Postscript: Concerns About Casey Means
I once asked my old mentor, Roger Scruton—a famous British political philosopher—why he’d never pursued a career in politics.
Because intellectuals are ill-suited for political decision making, which is about dealing with aggressive competing interests and finding compromises that are seldom entirely satisfying for any particular party.
This reminded me of a witty remark made by the 19th century Austrian statesman, Eduard Taaffe, who observed:
Politics is the business of keeping all interested parties in a state of equal dissatisfaction.
Yesterday, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. gave an interview with Brett Baier on FOX in which he endorsed President Trump’s new pick for Surgeon General, Casey Means.
“She walked away from traditional medicine because she was not curing patients,” Kennedy said. He was referring to the fact that Means never finished her residency and does not have an active medical license.
She couldn’t get anybody within her profession to look at the nutrition contributions to illness. If we’re really going to heal people, if we’re healers, we can’t
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