Recently, I wrote about North Hertfordshire Museum’s pathetic attempts to imply the ancient (male, moustachioed) Roman Emperor Elagabalus was actually a transgender woman. If you thought this was ridiculous, there is a museum in the United States which possesses a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton which came out as nonbinary back in 2017, proudly announcing it was now a user of they/them pronouns on Twitter:
The Chicago Field Museum, where the T. rex lives and tweets, justified this lunacy on the spurious grounds that it is quite difficult to determine the sex of old dinosaur specimens (it’s not even certain if such creatures had true external genitalia at all). Therefore, as curators did not know for sure whether the specimen was a boy-lizard or a girl-lizard, they made the insane leap in logic that it was actually a trans one.
Do please further note from the above tweet that, although museum staff profess not to know whether their T. rex is male or female, they have somehow managed to accurately determine its star sign.
A Boy Named SUE?
The Tyrannosaurus Sexless in question goes by two names, depending upon which museum toilets it feels like using to drop a coprolite into on any given day. Behind closed doors, dem bones go by the label Specimen FMNH PR2081, like one of Elon Musk’s children. In public, the skeleton prefers the more flamboyant moniker of SUE (capitalisation is compulsory, for some obscure reason), reflecting how it was first discovered in South Dakota in August 1990 by amateur palaeontologist Sue Hendrikson, and therefore spoken of as if it was female, using traditional she/her pronouns.
So, how did SUE transition from she/her to they/them? The suggestively named U.S. queer website ‘Them’ tells the story in adulatory detail, acclaiming SUE as “a Nonbinary [sic] icon”. In our infantile, dumbed-down age, even inanimate museum exhibits now have to ‘engage’ with the general public, so SUE was given her own Twitter account, operated by an in-house electronic ventriloquist. One female fan jokily tweeted that the dinosaur was her “girlfriend”, leading SUE’s operator to reply: “Um, science is still out on that ‘girl’ title… but I’m still your friend.” Another follower then asked SUE what its pronouns were, leading the fossil to reply that, naturally, it used impeccably right-on gender-neutral ones.
A few months later, SUE was being moved to another exhibition space, which online activists realised meant it would need all its labels rewritten. Queer lobbyists contacted the museum demanding the T. rex now adopt gender-neutral pronouns permanently on the grounds that “Misgendering SUE didn’t just misrepresent the dinosaur, it risked invalidating the credibility SUE’s pronouns had given to nonbinary individuals.”
One such nonbinary individual e-mailed (or e-femailed, we shouldn’t just automatically presume) the museum to wail needily that its signs publicly referring to a dinosaur as they/them in print “gives me another piece of data that I can hold up to” all those cruel sceptics who stubbornly refuse to accept men can miraculously become women. What, precisely, is this individual’s definition of the word “data” here?
Exhibit Gay
External activists were pushing at an open door, as internal activists on the museum’s own staff quickly became “excited”, asking management to let them begin showily stating their own pronouns in their official documents too, just like SUE. From hereon in, SUE would become “an ambassador for science”, widening participation in the sphere for all, not just privileged ‘cishetero’ scum. For Kate Golembiewski, the museum’s chief PR führer, “Science is for everyone. If [using gender-neutral pronouns] makes one person more comfortable in our museum… then it’s worth it.”
But what about all those people whom it makes feel uncomfortable? According to Katie Slivovsky, founder of CAMP (Chicago Alliance for Museums with Pride), who held a workshop at the museum informing recalcitrant staff members why it was now suddenly compulsory to refer to a dead dinosaur as if it was a drag queen:
At the Children’s Museum [where Katie also works] we handle a complaint about our rainbow sign or all-gender bathroom sign the same way we handle somebody who doesn’t like that they can’t bring a balloon into the museum… There’s no need for debate or agreement or disagreement by any staff. [Gender-neutral pronouns are] just museum policy. We want everyone to feel welcome here.
