Trust the science? Never, never, never

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liar, liar, face on fire

As any rational person knew, and was savagely criticised for saying so.

IT WAS OBVIOUS EARLY ON THAT SURGICAL MASKS, CLOTH MASKS, AND OTHER “FACE COVERINGS” WERE JUST FOR SHOW, AND THAT ONLY N95 MASKS DID ANYTHING SIGNIFICANT: Pro-Maskers Accidentally Admit Masks Don’t Work, Debunking Anthony Fauci And Years Of Mandates.

In a new letter to the WHO head, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, several mask fanatics, in an effort to promote the use of N95 respirators, claim that surgical masks do not “provide adequate protection against flu-like illnesses including COVID,” according to The Guardian. The letter says that there is “no rational justification remaining for prioritizing or using” surgical masks, because they provide “inadequate protection against airborne pathogens.”

Hilariously, one of the organizers of the letter, Professor Adam Finkel of the University of Michigan School of Public Health, also debunked one of the most popular pro-masking arguments. Anyone who argues against masking on social media has come across someone responding, “Well, if masks don’t work, why do doctors wear them?” Ignoring, of course, that not all doctors wear masks, only surgeons do.

But Finkel specifically highlights that those masks were never supposed to stop viruses or respiratory infections, but were “invented to stop doctors and nurses from sneezing into the guts and the hearts of patients.”

Finkel went further, saying that surgical masks are to respirators as typewriters were to computers. Those masks, he continued, are “obsolete.”

So the forever maskers now admit that cloth or surgical masks do not stop airborne viruses. They admit that surgeons do not wear masks to stop respiratory viruses, and that wearing lower-grade masks, the exact type worn by the vast majority of the world for years on end to stop COVID, could not have possibly stopped COVID.

N95 masks only work if they’re fresh, clean, and discarded after a few hours of use. One that you pull out of a pocket or purse is little better than a surgical mask. Masking was about compliance, not health.

Posted at 6:18 pm by Glenn Reynolds

Unfortunately, the Baked Bean State's gain is its northern neighbors' loss

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High-tax Massachusetts has lost 200K residents to other states over the past 5 years

Massachusetts, long a bastion of progressive politics and high taxes, has quietly watched the equivalent of one-and-a-half Cambridges pack up and leave. 

A new analysis from the Pioneer Institute finds that more than 182,000 net domestic residents exited the commonwealth between April 2020 and July 2025, a sustained outflow that researchers describe as a lasting structural shift rather than a brief pandemic aftershock.

The report, “The Massachusetts’ Labor Force: Now and Beyond,” paints a picture of a state grappling with affordability pressures, demographic decline and slowing economic momentum. 

Those leaving skew younger, particularly adults between 26 and 34, draining the state’s future workforce and tax base.

The young professional class has simply moved across the border into southern Maine and New Hampshire, where they’ve set about busily recreating the social and government structures they claim to be fleeing. Stay put, Massholes.

Happy landings, A**hole

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David Strom insists that we watch this entire 4-minute video of Gordon Guyatt’s immolation — “I promise you it’s worth it”. And he’s absolutely right (if just for the hilarious enjoyment of watching a “noted scientist” blow himself up), but be sure to read Strom’s entire column as well.

A Perfect Encapsulation of Why Nobody Trusts the Establishment Anymore

Dr. Gordon Guyatt is commonly referred to as "the father of evidence-based medicine."

That's a pretty lofty title to have, even if it's spoken informally. But Guyatt came to have it for a reason: he helped formalize a method and a movement to inject more scientific rigor into the practice of medicine, making it less of an art and more of a science. 

The goal is simple: base medical practice on high-quality research that removes bias by using systematic reviews of the literature to ensure people don't just pick results they favor. 

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But what happens when the "father of evidence-based medicine" takes a swipe at systematic reviews that demonstrated that "gender affirming care" is based on quack science? Hilarity ensues, if all you care about is a man who is full of himself gets taken down a peg; the destruction of the credibility of the entire medical infrastructure, if you actually think about it. 

Please watch the entire four minute video. I promise it is worth it:

The statement is still up, complete with the words medically necessary and Dr. Gordan Guyatt's name. https://t.co/kE6S5V6ZRi

— Mia Hughes (@_CryMiaRiver) February 25, 2026

Guyatt heads the McMaster University Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, and as the lead he penned a letter along with four—just four—colleagues arguing that, despite systematic reviews showing that gender medicine is based on low quality evidence, it should continue to be allowed to be used on children. 

On the webpage where this letter was released, the term "medically necessary" was used and included in the letter was the accusation that any attempt to stop sterilizing and mutilating children was anti-2SLGBTQIA+ bias. 

