Big business and the billionaire oligarchs are now taking over science, after having already taken over the global economy, the financial system and money creation, almost all governments, and all the major media, including, of course, the Big Tech “social media”. Welcome to the Brave New World. You will be
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Accidental Deliberations: On climate pollution
Martin Olzynski’s submission this week has called plenty of attention to the Kenney UCP’s funding of climate denialism through an inquiry attacking environmentalism. But let’s note that the response to Olzynski’s observations only makes the inquiry look all the worse. Here’s the excuse from the inquiry’s spokesman: Boras suggested to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Toxic Individualism Destroying Rural Healthcare in US
This is an example of what happens when a society loses its base set of common values. Healthcare professionals are leaving or being chased out of small rural communities because they are espousing the evidenced based protocols (wearing a mask) that are based on the best available medical knowledge during
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Adam Finn writes about the factors which have allowed for the rapid development of safe COVID-19 vaccines. – Helen Tang discusses the stress and frustration she’s heard from the people she’s had to reach as a contact tracer. Madeleine Cummings tells the stories
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Ford’s Failings Match Every Conservative Province
Like many Conservative run provinces, Ontario is facing a slow motion disaster in the second wave. The stalwart “Resistance” Premiers, opposed to a carbon tax, also show their disdain for science and human life with how they mishandle the pandemic. While Australia and New Zealand used focused lockdowns to stop
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Good News, and Bad News
The first vaccine has been delivered to the first Saskatchewanian healthcare worker. Bad news: The first case of wild mink COVID-19 has been confirmed in the world: First case of coronavirus detected in wild mink https://t.co/slwJdT4PkQ — BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) December 14, 2020 It sucks having a stupid Premier.
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Kenney’s Restrictions: A Jekyll and Hyde Story
A couple of months after Mr Kenney lost control of Covid-19, he lost control of his party. Consequently on Dec 13 Albertans find themselves here: our covid testing system is overwhelmed, contact tracing has collapsed, hospitals are at 120% capacity, ICU beds are filling up, the Red Cross and hospital
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Keira Bell Court Decision- Pushing Back the Tide of Anti-Science and Anti-Materialist Trans Ideology.
Keira Bell: The High Court hands down a historic judgment to protect vulnerable children Post author:Transgender Trend Post published:December 1, 2020 Post category:Health Professionals and Organisations / Legislation & Court Rulings Post comments:0 Comments In a landmark judgment that will have repercussions around the world the High Court today ruled
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Anti-Mask Protests in Calgary:Tomfoolery at its Finest
Some of the people in Calgary, Alberta feel that their fundamental rights and freedoms are being taken away from them. (Excerpts from cbc.ca) “Hundreds marched through downtown Calgary on Saturday to protest against mandated masks and other public health measures intended to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the same day
Continue readingNorthern Currents: The Conservatives are hostile towards those we need the most
Share this: While the coronavirus pandemic started spreading across the globe, many governments were caught off guard and had to act quickly. Those countries that elected to put their top scientists in charge and listen to their expertise were more successful in flattening the curve than those that didn’t. Photo:
Continue readingNorthern Currents: The Conservatives are hostile towards those we need the most
Share this: While the coronavirus pandemic started spreading across the globe, many governments were caught off guard and had to act quickly. Those countries that elected to put their top scientists in charge and listen to their expertise were more successful in flattening the curve than those that didn’t. Photo:
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Marc Lee examines the folly of the B.C. Libs’ plan to slash the province’s PST rather than investing in any recovery. And Chris Giles reports that even the IMF is pushing governments to boost public spending, rather than going through still more
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Kenney Stands Up For Doomed Oil
Nowhere in Canada is more cursed than Alberta. It’s the Resource Curse. And Jason Kenney is the leader of the cursed. At the empty Tesla charging station in Fort Macleod. Apparently Albertans aren't heeding NDP lectures to "change their behaviour." pic.twitter.com/euc7vGk2ZH — Jason Kenney (@jkenney) January 4, 2017 Some people
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Scientific American chooses Biden
Sometimes you just have to take a stand. Enough is enough. Throughout its long history, the magazine Scientific American has kept to science and left politics to the politicians. No more. For the upcoming presidential election, for the first time in its history, it has endorsed a candidate. Needless to
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Science, mysticism and enlightenment: or, the use and abuse of language
Will the real new age please stand up? “Castaneda’s popularity made him the subject of a TIME magazine cover story, published on 5th March 1973 (Vol. 101 No. 10). In her article “Don Juan and the Sorcerer’s Apprentice”, TIME correspondent Sandra Burton described Castaneda as “an enigma wrapped in a
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Fixation on Ventilators morphs into Ventilation
“There’s no perfectly ‘safe’ level of ventilation because we don’t actually know what ‘safe’ is, since we don’t know how much exposure leads to transmission,” Angela Rasmussen, a Columbia University virologist,” That is from an article recommended by a virologist studying airborne diseases. The result is predictable: Stay Home to
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Cancer, Keto & Health – Key Facts
Two of many illusions cut through here, in this documentary series, The Answer To Cancer (linked below): 1. Genes cause cancer and other disease. Wrong. That is old science, now disproven by epigenetics. What you eat, do, and think, affects gene expression. That means that in terms of the great
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Children Thrown Away Like Masks
The coronavirus is airborne. Most of our plans are based on it spreading by droplets and unclean hands. #KeepYourChildHome and they'll thank you in later years, even if 2020 and some of 2021 is more difficult. Easier to rebuild social connections than a damaged heart. — Saskboy from #SocialDistancing (@saskboy)
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Science, “Scientism”, Group-Think, & Radical Healing
Like acupuncture, which was pooh-pooh for decades as unscientific bunkum and hocus-pocus, but is now acknowledged by the mainstream conventional Western medical establishment to work – though our crude medical model, which is outdated by a century with the advent of quantum physics, cannot fathom how it works; things
Continue readingNorthern Currents: Wear a Mask! Here’s the science behind mask use.
Share this: Photo: Juan Rojas. Toronto The science around wearing a mask has been, lets say, evolving since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Right wing conspiracy theorists and anti-science folks have been claiming, among other things, that masks simply don’t work. It is true that randomized, controlled trials (RCT’s)
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