Yes. If by “everyone”, you actually mean “only a small proportion of politically motivated malcontents and mentally ill people”. All those much larger number of normal individuals who don’t agree that a T. rex can be trans can just leave immediately and dig up their own fossils to stare at. That’s ‘inclusivity’ for you – an inverted synonym for the systematic exclusion of the sane majority.
Camp Cretaceous
SUE’s case is no aberrant one-off, there now being an entire movement afoot to ‘queer’ palaeontology. There is even some research out there suggesting the dinosaurs originally became extinct not due to giant meteorite impact or their gradual evolution into bird-life, but from an early variant of the AIDS virus.
Disappointingly, if you look at the original scientific papers, this is not really what actual researchers into prehistoric retroviruses are claiming, as such deadly bugs only appear to infect mammals. Yet this hasn’t stopped other commentators, like HIVPlusMag (there’s a publication I hope never to subscribe to), from suggesting that “it’s more fun to imagine that it [AIDS] caused the demise of the dinosaurs” because, somehow, this idea will “lead to innovative new research” which will help cure it amongst homosexual humans.
Just as self-obsessed is U.S. social media activist ‘Fossil Daddy’ (not his real name), who argues palaeontology can be legitimately transformed into an entire new pseudo-discipline named “gay-leontology”, a pun which only works if you say the real word using its American pronunciation (i.e., pay-leontology).
Fossil Daddy poses topless whilst talking evolution online, pushing a “unique blend of science and queerness” via his “cheeky and informative videos”. These propagate the message that the field as a whole is “dominated by old white men”, who are probably also raging homophobes. By being outrageously gay in the close proximity of trilobites online, Fossil Daddy hopes to declare to these stale, pale, cishetero paleo-patriarchs that “We exist. We’re going to take over the space someday,” which sounds uncomfortably settler-colonialist to me. Even worse, “We’re going to turn palaeontology into gay-leontology.”
Meaning what, exactly? Meaning “being visibly queer, refusing to stay quiet and insisting on taking up space”. In other words, acting like a complete narcissist. Fossil Daddy “traces his love of fossils” back to Nintendo’s original 1998 Game Boy Pokémon Red/Blue games, which featured a rare fossilised Pokémon named Omanyte, based on genuine non-eight-bit fossils called ammonites. As Poké-players have to capture said critters in special spheres named PokéBalls, today Fossil Daddy pays tribute to his childhood obsession by selling fans some rather alarming-sounding products named ‘Daddy’s Balls’, which apparently “contain artifacts from his fossil hunts”, which has to be the strangest euphemism I have ever heard.
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary – To All Known Historical Fact
Not only are contemporary bone-diggers evolving rapidly into full-blown gay-leontologists – so are long-dead historical ones. Enter Mary Anning (1799-1847), early female fossil-hunter and discoverer of the 200 million-year-old fish-like marine reptile Ichthyosaurus, whose very name means ‘fish-lizard’, a highly nonbinary concept in itself. Much more significant than her boring old discoveries, however, is the newly unearthed ‘fact’ she was a lesbian – hooray!
Mary never married. Obviously, this meant she must actually have been in a secret girl-on-girl relationship with her good friend and fellow fossil-fondler Charlotte Murchison. That, at least, was the theory of the 2020 film Ammonite, starring Kate Winslet as Mary and with a probable script by Fossil Daddy. You can tell this because at one point, after mating with Charlotte in a sheltered cave somewhere on the Jurassic Coast, Mary surprisingly discovers a fossilised Bulbasaur femur.
Even more anachronistic, however, is the film’s depiction of her alleged sapphic leanings – a total invention which annoyed modern-day descendants of Mary’s wider family, such as her distant niece Barbara Anning, who complained as follows:
I do not believe that there is any evidence to back up portraying her as a gay woman. Do the filmmakers have to resort to using unconfirmed aspects to somebody’s sexuality to make an already remarkable story sensational? This adds nothing to her story.
