The American Solution: Ban islam

     Whereas islam is a criminal code--not a religion.  And, considering that America is at war with islam, I propose the following policy:

Require that each domestic, America-residing muslim denounce islam, or, one will:

(1) lose all of one's property like islam teaches muslims to do to non-muslims.

And,

(2) lose one's liberty by either being imprisoned or exiled from The United States of America, according to our government's discretion.

For those Americans who think that my proposal is too harsh, I remind you that this is war-time.  And, after all, to avoid the consequences, all a muslim has to do is to say one denounces islam.

Paul Wharton
Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter

Special thanks to Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY) for being the fuel of my mind

The Threat of Climate Same

     At first, the environmental threat was "global warming".  Then that was debunked; and it became "global cooling".  But, that didn't last long.  So now, the Earth is undergoing deadly "climate change".  However, I contend that this may be statistically insignificant, and that the true threat is actually something entirely different from what the environmentalists have yet named.  I call this danger: "climate same".

As a former ecology major, before I discovered Objectivism, I know a lot about the science of the Earth.  Every species is affected by the environment--as evolution selects the survival of future offspring.  During times of static ecological change there are many fewer environmental forces to propel evolution.  Man evolved to be what the species is because of evolution.  If greater evolutionary progress is to continue, quickly, the Earth's climate must undergo rapid climate change.  On the other hand, the biggest threat to this human evolution is "climate same"--or, very little environmental alteration.

Now, I'm not entirely certain that what the Earth is experiencing, currently, is "climate same".  But, environmentalists have been wrong so many times in the past that it is very possible that there is no climate change occurring beyond the expected norm without Man.  Since, the philosophical, biological reasoning exploring the danger of widespread climate same holds, the environmentalists may have finally found their true pariah.  After all, if you think about it, there's nowhere left to go.  And fundamentally, the environmentalist philosophy, that identifies, as an axiom, that human beings must be the species that is destroyed--whether the threat is an environment that is: up, down, bipolar, or catatonic, is maintained by clinging to its conclusion that Man and his economic production are to be annihilated.  Perhaps, this innate nihilism in the anti-Man, environmentalist philosophy is what appeals to Obama so much--as can be seen so vividly in current news.

Paul Wharton
Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter

Special thanks to Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY) for being the fuel of my mind

Not unless there's enough life for everyone?

     As ObamaCare regulations, taxes, and unconstitutionalities progressively pile onto what could have been a private medicine market, the single greatest attribute of United States medicine for foreigners is going extinct.  It used to be that men, women and children of some means, all around the world, could fly to American hospitals to be treated for otherwise inaccessible or incurable ailments.  Due to the heavy socialist health care environments of European medicine (the second best to the U.S.) there really was nowhere else individuals could go to have a chance against the killer diseases of Man.

But, Obama is changing all this.  His egalitarian approach to...everything!...will make sure that no American, (and, along with that any European, Australian, Asian, African, Latin American...etc.), will be able to get more than one's "fair share".  In my analysis of his philosophy, I summarize Obama's attitude by the slogan, "Not unless there's enough life for everyone."

Those defenders of ObamaCare have sophisticated arguments that are indeed formidable.  After all, why should John be able to live when James cannot?  It's not fair that John has the money and life if James has neither.  So, John's money and life must be taken by government.  And, though James will soon die, anyway, at least he gets his "fair life share".

Now, this applies in lesser cases of medicine, as well.  For example, why should Page get to see a doctor for a broken arm when Gina got to the hospital first?  Just because Page has more money why should that decide?  Gina's arm has been broken longer.  She has suffered more.  And who is this doctor to try to make more money by seeing Page, anyway?

You may claim that these scenarios can be accommodated and absorbed because they belong to some special kind of realm called "catastrophic health care".  But, what about the common cold?  Joey has been out of school for a week.  His mom applied at the hospital two days in.  Suzy just got it.  Her mom is frantic--claiming that she got it from Joey because Suzy sits right behind him in homeroom.  But, Joey's first.  Just because Ellie went into a coma from whatever it is, how does the state know that Suzy will too?  Should Suzy's mom be able to buy off the medical establishment by mortgaging the house?  It's not fair!

Thus we have ObamaCare and it's philosophy of, "Not unless there's enough life for everyone."

Paul Wharton
Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter

Special thanks to Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY) for being the fuel of my mind

Ayn Rand Bookstore Recommended Books on Medicine

     The following is a reading list of my ranking of 12 books on medicine that were recommended by the Ayn Rand Bookstore catalogs over the years.  Their current website is: estore.aynrand.org

(1) The Billion-Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug
-by Barry Werth (429 pages)

(2) Doctors: The Biography of Medicine
-by Sherwin B. Nuland (489 pages)

(3) King of Hearts: The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery
-by G. Wayne Miller (245 pages)

(4) Your Doctor Is Not In: Healthy Skepticism About National Health Care
-by Jane M. Orient, M.D. (259 pages)

(5) Dr. Folkman's War: Angiogenesis and the Struggle to Defeat Cancer
-by Robert Cooke (350 pages)

(6) Decoding Darkness: The Search for the Genetic Causes of Alzheimer's Disease
-by Rudolph E. Tanzi and Ann B. Parson (247 pages)

(7) The Work of Human Hands
-by G. Wayne Miller (304 pages)

(8) Politicized Medicine
-by The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc. (154 pages)

(9) Animal Scam: The Beastly Abuse of Human Rights
-by Kathleen Marquardt (144 pages)

(10) The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS
-by Michael Fumento (396 pages)

(11) Addiction Is A Choice
-by Jeffrey A. Schaler, Ph.D. (146 pages)

(12) Code Blue: Health Care In Crisis
-by Edward R. Annis, M.D. (259 pages)

Paul Wharton
Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter

Special thanks to Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY) for being the fuel of my mind

Non-Ayn Rand Bookstore Books on Medicine

     In the last ten years I have read 22 books dealing with medicine.  The following is my ranking of those that were not recommended by the Ayn Rand Bookstore.

(1) The Antidote: Inside the World of New Pharma
-by Barry Werth (395 pages)

(2) A Promise for Life: The Story of Abbott (383 pages)

(3) Eli Lilly: A Life, 1885-1977
-by James H. Madison (269 pages)

(4) Louis Pasteur: Free Lance of Science
-by Rene Dubos (406 pages)

(5) All In A Century: The First 100 Years of Eli Lilly and Company
-by E. J. Kahn, Jr. (198 pages)

(6) Pharmaceutical Innovation
-by Landau, Achilladelis, and Scriabine (367 pages)

(7) Eli Lilly
-by Jesse Russell and Ronald Cohn (86 pages)

(8) Medicine And The State
-by Matthew J. Lynch and Stanley S. Raphael (423 pages)

(9) The Cure for Obamacare
-by Sally C. Pipes (52 pages)

(10) FDA: Failure, Deception, Abuse
-by Life Extension Foundation (479 pages)

Paul Wharton
Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter

Special thanks to Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY) for being the fuel of my mind