We’ve all heard the horror stories about persons with conditions no approved therapy could cure or palliate, who were denied the right to try experimental treatments because… well, because the FDA hadn’t approved them. The excellent movie Dallas Buyers Club, starring Matthew McConaughey, depicts one such case. The logic behind giving the FDA the …
Category: medicine
Dec 19 2023
The CDC stirs up the panic porn once again
“Tripledemic”? Really? I never got the Covid jab, although there was a period of time where I was going to lose my retirement for that. I’m done getting the flu shot. It doesn’t work, and what evidence is out there regarding the flu shot seems to point to the shot actually making things worse. At …
Nov 13 2023
Medicine Today
What need be said about this story? Man Has Wrong Organ Removed By Surgeons Who ‘Couldn’t Find’ His Appendix A Washington state man is suing the University of Washington (UW), after two UW surgeons failed to locate his appendix and instead removed part of his colon – leaving the man with a …
Oct 31 2023
To all the people who think the flu shot actually works….
I have some bad news for you. We randomized 115 children to trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (TIV) or placebo. Over the following 9 months, TIV recipients had an increased risk of virologically-confirmed non-influenza infections (relative risk: 4.40; 95% confidence interval: 1.31-14.8). Being protected against influenza, TIV recipients may lack temporary non-specific immunity that protected against …
Sep 30 2023
And a pox on the flu shot as well
First off, can we all just laugh at this sanctimonious bag of egomaniacal bullshit? Comedian Jimmy Kimmel has canceled his upcoming live Strike Force Three show after contracting Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19). I would say that it couldn’t happen to a more deserving piece of shit, but we all know people who deserve what’s happening to …
Sep 16 2023
How Much Evidence Is Enough?
So you don’t think things are that bad? You think dialogue between Left and Right is still possible? You think when the consequences of their insane policies become sufficiently obvious, our political opponents will come to their senses? No, Gentle Reader. It cannot be, for a simple reason: The Left is now a …
Sep 06 2023
Speaking of warping things….
If any of the Mask Covidiots try to tell you that you have to wear a mask otherwise people will die, please ask them to follow the actual science. We have well over 100 years of proof, scientific proof, that masks do not prevent the spread of an aerosolized virus. The fact that so many …
Sep 04 2023
There Are Days The Satires Write Themselves
They seem to be particularly rife on Mondays. Consider this bit of nonsense: Anti-chippers are the latest group of awful people we now have to worry about They’re paranoid, don’t believe in science, many have white supremacist tendencies, and most importantly they want you to know that microchip implants are super duper …
Feb 27 2023
Further Intrusions Into Medical Privacy
The doctor-patient relationship is deemed legally immune to demands for information from agents of the State. That immunity is considered so important that it extends beyond the death of either party. It covers diagnoses, the results of lab tests, decisions to treat or not to treat, and details of both treatment and results. And …
Feb 10 2023
Day From Hell Alert
The C.S.O. has another procedure scheduled for later this morning. Once again it will involve a long drive, a lot of cutting (for her) and a lot of waiting (for me), a long drive back, and then postoperative care most of which will fall on my shoulders. When we get back there will be …
Jan 20 2023
Dead Giveaways Dept.
Sometimes laughter isn’t just the best medicine, it’s the only medicine: Bringing cake into the office should be seen as harmful to your colleagues in the same way as passive smoking, the chairwoman of Britain’s top food watchdog has said. Professor Susan Jebb, of the Food Standards Agency, speaking personally and not …
Aug 11 2022
“But Then They Might Not Get The Shot!”
Everyone on Earth – certainly, everyone with a minor child – should read this incredible conversation between a distraught father and a pharmacist: Father: Are you a pharmacist? Pharmacist: Yes, how can I help? Father: Yeah. Hey, I’ve got a question. My wife, against my wishes, brought my seven-year-old son a few days ago …
Aug 04 2022
Wanting And Not Getting
(No, this won’t be about sex.) It’s easy to talk fliply about “predilections” and “mindsets” and what they impel their holders to do. I’ve done it many times. Yet it often provides plausible explanations for the behavior common to certain categories of persons. While there are always exceptions and there always will be, …
Aug 03 2022
And Now For Something Completely The Same
(Apologies to the greats of Monty Python.) It is a terrible mistake ever to trust a government agency that has a medical or “public health” ambit. Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy applies to such agencies with lethal force: Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be …
Aug 03 2022
Socialism: A Reminder
Canadian poet and commentator David Solway has the story: A few days ago my wife and I brought her mother, who was suffering from a serious leg infection, to the local ER. We were worried about the possibility of gangrene, which an acquaintance some years back had contracted under similar circumstances, resulting in …
Jul 09 2022
Your Papers, “Please” Part 2
I know most Gentle Readers disdain to watch videos – and the longer the video, the less likely you’ll watch it. I can’t criticize that; I’m that way myself. But I hope you’ll make an exception for this one: If you don’t have the time or the patience, here’s the whole thing in …
Dec 22 2021
Fear Alone Provides Insufficient Test Subjects
What Felix Rex implies is that the forced vax campaigns provided billionaires’ scientists billions of non-consenting human guinea pigs upon which to test potential life-extending technology. They must’ve anticipated that fear alone wouldn’t turn all of humanity into Howard Hughes type germaphobes, hence the gradual forced campaigns were already planned for when fear no longer …
Aug 14 2021
Wedges
Most people who study physics at any level know the Inclined Plane as the first machine of their acquaintance. It’s the simplest machine I know of. It serves admirably to illustrate the fundamental nature and purpose of a machine: to make some human undertaking easier than it would otherwise be. The illustration commonly presented …
Aug 06 2021
Fighting FB Disinfo
At every post that mentions the vaques, FB intrudes the tag shown in the picture below. While it is impossible to reply to the intruders, a rebuttal has been permitted and it gets copied and repeated. So there are ways to fight back, at least until FB decides to penalize every account that repeats it. …
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