Absurdity Observer – January 2026
- Ontario Premier Doug Ford tops the Canadian Taxpayer Federation’s annual “Naughty List” after restoring taxpayer-funded pensions for politicians and approving a 35% pay hike for MPPs—including a $73,000 raise for himself. The CTF says Ford “made Scrooge blush,” while Canadians face rising costs and record debt.
- A leaked FDA memo reportedly confirms that at least 10 children’s deaths were deemed to be solely caused by COVID-19 vaccination, while warning that the true number is likely far higher due to conservative attribution. The memo also flagged myocarditis risk in young boys, criticized regulators for downplaying pediatric harms, and questioned vaccine mandates for healthy kids.
- The “Autism Is Genetic” narrative takes another hit. A new peer-reviewed article reviewing 519 studies—published in Molecular Neurobiology (Varia et al.)—points to chronic inflammation, immune dysregulation, toxic exposures, and metabolic stress as key drivers, but did not find any evidence supporting a genetic cause. The study noted that the over 1 billion USD spent hunting for an “autism gene” has turned up nothing.
- A preprint study using Louisiana Department of Health data (Jablonowski et al.) finds that infants who received all six vaccines recommended at two months of age were 68% more likely to die in their third month of life.
- An Australian court has ordered women’s rights advocate Kirralie Smith to pay $95,000 AUD for “vilifying” two trans-identifying men—simply for referring to them as male. Smith warned the ruling effectively erases women from law and criminalizes truthful speech, arguing that Australians should be alarmed that public policy debate can now be punished to protect feelings rather than facts.
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- Tucker Carlson has been crowned “Antisemite of the Year” by a Jewish civil-rights group simply for talking to the wrong people on camera—while Ms. Rachel, a beloved children’s YouTuber with nearly 14 billion views—found herself nominated for the “offence” of publicly expressing concern about children suffering in Gaza.
- A major scientific paper long used to justify claims that glyphosate—the herbicide found in Roundup—does not cause cancer has now been formally retracted by Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology. The Williams, Kroes, and Munro review, published in 2000, was relied upon by regulators worldwide—including Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA)—to support claims of glyphosate’s safety. The retraction reveals that the paper drew on unpublished industry data and raises serious concerns about conflicts of interest and authorship, weakening the scientific foundation for past regulatory decisions.
- A peer-reviewed paper highlighted by the McCullough Foundation warns that 1–3% of COVID-vaccinated children may develop subclinical myopericarditis—a hidden inflammation of the heart muscle and surrounding tissue that often causes no obvious symptoms. In some cases, children appear outwardly healthy, with the first manifestation being sudden cardiac arrest.
- Medical commentator Dr. John Campbell says thousands of elderly COVID patients in UK care homes may have died not from the virus, but from aggressive use of end-of-life drugs like midazolam and morphine. In April 2020, the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) issued guidance recommending the combined use of these drugs to treat breathlessness in COVID patients nearing end of life—a protocol Campbell says was widely applied across long-term care facilities. The drugs suppress breathing, and Campbell argues their widespread use artificially inflated COVID death counts, helping justify lockdowns and mass vaccination campaigns. “Many would have recovered,” he said, calling it “euthanasia on a huge scale.”
- A newly published, peer-reviewed reanalysis (Oller at al.) of the largest real-world vaccinated vs. unvaccinated cohort ever analyzed in the US, the Henry Ford birth cohort study (Lamerato et al.), found that vaccinated children experienced higher rates of every single chronic condition measured. The reanalysis found that vaccinated children had 549% higher rates of autism-related conditions and 54% higher rates of childhood cancer compared to unvaccinated children. In total, all 22 chronic disease categories were more common in the vaccinated group—some by more than 10×! By age 10, 57% of vaccinated children had developed at least one chronic illness, compared to just 17% of unvaccinated children.
- Canadians who rely on state broadcasters like the CBC and progressive media outlet Al Jazeera view themselves as the most “informed,” according to a new Elections Canada report unearthed by Blacklock’s Reporter.
- Emails reveal government-funded media helped school board spin “family is racist” fallout. Newly released emails show that the Waterloo Region District School Board quietly coordinated with government-funded media to control the narrative after the public learned the school board’s 2023 training session branded the word “family” as harmful to racialized students.
- Ontario school boards are paying American DEI consultants to re-educate Canadian teachers about race. Despite having no shortage of homegrown “equity” experts, boards like Simcoe County and Halton Catholic spent tens of thousands on US-based trainers pushing identity-focused frameworks like “cultural humility” and “de-centring whiteness,” often led by consultants with no background in Ontario education—or classroom teaching at all. Meanwhile, Ontario has already poured ~$500 million into Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programming since 2017, with no measurable improvement in student outcomes.
- New data cited by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms shows self-rated “good” mental health among Canadians dropped sharply during the pandemic—from 64% pre-COVID to 58% during lockdowns. Young adults were hit hardest, with just 51% reporting good mental health. Meanwhile, the share of Canadians rating their mental health as “fair” or “poor” more than doubled, rising from 6% in 2015 to 15% by 2023.
- Schools close as a “tidal wave” of flu sweeps across the UK, even as the government claims the flu is currently circulating at “medium levels” and surveillance data shows flu activity and hospitalizations sitting squarely within typical seasonal ranges.
- A bipartisan group of US senators wants to repeal Section 230—the law that allows the internet to function freely—under the false claim that it will “hold Big Tech accountable.” In reality, scrapping 230 would punish everyone but Big Tech by making websites legally liable for what its users say, forcing mass censorship, comment shutdowns, and algorithmic speech policing just to survive lawsuits. Community forums, independent media, and small platforms would vanish first, while the biggest of tech giants with armies of lawyers would entrench their dominance—ending open online speech as we know it.
- Greece has introduced new rules requiring taxpayers to spend at least 30% of their annual income through electronic payments, claiming the measure will curb tax evasion and boost government revenue. Those who use mainly cash now face financial penalties.
- Campbell’s vice president was secretly recorded admitting that he won’t eat the company’s own food because it contains 3D-printed chicken and bioengineered meat. Campbell’s VP Martin Bally was also recorded as describing the soups as “highly processed food” for “poor people.”
- The Center for Biological Diversity and the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments filed a petition with the Environmental Protection Agency, warning that US Christmas tree farms spray ~270,000 pounds of pesticides every year—including chlorothalonil, chlorpyrifos, simazine, glyphosate, hexazinone, carbaryl, and dimethoate—chemicals linked to hormone disruption, neurological damage, and cancer.
- After years of denial, Ottawa is finally admitting what parents and clinicians have long warned: lockdowns harmed children. Health Canada is now investigating the mental and physical damage caused by school closures, isolation, and restricted outdoor play—acknowledging links to anxiety, depression, and developmental harm. It’s a quiet but overdue reckoning with the cost of pandemic policies that sacrificed kids’ well-being in the name of “safety.”












