Tony Hall, former San Francisco county supervisor, on the city’s decline…

https://youtu.be/DCfHCoBIsew

Keep in mind this guy was an elected official for many years and part of the political machine that created the decline. Also, he is obviously a liberal. He can no longer pretend decades of bad decisions have had a positive outcome.

Though I think he has an accurate picture of the homelessness problem, his methods to treat the problem are hopelessly confused, and homelessness is only part of the problem.

Woke stupidity is involved in medical decisions in the U.S…

Why Europe and America are going in opposite directions on youth transgender medicine

“…A growing number of countries, including some of the most progressive in Europe, are rejecting the U.S. “gender-affirming” model of care for transgender-identified youth. These countries have adopted a far more restrictive and cautious approach, one that prioritizes psychotherapy and reserves hormonal interventions for extreme cases.

In stark contrast to groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which urges clinicians to “affirm” their patient’s identity irrespective of circumstance and regards alternatives to an affirm-early/affirm-only approach “conversion therapy,” European health authorities are recommending exploratory therapy to discern why teens are rejecting their bodies and whether less invasive treatments may help.

If implemented in American clinics, the European approach would effectively deny puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to most adolescents who are receiving these drugs today. Unlike in the U.S., in Europe surgeries are generally off the table before adulthood.

Why are more countries turning their backs on what American medical associations, most Democrats and the American Civil Liberties Union call “medically necessary” and “life-saving” care? The answer is that Europeans are following principles of evidence-based medicine (EBM), while Americans are not.

A bedrock principle of EBM is that medical recommendations should be grounded in the best available research. EBM recognizes a hierarchy of information.

The expert opinion of doctors, for example, even when based on extensive clinical experience, furnishes the lowest quality — meaning, least reliable — information. Slightly higher on the information pyramid are observational studies. Systematic reviews of evidence, meanwhile, furnish the highest quality evidence. They follow a rigorously developed, reproducible methodology. They do not cherry-pick studies with convenient results, but instead consider all the available research…”

Covid coverup. Liars must be held to account.

Giroir: NIH Is ‘to Blame’ for COVID for Funding Risky Research, Scientific Community Doesn’t Want to Accept Blame for Pandemic

“…former HHS Assistant Secretary Adm. Brett Giroir stated that he believes a lab leak is the most likely origin for COVID, but the scientific community does “not want to take the blame for something like this happening.” And that the NIH and the U.S. are also partially to blame for COVID “because we funded the research to begin with.”…”

Turley on Garland malfeasance…

Related:

NYT quietly confirms the allegation that Merrick Garland lied to Congress about Hunter

“…But these latest allegations are far more serious: they include perjury on the part of the Attorney General, and lying to Congress on the part of Weiss. If true, both men are theoretically in legal jeopardy, and any fig leaf that the case wasn’t rigged–we all know it was, but couldn’t prove it–flies off into the winds of a hurricane. Well, according to the NYT, they have confirmed at least one of the allegations made by the whistleblower: that Weiss enquired about charging Biden in California on charges related to crimes he committed there (even federal crimes are charged in the jurisdiction in which they took place) and he was denied permission to do so…”

Related:

IRS Whistleblower: My Contemporaneous Documentation Contradicts Garland, Weiss on Hunter Case

DeSantis replaces Trump as worst Hitler ever…

Doug Santo