A fascinating visit today to the audiologist. Agreeably, she turned out to be a clinician utterly bemused, like me, by the fantastically disproportionate response to Covid. While she was setting up the kit to peer into my lugholes, we had a fine time comparing our favourite Covid absurdities, whether the outdoor wearing of masks, the […]

The suffocating wokeism that now afflicts our national broadcaster has ensured that its conscious efforts to make us laugh are an anaemic embarrassment. Lucky, then, that it can still succeed in making richly comedic content without trying – or even realising that it’s doing so. Tonight Four Corners ran an expose of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. […]

‘Mismatch theory represents the idea that traits that evolved in an organism in one environment can be disadvantageous in a different environment. ‘ I have tried, in earlier posts, here and here, to pin down the reasons for the wholly disproportionate response to Covid by politicians, health professionals and the population at large. Finally, I […]

My tastes in music are more Beethoven than Roll Over, Beethoven, but I believe that at the very pinnacle of any genre there is usually fine musicianship to be found, and for my money Eric Clapton is a good exemplar of this principle. So my interest was piqued when my Youtube feed turned up a […]

I see that Italy is asking the EU to grant its supercar manufacturers, Ferrari, Lamborghini and Maserati an exception to its proposal to require all cars sold after 2035 to produce ‘zero emissions’. All part of the EU’s ‘Fit for 55’ emissions reduction wheeze, apparently. This demonstrates breath-taking naivete on the part of the Italian […]

I’ve been watching Dr John Campbell’s videos on Ivermectin and HCQ trials. The Ivermectin study is a meta-analysis, while the HCQ trial is a Belgian study covering a large number of patients drawn from a large number of hospitals. Both studies come to conclusions broadly favourable to these drugs in connection with Covid treatment, vindicating […]

Introducing the Harrumpf Government’s ‘Covid-19 – Emergency Powers Act’ Oh, come on, we’ve all played it, haven’t we? The ‘if I were dictator for a day’ game, where you get to impose your will on your fellow citizens, send the feckless to the dungeons, and generally set your world to rights, unhindered by the tiresome […]

Nostalgia for a pre-PC world Covid madness continues, and our leaders continue to pursue demonstrably perverse policies, unchecked by an effective parliamentary opposition, unbalanced by a properly sceptical and half-way scientifically literate mainstream media. But it’s time for Harrumpf to direct its grumpiness elsewhere for a change – time for a change of diet. So […]

How does the cost of Covid to NSW compare with traditional health spending by the State? No publicly-funded health system can afford to run without constraints on the price of therapies. Inevitably, some therapies, whether drugs or surgical procedures, are deemed too expensive to be worthy of funding by the taxpayer, and people’s lives are […]

I have written earlier on the phenomenon I call the silly billy effect, where if a large enough majority of a society has been convulsed with fear over something which quickly turns out not to warrant that fear, they will go to considerable lengths to perpetuate the myth to which they subscribed at the outset, […]