Ammonite’s “working class and queer” director Francis Lee (who self-identifies as a former Manchester City footballer) disagreed, asking why:
Or, to put it another way, “Why can’t I just make it all up?” I look forward to seeing Mr. Lee’s follow-up sexually revisionist masterpiece, a remake of Wilde in which Oscar turns out to be as straight as a spirit-level.
Queens of the Stone Age
In a curious assessment of the case for Exeter University’s OutAndAboutExeter project, aimed at pointlessly ‘queering the curriculum’ with your tax money, recent English Literature graduate Emma Wallace drew an exceedingly laboured parallel between Lee’s ahistorical fabulism and the very process of palaeontology itself:
Why is it, Lee asks, that we view absence of evidence for any sexuality as confirmation of Mary Anning’s heterosexuality? … The fossils that Mary discovered over the course of her life lay physically and metaphorically beneath the surface; they needed to be literally dug up and examined in order to be understood. In light of how queer lives are often buried or erased over the course of history… we must think beyond conventional ideas about the past and open our minds to what lies hidden beneath the surface. To queer the past is not to compromise its veracity, but to recognise that the past is a shifting, dynamic variable which can continue to yield revelations and thereby influence the present.
Furthermore, argues Emma, in very pink prose indeed:
Within the film itself… the process of physically digging up silt and dirt for these fossilised remains ultimately parallels Mary and Charlotte’s attempts to interrogate their own sexual desire; the unearthing of the literal ammonite precipitating the more metaphoric discovery of their love for one another. Geology and palaeontology, in other words, becomes a metaphor for their queerness… Queer love, the film proposes, is as ancient and worthy of excavation – or engagement and memorialisation – as the fossils that Mary discovers.
Well, why don’t we just dig Mary herself up, shove her bones into a display cabinet in the Natural Made-Up-History Museum, and give the corpse its own twee little Twitter account, complete with all the correct approved neo-pronouns?
Professor Challengers
There is a strange, forgotten historical parallel for spying blatant ahistorical falsehoods in fossils. The Lügensteine, or ‘Lying Stones’, of Professor Johann Beringer (1667-1740) were a series of fossils far too good to be true found around the German university-town of Würzburg in 1725 – the reason being they were all fakes. Beringer was not a believer in early proto-evolutionary ideas, dismissing the notion fossils were the preserved remains of extinct prehistoric organisms. Consequently, the cruel hoaxers carved some of their creations with the name of God signed proudly in Hebrew, as though they were the Deity’s early practice creatures from the first days of Creation.
Publishing a book proudly announcing his findings, Beringer’s reputation was soon shattered once it became clear the religiously convenient fossils were all invented. This fact should have been abundantly apparent – some depicted ‘fossilised’ comets, bees pollinating flowers or spiders sitting plumply on their webs, whilst others contained tell-tale chisel-marks.
However, Professor Beringer allowed his own pre-existing belief-systems (in this case religious, not woke ones) to colour his vision. His comically deluded explanation was simply that the give-away marks were the result not of human chisels, but of God’s:
The figures… are so exactly fitted to the dimensions of the stones, that one would swear that they are the work of a very meticulous sculptor… [and they] seem to bear unmistakable indications of the [Divine] sculptor’s knife.
Some of the fake fossils were of fauna that had supposedly been frozen forever in time during the act of carnal union – particularly common were carvings of toads playing leapfrog onto one another’s backs (go here and gawp open-mouthed like Kermit at figure seven). I bet if certain modern-day queer Professor Beringers amongst the gay-leontology crowd were shown such appealingly sexualised images of carved dinosaurs who died whilst supposedly hard at it with members of the same sex they’d fall for it every bit as much as their unwitting 18th-century ancestor once did.
Whilst specific moral fads and fashions may shift dramatically down the centuries, the sad underlying fact of mankind’s capacity for willing self-deception never does evolve very much, it would seem.
Steven Tucker is a journalist and the author of over 10 books, the latest being Hitler’s and Stalin’s Misuse of Science: When Science Fiction Was Turned Into Science Fact by the Nazis and the Soviets, which is out now.