Here's how it all begins:

Systematic reviews related to gender-affirming care

Posted on August 14, 2025

Members and allies of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities have raised concerns about recent systematic reviews related to gender-affirming care. These concerns center on the funding source, and specifically on the potential for the research to be misused to harm trans youth and to deny gender-affirming care. 

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The letter ends by noting that the department, or perhaps the signatories including Dr. Guyatt, contributed to a legal defense fund to be used to ensure that children could continue to be sterilized and mutilated. 

So Guyatt, the man to whom the entire movement to based medicine on high-quality evidence, was the primary signatory of a letter from a department he heads, trashed people trying to save children from mutilation. And when confronted on the contradiction, he...whiffs.

"I didn't say that!" 

Oh, I did? Well, I, the man who insists on careful examination of the evidence, didn't actually read a statement put out under my name and including paragraphs I wrote. How dare you call me on it! It's unfair! That was then, this is now!

Is it any wonder that our trust in the medical establishment has collapsed? It absolutely, positively, should have collapsed, because this is what "trust The Science™" looks like. 

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I like the idea of EBM—rely, to the extent you can, which is limited—on the best evidence possible to make treatment decisions. At its best, medicine should produce better results than witch-doctory, and even though we are in a position where there are a lot of diseases and conditions for which we really don't have great evidence for treatments, we should do our best to get it, and rely on the best evidence where possible. 

That is, unless a powerful interest group bullies you into violating every principle you have. In that case, do everything you can to discredit the people who want to rely on the evidence. 

That's how you get the signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration, who opposed the COVID pandemic insanity, being called "fringe epidemiologists" by the most powerful doctors in the world. Evidence is one thing, but when ideology interferes, drop the evidence and go with the crowd. 

Watch that podcast clip again. It is the self-destruction, in real time, of a man who had the power to make a difference by doing the right thing and who chose not to. He literally didn't read what he helped author and sign, using his well-earned authority to trash people whom he was told to trash. He tossed his whole identity away because the 2SLGBTQIA+ "community" told him to. 

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Unfortunately, this behavior is common among our "expert" class, who use their prestige as a political cudgel. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which sounds all expert-y, is a bunch of cranks lecturing us about foreign policy. Climate "scientists" are politically-motivated bullies shilling for politicians and industries who are burning trillions of dollars to change the weather. 

"We only have 7 years to save planet earth!" Yeah, right. Heard that one back in 1981. All the glaciers will be gone by 2018! Yada yada. 

It isn't just cranks—it's most of the "expert" class, who deserve the same credibility as journalists and Adam Schiff. 

This is both a tragedy and a crisis. A tragedy, for obvious reasons. And a crisis because science and expertise are the foundation of the modern world. We need medicine that is not dangerous quackery, yet when push comes to shove, the "best and the brightest" sacrifice science to the political gods. 

In this case, they sacrificed children. 

Guyatt promised "If you can find the words medically necessary in my statement I'll have to jump off a bridge." 

I suggest he do so, at least metaphorically. Resign. 

"Oysterman"

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Pine Tree Poll February 24 2026

The latest Pine Tree State Poll from the University of New Hampshire brought disturbing news for Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Tuesday when it showed Graham Platner with a significant lead in a senate general election.

In the Democratic primary, the radical political newcomer Platner drastically outperformed the aging Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine), with a blowout 38-point lead, as Platner drew 64 percent support compared with Gov. Mills’ 26 percent.

That lead has increased by four points since the Pine Tree State Poll’s October results.

Directly related

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If you’re ashamed to be an American, if you believe it was built on stolen land by racist slave holders, you also don’t believe that you have the right to defend its borders or yourself.

Oregon Dems vote against notifying ICE when illegal immigrant felons are released from jail. “Under Oregon’s sanctuary state statute, known as the ‘Sanctuary Promise,’ local and state law enforcement are forbidden from cooperating with federal immigration authorities, including ICE detainers. The state has repeatedly released illegal immigrants charged with serious felony crimes, including murder, kidnapping, child rape, and illicit drug distribution, into the public after refusing to notify federal authorities. Many of them have reoffended.”

I predict great things for this song and its writer: like, how groovy it is!

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"Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice  

Singing through the bloody mist  

We’ll take our stand for this land  

And the stranger in our midst  

Here in our home they killed and roamed  

In the winter of ’26  

We’ll remember the names of those who died  

On the streets of Minneapolis"

Mind you, that old spoilsport Kurt Schlicter disagrees, but what does he know?

Crusty Democrat Dino Rockers Should Have Some Dignity

Ah, memories! I remember when he was just an aspiring would-be has-been, wailing his heart out on the streets of New Jersey