Shelly Wismath

Breaking: men discover for the 800th time before they forget again that actually girls & women don’t usually lie about sexual assault.

Stop using the language of the rapist.

It is not sex with children, it is rape of children.
It is not underage girls, it is children.
It is not sex trafficking, it is rape trafficking.

There is talk that Schumer is a closer confidant of Trump than he admits. This kind of rumor is almost inevitable, but true or not, he has to go. The Democrats have lots of good people who could replace him. If he was any kind of man, he would quit for the good of the party and the country.

How to Escape the Fake: Making Good Policy in the Age of Misinformation - IRPP Join us for an evening of dialogue and networking with Canada’s dynamic public policy community.   This year’s IRPP fall lecture will feature Canadian author and scholar Timothy Caulfield, one of Nort...

Ottawa! Next week! 👇

This is a critical time. A knowledge crisis. How did we get here & what can we do?

How to Escape the Fake: Making Good Policy in the Age of Misinformation : irpp.org/irpp-event/f... via @irpp.org @cmadocs.bsky.social

Hope to see there!

Communicating why a 50 year mortgage costs more, overall, than a 30 year mortgage should not be a hard task.

The problem is the average American is both functionally illiterate and innumerate, as a deliberate result of decades of the policies made by the very people pushing for 50 year mortgages.

I’m guessing @democrats.senate.gov think our anger at their utter failure and betrayal will subside in a news cycle or two and calls for new leadership and primary opponents will die off. They continue to underestimate voters just like they think we’re stupid enough to believe this was 8 “rogues.”

Just read a passage in a book that describes elderly people as time machines: able to recall the past whilst being reminders to younger people of the future that awaits them. I think that’s a pretty magical understanding of age.

Just spoke to journalist about Canada losing its measles elimination status. A frustrating day for public health. I have a lot of thoughts about this that I will put in writing soon.

It’s not that we didn’t want the shutdown to end, it’s the fact that millions of people suffered throughout this shutdown and it was for nothing. That’s the most upsetting part.

if democrats want to retain any amount of integrity they need to immediately vote out chuck schumer as party minority leader

Trump‘s brilliant plan of 50 year mortgages means that after your first 20 years making huge interest payments to a bank you will have paid down almost none of the principal and they will still own the house you are living in with 30 years to go. A scam from a career con man.

And I'll say it again:

‪If we had believed children and women, none of this would be happening.

He'd be in jail, and she'd be President.

You know who's flights aren't getting canceled?

Rich folks with private planes

They could stop half of the private planes and not have to eliminate any commercial flights

Once again, it's us vs them

mRNA covid vaccines may “turbo charge” cancer immunotherapy, research suggests Patients with cancer who received a covid mRNA vaccine within 100 days of beginning immunotherapy treatment gained significant benefit in terms of survival and disease progression, new research sugges...

NO "turbo cancer" associated with nRNA vaccines, but possible "turbo" benefits?

mRNA covid vaccines may “turbo charge” cancer immunotherapy, research suggests bmj.com/content/391/...

Patients with mRNA vaccine "... gained significant benefit in terms of survival & disease progression..."

Let this sink in. The President of the United States is now appealing a court order forcing him to feed starving children.

Cutting flights because of the govt shutdown is a stunt, plain and simple

idk who needs to hear this but the President of the United States of America is APPEALING a judges order forcing him to fully fund SNAP.
Yes — DJT is appealing a ruling telling him to NOT starve his own people. Let that simmer.

Interview With a Five Year Old Raywat / blog, me / 0 comment

My latest post:

"Interview With a Five Year Old"

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Reading a recently published nonfiction book and once again I’m mildly appalled at how poorly copy edited most books are these days.

Study compares heart risks of COVID-19 infection and vaccination, and the results may surprise you The risk of children developing rare but serious heart complications is higher after a COVID-19 infection than after vaccination, according to a new study.

Buried in the article:
“Over a period of six months, researchers estimate that COVID-19 infections led to 2.24 extra cases of myocarditis or pericarditis per 100,000 children, while vaccinations led to 0.85 extra cases per 100,000.”

The scare tactic of the headline is what’s wrong with media today

For those Canadian researchers following the "all your (data)base are belong to us" moves of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Research:

My PhD is SSHRC-funded, so I asked SSHRC directly about disclosure of info.

So far, they have only provided the committee w/ public information.

The irony is that a century ago, the exact same kind of religious bigotry that Cuomo’s embraced down the stretch — we can’t elect someone from that faith or they’ll impose it on all of us! — was aimed squarely at Catholics like Cuomo.

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

I don't think people outside of NYC fully see how incredibly RACIST Cuomo's campaign has been. It rivals any of the most racist campaigns of the 20th century. Just racism all the way down.

Accurate.

This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

"After just a few years, the decline is visible. A few more [years], and large parts of the population may be too impaired to function effectively, leaving us without the collective ability to respond." #longCOVID via @storiedselves.bsky.social in @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Rockies Trip! In the first week of October we went to the Rockies to celebrate (a few days belatedly) our 23rd anniversary. We stayed in Jasper, which had been ravaged by a w

Last week's blog post was about our trip to the Rockies in early October. Lots of great pics! watershednotes.ca/2025/10/29/r...

Lovely photos - looks like a hard but satisfying trip. And happy anniversary!