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Wasn’t moderna 3x the dose?!?
It’s high time people were arrested.
The reports are beginning to penetrate the mainstream, and they won’t stop coming. There have been too many victims.
yes, 100mcg vs 30mcg for Pfizer.
Two years too late – Fauci is obviously under the “protection” of “powerful friends” and Johnson always has Carrie as his alibi !
Has Whitty got a new job to go with his Knighthood for “Services Rendered”?
Whitty will probably end up at the WHO – he’s always been a Billy Gates man.
How much longer can these f*****s pushing the jab keep their heads up their arses? Time to take some action against anybody saying they are ‘safe and effective.’ Safe and effective, my arse.
The City of Wolverhampton Council says: “The COVID-19 vaccine is safe, effective and approved. It gives you the best protection against the virus and is saving lives.”
Corona ad seem to be gone from Reading. At least, I don’t remember seeing one for the last couple of days.
Obviously a Council subjected to ‘Virologist Entryism’!
They’re just functionaries repeating ad nauseam what the official Government policy is. There will have been close to zero due diligence done in any local councils on Covid.
The jab kills….. who knew
What I meant was ‘WHO knew’
It doesn’t seem to kill young people very well – Billy Gates must be riling at the inefficiency of his first eugenics exercise!
I’m beginning to get the feeling from reading the latest posts, that we are starting to go around in circles. I always believed that covid-19 was plucked out of thin air, the only ingredients being timing, location, a convenient test and a mRNA vaccine. Everything thereafter relied entirely on governments around the world panicking. Well here we are 2+ years on, a frightened, enfeebled and medicated nation of the compliant, present company excepted. Someone else can finish off
Well here we are 2+ years on, a frightened, enfeebled and medicated world of the compliant, present company excepted.
FTFY
I am far more cynical than you. I am of the belief that the PTB know full well that each ‘crisis’ they create will be exposed as fraud fairly quickly, so they have a long list for ‘bait and switch’ purposes. War in Ukraine, inflation, climate heating, food scare, they’ve got them lined up one after another. I’ve seen through every single one of them already, but most people haven’t. They’re too busy paying for the mortgage and getting their children to sports practice and the like….
The tin foil hat wearer in me has wondered for some time whether the script will ultimately be flipped on these vaccines. There seems to be a concerted effort to sink the West. What better way to do that than to inject ~80% of the population with a toxic substance and then gradually reveal the harm. Think of the lawsuits. Lockdowns, vaccines and Russia sanctions have one thing in common – financial self-immolation. I wonder why.
A part of me thinks the whole Shanghai narrative is to give the West one last push towards mRNA. I heard people saying the reason China was in such a bad way was because they had inferior non mRNA vaccines.
There’s a concerted effort (actually, rather a distributed effort) of every clown with a chip on his shoulder to frame some debate as Either my way or the apocalypse.
There was a report from NZ saying just that. The person writing the article had spoken to a member of the “elite” who revealed to them that the plan was for the population of the west to overthrow their governments once they realised what had been done to them. Then one world government would take over.
Sorry link lost.
I can’t actually see riots or wars speeding up moves towards world government. It’s during the relative peace of the past 30 years that it’s made particularly rapid progress. See the 2018 book ‘Giants: the Global Power Elite’ by Prof. Peter Phillips.
I also highly recommend James Kunstler’s 2020 book ‘Living in the Long Emergency’. It’s the sequel to his 2005 book ‘The Long Emergency’. It went to press late 2019 so by coincidence it excludes COVID. This is useful, because you can see how the world post-peak oil faced enormous financial / economic problems and how COVID fitted in as a convenient story. to hide what was really being done, i.e. organising a reset of the currency.
I can’t see them doing that, isn’t it more likely they want digital control so we can’t overthrow them.
I don’t know, the globalists don’t want national governments. A tsunami of litigation and near-civil war could easily lead to outside (globalist UN) intervention being ‘needed’.
