To Your Health?
jr., r. emmett tyrrell
dence suggests, the Earth has repeated
ly seen mini-cycles of warming and
cooling of about 1,500 years duration,
then any upward drift in temperatures
we may be seeing now-included...
...12 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR May 2001...
...Franklin would have been flying kites in London when the first shots were fired at Concord and Lexington...
...Thus the case for human-caused global warming can no longer rest on the mere fact of contemporary warming...
...In fact, after familiarizing myself with the work of two distinguished medical experts, I would go so far as to say that bad health and even serious disease have been instrumental in the creation of many priceless works of art...
...In fact we might be better off if more doctors became stock brokers and vitamins were prohibited...
...According to the Washington Post, which reported on the problem ear lier this year, the French impressionist Claude Monet suffered They gave him red-yellow vision...
...In time he lost the ability to distinguish the colors on his palette...
...The recently departed White House plunderer has dreadful allergies...
...Think of the marvelous achievements of old Ben...
...Andy Warhol created sophomoric stuff despite a string of discomforts that would have impressed Van Gogh...
...Clinton one less lech erous American hero to refer to in his They-All-Did-It defense...
...By all reasonable standards, Keigwin is a hero...
...Civilization would get nowhere without the sick BY R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR...
...economy, the human-caused global warming advocates would have to demonstrate a persuasive mechanism of human causation.This they show no sign of being able to do...
...Not only did he invent an ingenious way to compile an early temperature record, but he made a giant contribution to discrediting a To Your Health...
...from cataracts...
...Mussolini had terrible stomach problems and probably as many allergies as Clinton...
...As for the politicians, if they jogged less and coughed more the political condition of the world would be nearing that state of perfection that the editorialists of the New York Times seem to envisage when they write, for instance, about campaign finance and the abolition of tobacco...
...All this unusual health information comes to us from the researches of a California pathologist, Paul Wolf...
...Grasping the point, scientists at Exxon Mobil recent ly used the Keigwin data in a Wall Street Journal ad and the PC bees hit the fan...
...Owing to his painful pedals he often removed his shoes at public gatherings and, we are told, probably was in his stocking feet when he signed the Declaration of Independence...
...Remember when President Jimmy Carter lamented his hemorrhoids and when LBJ made the press's blood cool by revealing his gall bladder scar' Of course there are a few exceptions...
...energy consumption of some 30 percent, unfeasible without destroying the U.S...
...Consider this the next time you listen to Brahms's Lullaby...
...Had his feet not been throbbing with gout he might have worn shoes and made off to the mother country as a proudTory.What a loss to our Republic...
...The happy consequence was swirling reds and yellows, smoky blues and grays that have enraptured millions of people and made the old blinker famous...
...Some have even coyly suggested their own suffering to advance themselves up the scrolls of history...
...During L'affaire Monica that would have left President (former President...
...What is more, many of the greatest statesmen of modern times have been burdened with maladies-some too horrible to mention...
...For years now, researchers have been breaking the news of the many maladies suffered by such giants as Beethoven, Lincoln, the Roosevelts, and even John F Kennedy...
...dence suggests, the Earth has repeated ly seen mini-cycles of warming and cooling of about 1,500 years duration, then any upward drift in temperatures we may be seeing now-included scat tered anecdotes of thinning arctic ice is likely to be the result of such cycles...
...The link between illness and greatness has been a hidden truth but suspected by anyone who gave the subject a moment's notice...
...At the risk of sounding controversial let me deposit on the public record a thought: Bad health can be good for you...
...Ben Franklin, too, suffered gout...
...If politicians jogged less and coughed more the world would be nearing that state of perfection that the editorialists of the New York Times envisage...
...Mitchell Margolis, a pulmonary physician from Pennsylvania, has discovered that composer Johannes Brahms suffered a chronic sleep disorder that left him frazzled and irritable during the day...
...Stop harrumphing and allow me to explain...
...To justify drastic action like the Kyoto treaty requiring a reduction in U.S...
...Conversely, most of the mediocre and childish art of the late Twentieth Century is attributable to the excellent health of our artists, most of whom have fine teeth and creamy complexions...
...Pitt the Elder had gout, really ghastly gout...
...His contributions to British statecraft were momentous and had he had his way (in other words, were he a bit sicker) he could have wrought marvels for our 13 colonies...
...And there are other men of science whose work convinces me that America would be better off with no improvement in our health care system whatsoever...
Vol. 34 • May 2001 • No. 4
