Absurdity Observer – May 2025
- Canada’s birth rate is dropping so fast, that we’ve entered a strange new reality: there are now more dogs than children in Canada. According to 2024 data shared by Agriculture Canada, our country is home to over 8.3 million dogs, outnumbering Canadians under age 18 (whose population sits at just under 8 million). This is in addition to an equally staggering statistic revealed by Statistics Canada last year, where, for the first time ever, the number of seniors in Canada (age 65+) officially surpassed the number of children.
- A study of over 53,000 participants by the Cleveland Clinic titled “Effectiveness of the Influenza Vaccine During the 2024-2025 Respiratory Viral Season” (Shrestha et al.) found that “the risk of influenza was significantly higher for the vaccinated compared to the unvaccinated.” In fact, the authors of the study calculated that those who received the 2024-2025 influenza vaccine were actually 27% more likely to get the flu!
- The Court of Appeal says Ontario must pay for surgery for resident who identifies as both trans and non-binary to have both a penis and vagina. Ontario’s top court has ruled the province must cover the cost of an out-of-country, penis-sparing vaginoplasty for a “transgender and non-binary resident” who wishes to have both female and male genitalia. The unique “dual genitalia” surgery is set to take place at a Texas clinic and is expected to cost taxpayers up to $100,000.
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- Real-Life Jurassic Park? Scientists claim to have achieved the world’s first “de-extinction” by bringing back the dire wolf—a species that vanished 10,000 years ago. Using DNA extracted from 72,000 and 13,000-year-old bones, a team at Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based biotech company, edited the genes of grey wolves to supposedly resurrect creatures with ancient traits. Backed by a $10 billion valuation and celebrity investors like Chris Hemsworth, Paris Hilton, and even the CIA, Colossal boldly declares it will “fix extinction” and has announced plans to revive the woolly mammoth, Tasmanian tiger, and dodo next.
- A new study links BC’s safer supply program to more opioid hospitalizations. Examining data from 2016 to 2023, the study published in JAMA (Nguyen et al.) found that BC’s safer supply policies not only did not reduce opioid use, but instead contributed to an estimated 33% rise in opioid hospitalizations.
- New Jersey Hospitals ask Parents to declare newborns’ pronouns and sexual orientation. Forget picking a baby name—New Jersey hospitals want parents to also guess their newborn’s gender identity and sexual orientation. Inspira Health Hospital is asking new parents to label their babies as “Male, Female, Transgender, Gender Queer,” or another category, and even choose if their newborn is “lesbian, gay, straight, bisexual, or unsure” on their “Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Questionnaire.”
- The Canadian Taxpayers Federation recently released bombshell information: Global Affairs Canada dumped $573,500,000 into offshore “gender-responsive” economic development and climate initiatives in South America and Asia. Other wasteful spending in Ottawa includes a sex toy show in Germany and funding discussions on seniors’ sex lives abroad. On average, Trudeau spent 14 times more taxpayer dollars per year on global affairs compared to the past three prime ministers.
- Florida lawmakers are considering a bill (and 10 other states are considering similar bills) that aims to limit pesticide manufacturers’ liability for failure-to-warn claims. Bill HB129, driven by Bayer (Monsanto), which local protestors are calling “the cancer gag act,” would protect pesticide companies from lawsuits if their products’ labels are consistent with EPA guidelines, even if those labels don’t explicitly warn of health risks.
- In addition to the $1.4 billion taxpayer dollars the CBC gets per year, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney pledges to increase CBC’s funding by an additional $150 million if he is elected. Carney even had the audacity to call the CBC “underfunded.”
- Tamara Lich and Chris Barber have been found guilty of mischief for their role in organizing the 2022 Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa. They now await sentencing and could face up to ten years behind bars.
- BioMed Central Pediatrics published a peer-reviewed study indicating that children exposed to fluoridated water in the first 10 years of life had a higher risk for several serious neurodevelopmental disorders that include autism spectrum disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), intellectual disability and specific delays in development (Geier et al.)
- A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém. It aims to ease traffic to the city, which will host more than 50,000 people—including world leaders—at the conference in November.
- McMaster’s inhaled COVID-19 vaccine enters phase two trials. Dubbed the AeroVax study, the trial is backed by $8 million in funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
- “CT-associated cancers could eventually account for 5% of all new cancer diagnoses annually,” a recently published JAMA study suggests (Smith-Bindman et al.) According to the meta-analysis, which warns against the increasing use of CT scans, the per-examination cancer risk was highest in children, and the most frequent projected cancers were thyroid, lung, and breast cancer. Approximately 93 million CT scans are performed on 62 million patients annually in the United States.
- A new peer-reviewed study links the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to long-term changes in genetic structures that can provoke an inflammatory response, and lead to the onset of cancer and autoimmune disorders. The study (Simonis et al.), published in Molecular Systems Biology, concluded by saying their findings may account for “post vaccination inflammatory diseases which occur in a small number of vaccinated individuals.”
- A preprint study published last month (Abue et al.) concludes that “the overall survival of pancreatic cancer patients was shortened in those (COVID) vaccinated three times or more, and the total serum (inflammatory) IgG4 levels increased with the number of vaccinations.”
- The Ontario Superior Court has ruled that the Canadian government cannot be held liable for the death of Sean Hartman, a 17-year-old hockey player who died suddenly after receiving his second Pfizer COVID-19 shot. The Court ruled that the Minister’s obligation was to act for the greater good and claimed that the government did not have a duty to inform the public about all potential risks associated with the shot.