If 5 million people march on Westminster with the sole intention of murdering 500 MPs, digital control won’t stop them.
It’s nothing to do with China. The rich of the West have their money invested safely all over the place, far away from ‘Western’ nations. They buy land in South America, the Caribbean, Europe (if they are American). They will have their futures safeguarded even if there is war and revolution in the lower 48. They’ve never been patriots, they just use patriotism to keep the people dupable. The European ‘elites’ are just the same.
We need our MPs to make EUAs illegal.
Giving pharmaceutical companies immunity from prosecution during a rushed rollout of novel drugs should have been a red flag to anyone – certainly to our MPs.
Only if they had a modicum of integrity and intellect.
Sadly, they have neither.
Democracy red in tooth and claw. Lol.
Especially when there’s fraud!
It has all the hallmarks of a conspiracy against public health!
The. Ministry of Truth deals in propaganda.
The Ministry of Love deals in torture.
The Ministry of Plenty deals in shortages.
The Ministry of Public Health deals in…
The Ministry of Public Health deals in unprotected sex with syphilis sufferers….
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while; an interview with the US’s most cancelled man:
Exclusive Interview: Robert Kennedy Jr. Destroys Big Pharma, Fauci & Pro-Vaccine Movement — Yandex video search
Actually, EUAs used properly are an essential part of a proper response to disease crises. The problem is not an EUA per se, it is the entirely corrupt, dysfunctional, criminal classes in the pharmaceutical industry, in the money world, in Westminster and the media that makes it problematic.
But let’s be clear: if I had been PM, with a PhD and seven years virological postdoctoral experience, allied to working in the commerical biopharma space for a while, had prevented EUAs for Covid vaccines, if I had allowed controlled trialling of ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, budesonide etc etc, you can be sure that I would have been bumped off by Gates et al.
What we need is to kick Gates, Soros and all their organisations out of the UK, out of Europe, out of everywhere. We need to withdraw all recognition of the WHO so long as Gates is an investor. We will not allow Gates to have any contact with the Department of Health, nor will he have any influence on UK health policy. Cambridge University and all other UK universities will be told that accepting Gates money is incompatible with receiving a single penny of UK public money and that the Gates Scholarship programme must be thrown out due to the evil of its benefactor.
Pfizer’s exclusivity deal with Israel probably doesn’t seem like such great idea to their shareholders after all in hindsight. But thank you, Pfizer, for allowing us to pinpoint exactly how much harm YOUR product caused in YOUR own ‘personal lab.’
What’s important is we realise the Everdemic is not over, never will be, and we should get our fourth dose – and schedule the fifth – and particularly get the young doses up as it’s the best way to protect them.
On what scientific basis can you say that.
I’m hoping that this is sarcasm.
If I were working in the Cabinet Office I would be writing:
“Nothing to see here – move along. Oh. look! There’s a squirrel…”
and then going out to buy booze for the next party…
That is exactly what the Government , the Judiciary, the MHRA , 80 % of MPs and the Police have been doinhg for two years – isn’t this just a bit suspicious?
If you were working in the Cabinet office, you would have to put up with Mark Sedwill coming to poke his oar in, thinking that the current incumbent must fall into line with his MI6 and Goldman Sachs schemata…
just reading about Troponins. A way to test for heart stress. Apparently jabs increased levels by insane multiples. Just to put it into context, a normal level of troponin in the body is <0.05. 1-4 is heart attack risk. Jab takes level to 35
The law of unintended (or intended) consequences!
I remember Hugh Pym (PPE Oxford), the BBC’s ‘health editor’ saying on the today programme after Novak Djokovic’s interview, “What more evidence does he want?”. Perhaps, Hugh should be sent this and asked to reconsider his question.
What more evidence do we want to demand that Hugh Pym be sacked without a reference?
Next door neighbour. Found dead from heart attack a week back. 60ish, a bit overweight but normal for his age.
