There is going to be an accountability crisis in our institutions. They have knowingly and actively participated in medical practices (Gender Affirming Care) that have little to no evidence of their efficacy and plenty of evidence of their harm. The lawsuits are just around the corner as children are still
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Dead Wild Roses: The WPATH Files – Medical Malpractice – Pgs 33 – 34
Get the WPATH files here. This is big folks. The WPATH files show exactly how unscientific gender medicine is. It is a travesty that a ‘professional association’ could be so irresponsible. But see for yourself. Link to the analysis.
Continue readingDead 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 readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Quote of the Day – The Corruption that is Gender Ideology – Gays Against Groomers
This quote from GAG illustrates exactly how gender ideology has unscrupulously inserted itself into our society and institutions. It subverts ideas and twists programs that sound like what they once were but now align with the tenets of regressive gender ideology. This is why it so hard to convince low
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: The Heart Of The Perennial Wisdom
Or, The Heart Of The Perennial Philosophy The Crux, Or Core Of The Matter: What is the nature of good and evil, being and reality? An open letter to two fine gentlemen, on my favourite philosophy podcast:Seekers Of Unity I must say, with great respect, this is an excellent and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: I killed ten with my own hands! – The Bright Line Between Good and Evil – Sam Harris
This is the full article. I think it is important enough to not lose readers who will read an excerpt and stop there. Go to the The Free Press to get the link to the podcast – “In the wake of Hamas’s October 7 attack, it’s important to
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Dangerous actors — corporate and political
Progressive punishment is not enough to regulate behaviour when an offender has extraordinary wealth. To a corporation like Teck Resources Ltd. — market capitalization $29 billion — inconsequential fines are minor costs of doing business. A $1 million penalty imposed on Teck corresponds to a fine of $11 levied on
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Professional Use of AI
Not so long ago, I wrote a piece on some of the ethical question marks that Large Language Model (LLM) Artificial Intelligence (AI) raises. In the last week not one, but two, topics were brought to my attention that I consider to be examples of the dangers of naive application
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Children Are Bring Harmed – The Lack of Ethics in “Gender Affirming” Medicine
If you are violating one of the principles of human medicine – first do no harm – it may be wise to reconsider your position on ‘gender-affirming treatment’ regardless of how lucrative it is. “Children are being harmed. Young people are being harmed. In many ways, this story is not
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Exploring The Activist Left’s Framing of Issues – Racism
Investigate the two options given. Which one requires a cultural commissar to ensure you’re doing it right? I think most people are still going to pick “A” in private, but due to negative pressure and threat in society might choose “B” in public. It is only your integrity that is
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Ethics In Artificial Intelligence
The emergence of “large language model” chatbots like ChatGPT and others raises major philosophical and ethical questions that we need to start talking about now. Back in 1950, Alan Turing attempted to open this discussion with the proposal of what became known as the “Turing Test“. Today’s ChatGPT looks
Continue readingScripturient: An Odium of Politicians
The proper collective noun for a group of politicians is “an odium,” at least according to James Lipton in his delightful book, An Exaltation of Larks (Ultimate Edition, Penguin Books, 1993). I was thinking of how appropriate that term is, this week, when I read the odious comments from our
Continue readingScripturient: Vindication At Last!
The headline in CwoodToday reads, “OPP concludes investigation into JI events; no charges laid.” After ten years, the OPP finally shut down the investigation that actually concluded several years ago. And even then we knew the results: no one under investigation broke any laws. Not even the Municipal Act or
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Practical guide to impossible conversations | Peter Boghossian x Brain Bar
One of the curses that progressives that have gone awry (the woke) bring to the table is often the disregard of objective fact. For the faux-progressive sets, the more oppressive factors that you happen to bring to the situation makes your insights somehow more relevant and more important (‘truthier’) than
Continue readingScripturient: Should mayoral candidates endorse council candidates?
One of Collingwood’s current mayoral candidates is doing meet-n-greet events and openly endorsing a fixed slate of the seven council candidates she wants to be elected with her (but not, curiously, a deputy-mayor; see below). Is this appropriate for a would-be mayor? I don’t believe so. First, in the last
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Free Expression in Society – The Attack on Salman Rushdie
Be very concerned when certain groups of people consider themselves untouchable and their ideas sacrosanct. Religious belief on the right and on the left (gender religiosity) is poisonous for a society that values free speech and communication.
Continue readingScripturient: The Misogynist Bully Files for Deputy Mayor
Councillor Bob “Lapdog” Madigan — council’s most notable bully and misogynist — filed his papers for deputy mayor, a position for which he is supremely unqualified. Well, to be fair, he’s not really qualified for any council position, is he? In almost eight years in office, Madigan’s accomplishments have been…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Queer Theory is Gender Marxism – James Lindsay
James Lindsay purports to find a common thread among the new critical theories that have garnered attention in the United States and to a lesser extent, Canada. For the purposes of the podcast, he summarizes what Marxism is and some of the related terminology (including marxist-feminism 18:50). Different points of
Continue readingScripturient: Council Gives a Bad Name to Train Wrecks
In his latest post, fellow blogger Chris Potts opines on our council’s misogynistic bullying of former councillor Tina Comi that resulted in her resignation from the toxic environment in local politics. Potts calls our council a train wreck, noting: …my true opinion of this council and the only thing that
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