irony.
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Health and safety consultant Nikki Hollis said: “Science is pretty sturdy and can generally cope with a person warning about CO2 emissions whilst being chauffeured around in a big fuck-off Bentley.
“But if you start using a doctor analogy like Charles did, when you’re convinced a £20 bottle of ghosts is the best treatment for serious illness, something’s bound to give.”
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Full story here
Marc Morano quips:
Despire getting the best education money can buy, the Prince’s ability at science was proven by exam to be non-existent. No need to say more.
Perfect example why the US does not have royalty. However, we do have Hollywood and congress…
The man is a buffoon! It’s sad that this guy might actually become the next British monarch.
You can only laugh at Prince Chuck. He’s so widely known to be so stupid that his endorsement serves better as a coffin-nail than anything else. When it comes down to it, every time he comes out with a public pronouncement of this nature, he’s really saying ‘my wife cuckolded me and the boys are not mine’, since he’s demonstrating they certainly didn’t inherit their brains from him (and it can be taken as read that DIana had none to pass on).
Years ago I was chatting with a senior member of the Royal household in a pub in Westminster when the topic of Queen Elizabeth’s possible abdication came up. I wondered if she ever might, and his response was ‘No, because of just one reason: Charles’. Ever wonder why the Queen Mother was kept alive so long? Practise for the Queen, so as to ensure Charles will be too old to take the throne before she eventually passes-on.
The prince’s argument would make more sense if his “doctors” weren’t prescribing blood-letting for the supposedly dying planet.
Missing link found. Hollywood liberals are descendants of the British Royal Family.
Phillip Bratby>
“Despite getting the best education money can buy”
Er, he didn’t. He’d have gone to Eton if the Family hadn’t known he was a complete thicko.
Interesting to compare Freeman Dyson’s use of the same doctor-patient metaphor:
In Edge 219, August 2007. I know who I’d like looking after me.
“If a doctor sees a child with a fever, he can’t wait for [endless] tests. He has to act on what is there.”
So if the child has a viral infection and you give him/her a massive dose of antibiotics, what have you accomplished except for endangering their life. If it was a bacterial infection and you used antiviral therapy, same outcome. What is that old adage, oh yes: Primum non nocere.
Most doctors are not of the opinion that a fever ensures that a child is dying. More of a naturally occurring phenomenon than that. The correct analogy is of a quack (can I say that about Dr. Mann, I certainly believe it) looking at a fever and concluding it’s the first fever ever while being certain of what (bad, very bad) will happen.
2:2 degree (Batchelor of Arts) in anthropology, archaeology and history.
If I was a warm-monger, and seeing that Prince Chucky is on my side, I would defect
@ur momisugly Tom in Florida
Tom in Florida says:
May 10, 2013 at 7:23 am
“If a doctor sees a child with a fever, he can’t wait for [endless] tests. He has to act on what is there.”
So if the child has a viral infection and you give him/her a massive dose of antibiotics, what have you accomplished except for endangering their life. If it was a bacterial infection and you used antiviral therapy, same outcome. What is that old adage, oh yes: Primum non nocere.
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Well said.
Prince Charles is a poor guy. It must disturb someone mind, when the only goal of your life is to become king and you have to wait for the death of your mother for that.
Sadly, the British are going to freeze to death! Unfortunately, the only ones that will survive are the Royalty. Shut down more coal mines, power plants, and other energy production facilities; the Royality will get their food from the “too warm, too much CO2” areas.
Surely a homeopathic sized piece of meteorite would be, for instance, the mass of a neutrino. I believe billions of those are passing through me on a daily basis, according to standard consensus models on subatomic particles, solar and stellar activity models.
Signed A Pedant
The new,improved 5th edition of the headshrinkers manual is out. No mention of weather related psychosis.Ummmm.Or maybe it falls under scams?
Prince Chuck is just a guy who has to put on his pants one leg at a time like the rest of us. His very spartan and sadistic schooling hasn’t helped him understand the real world at all and his friendship with Laurens Van der Post gave him a great “empathy” for nature. He believes that talking to his plants help them grow and thrive and that organic fruit and veg is good for the human organism.
Of course having lots and lots of money helps insulate him from the practicalities of life so in many ways he is typical of the west coast crystal gazers who make up a big slice of the Democratic Party support base. It is a great pity that he has never had to live by his choices unlike his dad, Phillip, who has a very sensible take on renewables and famously said of wind power “well that’s rubbish isn’t it”.
In many ways Charles is a decent fellow but you wouldn’t want him making medical decisions for you. Thankfully his two boys seem more solid and sensible so Chuck can go off and be Camilla’s tampon while talking to his plants.
He’s smarter than you all think. The “Firm” get 15% of the Crown Estate’s net revenues. Said revenues are about to rocket in proportion to the number and size of offshore windfarms planned for UK coastal waters over the next few years.
I really hope he abdicates! His son seems a little more level headed.
He is ready for a part in a Monty Python skit.
Follow the money. He wants to protect his royal budget with bets on liberal authority and the tendency of power that comes from giving away free candy with borrowed funds.
There is no secret why the Queen continues to hold the crown. Although there is always a Mother’s love, all moms can see the “writing on the wall” and she continues to protect the UK from his “barmyness”.
Tom in Florida says:
So if the child has a viral infection and you give him/her a massive dose of antibiotics, what have you accomplished except for endangering their life. If it was a bacterial infection and you used antiviral therapy, same outcome.
Antibiotics? Anti-virals? Are you daft, man?
Fever is a primary symptom of life threatening gangrene. The only reliable treatment is amputation. And there is no time for endless tests to determine which of the child’s limbs has gone necrotic – take them all!
/sarc.
Ah, decisions, decisions. Whom to believe? Prince Charles or 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley? I say, for an American it is quite a conundrum…. /sarc