Husband of Covidian acquiantance. Died in his sleep. Heart attack. c45, a bit overweight but normal for his age.
One of my best friends. c 45. Pericarditis after being boosted. In hospital for a week. Better now.
Many people (most) rationalise these events as things that ‘just happens to men of a certain age’. What they are overlooking is that these are sufficiently rare such that if a factor comes along that causes more of these events, then the likelihood that it was the cause is very high. So yes, I’m happy saying that it was the vaxx that did it (most likely).
Out of the blue today my daughter said something along the lines of ‘I want to go and get my vaccine in ABC town. Becky at school said that they give out biscuits once you’ve had it’. This was only about 15 minutes after I found out about one of these events so I almost blew my top.
I don’t think overweight people do get more heart attacks. Dr Malcolm Kendrick has looked into this. There’s a phenomenan called the obesity paradox. People who are naturally thin can also suffer diabetes and cardiovascular problems.
You get tea and biscuits after you donate blood. That’s a more socially useful activity.
Shops also SELL biscuits.
The cardio vascular damage of a single packet of high fructose biscuits will be less than a jab though.
https://realclimatescience.com/2022/04/twitter-doubling-down-on-their-evil/
See what happens when you put things like this on twitter
I just had to visit an acquaintance of a friend, to collect something he had spare and was giving away. The first thing he said as I entered the house was: ‘You’re OK, we’re all vaccinated’. I said something to the effect that I couldn’t care less about COVID. My only worry was his two large dogs which were jumping madly up and down.
He gradually got the message that I wasn’t that keen on dogs but seemed to think I was
1 irrational to be worried about dogs almost the size of a human
2 irrational not to be worried about COVID.
Had the dogs been vaccinated though?
Did anyone notice when they mentioned Hancock flooding care homes with asymptomatic patents they are perpetuating the asymptomatic myth.
Has it turned out to be a myth? Have you got a good link for that, please?
You don’t need a link. You know it. Can you give someone a cold when you don’t have a cold?
In Lala Covid Lieland anything is possible – except the vax protecting you from the virus.
It has never been demonstrated to exist since Whitty invented it . Or do you have evidence to the contrary?
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/a-few-new-papers-are-brewing?s=r
Jessica Rose on the sudden death category in VAERS.
Safe to say, sudden death is happening and being reported at rates higher than ever before (big surprise) as per VAERS, and although it is being reported for individuals ages 50+ with more prevalence, it is not limited to a specific age group.
Check out the graph for the percentage of cases of sudden death by the days post vaccine. phew!
“Killer Jab”? Exactly how much more evidence is needed?
Front page news? BBC lead story ? No …pushed aside .
Evil stalks the Land of Lies !
its Also very weird how hepatitis is mysteriously on the rise among youngsters.
Israel should remember that that one resurrection on their turf has an asterisk beside it.
So there were fifty excess deaths in 3 months in a population of 3-4 million (depending how the demographics of a population of 8.9m people works out)?
It does seem a bit of a waste of money to spend multiple millions vaccinating a healthy population just to kill 50 of them. It’s no good health-wise and pretty useless as a eugenics exercise too!
Why not just spend the money handing out free condoms instead?!
It’s where the money goes that’s the point. Pfizer etc
Oh it is much worse than this. Simply read the 1,250,000 adverse event reports in the USA and 22,000 deaths post vaxx cdc VAERS reports. Adverse events range from transverse myelitis, thrombocytopenia, strokes, atrial fibrillation,heart attacks, Bell’s palsy, guillian barre, reactivation of dormant viruses such as shingles, serious lung infections, blindness, tinnitus, serious skin eruptions, miscarriages, abnormal menstrual bleeding, reoccurrence of cancers, including pancreatic, ovarian, lung, breast, unsteadiness, vertigo and many more. Did you know Pfizer just released in their data dump, six pages of adverse events from their trial data. More people died in the trial arm than the control group. If you took these vaccines, you should be concerned.