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Do We Believe This S***?

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(Hint: I don’t!)

Guess what state leads America in mental health.

Ooh, got it already! Massachusetts, of course (https://mhanational.org/news/mha-releases-2024-state-of-mental-health-in-america-report/). I mean, talk about barking obvious…

A report by (heh-heh) Mental Health America (2024 findings, just released) declares Massachusetts the sanest of the sane, never mind those pesky witch trials, the ONLY state to back the George McGovern presidential candidacy, Lizzie Borden, and all the rest of it that makes a blue state blue.

Somehow in this report, all the states rated as wack jobs were “red” states and all the with-it states were “blue.” Funny how that works. “Nope, precious little substance abuse or emotional illness here!” But in the words of the study, “The United States is indeed in a mental health crisis.” And we’d better all climb on board and start “closing the mental health equity gap.” [Screams: No, no, no! Not the equity gap!]

(ASIDE: I’ve been to Boston. They’re all crazy up there.)

Boy, is there phony “science” floating around out there!

Let’s go back to the hymns, shall we?

Dowsing for Dinosaurs!

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Dowsing: The Pseudoscience of Water Witching | Live Science

You can dowse for water, oil, or buried treasure. So why not dowse for dinosaurs?

2,012 Digging Dinosaur Bones Images, Stock Photos, 3D objects, & Vectors | Shutterstock

See all the nice dinosaur fossils down there in the ground? But how would you know where to dig without a dowser? You can’t just start digging in any old place and hope you find a fossil. Believe me, I’ve tried that. It didn’t work when I was seven years old and it won’t work now.

Dowsing has been sneered at as “pseudo-science,” but it’s every bit as credible, reliable, and respectable as “climate science” and “gender studies.” In fact, probably much more so. And cheaper, too.

But of course They have never given dowsers a chance to dig up dinosaurs. I wonder if they’d give transgender dowsers a try. It would be “hate” if they didn’t.

 

‘Science’ Sez… You’re a Fascist!

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Fascist Italy: 44 Harrowing Photos Of Life Under Mussolini

If you’re not a liberal, you must be a fascist!

In 1993, when Otto Scott wrote this article for Chalcedon, liberals were still looking for “scientific” reasons to brand as a Nazi anyone who disagreed with them. And “Science” was only too willing to provide them.

https://chalcedon.edu/magazine/the-adorno-scale

“The Adorno Scale,” invented in the early 1950s, was supposed to be a “scientific” means of measuring just how far gone in fascism are whatever people you don’t like. Nowadays, of course, they don’t bother: “Systemic Racism,” “White Privilege” and all that simply state you’re automatically guilty if you’re white. They don’t need any “science” to condemn you. Even leftism has been dumbed down.

Dr. Adorno toyed with the idea of including “hostility to modern art” among his list of “fascist” traits, but dropped it when he convinced himself that the typical American slob had never seen any modern art. You don’t dig Jackson Pollock? Heil, Hitler!

Twenty-seven years later, “Settled Science” is still making mischief, still trying to rule the world, still trying to turn ordinary people into livestock. We don’t hear much of the Adorno Scale anymore, but you can be sure its legacy lives on at every looniversity in the Western world.

 

‘What Makes New Yorkers Live Longer?’ (2012)

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He makes you live longer!

Oh, boy–pseudo-science! Oh, boy–faulty logic! Puddem togedda and waddaya got? Something worth a little less than bibbity-bobbity-boo.

What Makes New Yorkers Live Longer?

What you got, in 2012, was New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ban-everything policy being credited with giving New Yorkers longer life spans. Read this carefully and see how many examples of cockeyed thinking you can find.

Then see if you can think of any reason to believe in “science” anymore.

‘Today’s Howler–Sun-Gazing’ (2015)

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You don’t expect complete twaddle from “Natural News,” but there’s no other way to describe this.

Today’s Howler–Sun-Gazing

Make a habit of staring directly at the sun, and by and by you’ll be able to live without food!

As long as you don’t need your eyes for anything, go ahead, try it.

Once you’ve gone blind, you can stare at the sun all you want.

Curses, Foiled Again! No Sea Level Rise for New York, Washington D.C.

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Don’t you hate it when you make scary, melodramatic scientific predictions, and wait for the big bucks to come rolling in–and then your prognostications turn out to be totally, hopelessly wrong?

How many “climate scientists” have sought to wow their audiences with claims like “New York gonna be the new Atlantis! Only the Government can save us”? The Government advised by ourselves, of course.

Now we find that since 2009, sea levels at New York City and Washington, D.C.–which were supposed to go up, up, up because we stubbornly refuse to live like medieval peasants–have, in fact… gone down ( https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/05/29/the-sea-levels-are-now-reducing-in-the-hotspots-of-acceleration-of-washington-and-new-york/ ). And of course, if you look at the graphs over time, you can easily see that sea levels are always fluctuating–subject as they are to countless influences, some of them so subtle that we have yet to detect them.

So again it’s boo-hoo to the Global Warming crew: take a long walk off a short pier, and hope there’s still water under it. I would say “pray” instead of hope, but I have no idea what you guys pray to, and probably don’t want to know.