It’s back. Eliminated in 1998, thanks to vaccination, measles is making a comeback.This highly-contagious disease has been spreading around the world and there are now dozens of cases in this country, mostly in Ontario and Quebec. At the same time as measles is thriving, opposition to vaccinations has been increasing
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Dead Wild Roses: The WPATH Files – The Beginning of the End of the Farce of ‘Gender Affirming Care’.
Transgender ideology is based on lies and emotional coercion. Very effective lies and coercion mind you – enough to make doctors forget about the “do no harm” part of their medical training and instead take up gender-woo and non evidence based medical practices. So here it is – the beginning
Continue readingeaves.ca: Connie Eaves, mother in life and science
A trailblazer who eschewed politics, identity and recognition in favour of a tenacious pursuit of life’s secrets Like many women of her age, Dr. Connie Eaves’s career in science was filled with barriers— some that come with the discipline, others of her era. In 1970, when she first walked into
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Alan Urban writes about the reality that establishment institutions are working on normalizing civilizational collapse – as well as the need to fight back against that process. And Cory Doctorow discusses the appalling results of the juxtaposition of predatory private equity and health
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: What Happens After Nuclear War – In a Nutshell
Spoiler Alert: Nothing good.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Yes, Europe Is Restricting “Gender-Affirming Care” – Leon Sapir
Reproduced in full – Find the original here. “A common claim by Americans who oppose state restrictions on “gender-affirming care” is that Sweden, Finland, and the U.K. have not done away with hormonal interventions—and therefore that Republican lawmakers who seek such restrictions are going beyond Europe, and presumably
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: The Death Of Materialism & The Rebirth Of The World
The Newtonian-Cartesian paradigm, or world view, of atomistic, dualistic, mechanistic reductionism, is a very recent, 400 year old delusion, a recent blink of the eye, and is now crumbling as an ideology, world view or paradigm. It is also by no means “scientific”. The evidence now refutes it. It is
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Fossil Fuel Companies’ New Evil Strategy
There’s an effort underway by Conservatives and Fossil Fuel companies to suggest that fossil fuels are “sustainable”. This is an attempt to rebrand fossil fuels as non-harmful, when the reality is they’re causing much of the world’s pollution and breakdown in our climate. There are some ad agencies pledging to
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ryan Meili discusses how a blinkered focus on austerian “efficiency” and exit strategies prevents the development of care systems capable of meeting long-term needs. And Dione Wearmouth reports on the fallout from the UCP’s insistence on putting performative politics over even those
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: On History: Clarity & Delusion
It’s good to see some of the millennia-old illusions about history being slowly peeled away. To speak of the Roman Empire as, “the world’s greatest killing machine” is refreshingly honest. But to refer to it as bringing “civilization” continues the perpetuation of old delusions. A millennia-old Stockholm syndrome is just
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Liberals Are Right About Conservative Intentions
But the Liberals are wrong about the solution. Their betrayal on electoral reform has given the CPC’s PP power over them. They could be working collaboratively to implement things the NDP also want, instead there’s a sword hanging over their heads according to polling. Stability in our economy as it
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Archie Mitchell and Adam Forrest report on the revelation from the UK’s COVID inquiry that now-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was entirely eager to let people die, and considered it more important to control scientists than COVID-19 itself. And Luke LeBrun highlights how
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Scientific American is a Joke
This is what happens when you abandon the pursuit of knowledge for ‘social justice’. Ideological bullshite leaking from every pore. It is sad to see a popular science magazine flame out and lose all credibility. 🙁 James Esses documents SciAm’s fall from respectability. “When you come across the longstanding magazine,
Continue readingThings Are Good: A New Guide to Science Advocacy
Scientists used to think that sharing the facts and evidence of an issue was enough to sway policy makers and the general public. Unfortunately, with many issues facing us today there are vested interests looking to derail civil discourse around topics like climate change and vaccines. Today Evidence for Democracy
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: SaskPower On The Future of Net Zero
Balance he says. pic.twitter.com/elGKwknjSg — John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) October 17, 2023 SaskPower gave a lecture at the university about transmission and generation planning.
Continue readingClaiming Joy & Healing Amidst the Climate Emergency : Cultivating Quantum Consciousness in the Climate Emergency
How would embracing quantum thinking change the way we think about ourselves, the way we think about others, what we put out into the world? And what would that mean in the context of the Climate Emergency? How would that change our response to what we’re bombarded with on the
Continue readingThings Are Good: iNaturalist Goes Its Own Way
Way back in 2011 we took at a new app that helps to identify the world around, back then it was to help the California redwoods. That app is iNaturalist and it’s had a great decade plus of identifying all sorts of plants and animals. The app, which has a
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