Althouse: Horse hypocrisy.

May 5, 2022

Horse hypocrisy.

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59 comments:

Bob Boyd said...: Ulcers are more common in Type A horses.; 5/5/22, 8:20 AM
Sebastian said...: "Horse hypocrisy."

Prog science and medicine, like prog ethics, are situational.; 5/5/22, 8:22 AM
Aggie said...: Progressive hypocrisy, now isn't that really something. How novel. We all know there are really effective ways to counter such outrageous arrogance, and we're all too polite to use them.; 5/5/22, 8:29 AM
phantommut said...: This makes me so much more comfortable with the concept of a governmental Disinformation Governance Board.; 5/5/22, 8:39 AM
Enigma said...: @Aggie wrote: "...we're all too polite to use them."

That's the primary cultural/social issue of our time. One type of person relies on decorum and rules of conduct while the other type combines psychopathic aggression with the surface appearance of decorum to manipulate others.

It's not left versus right but predators versus de facto prey. The polite ones don't defend against aggression, but if they don't learn to fight back they'll become someone's lunch.; 5/5/22, 8:40 AM
AlbertAnonymous said...: Or you could have said “Horse Shit”…

The hypocrisy angle is good though because there is so much of it on the left, and in the media (BIRM) these days. The Dobbs opinion leak has caused them to lose their collective shit, and they simply cannot see the hypocrisy we’ve seen for years.

My body my choice (except you MUST get the vax).

It’s the woman’s choice (no one else’s view matters) except that I MUST wear a mask to protect you and your feelings.

Gavin Newsome’s if men could get pregnant this would never be an issue (except they’ve been telling us men CAN get pregnant)

How can these unelected judges take away our right? Except they’re not, the people and lawmakers will decide.

This is judicial activism, except it’s not, (Roe was the legislating from the bench, judicial activism decision).; 5/5/22, 8:42 AM
R C Belaire said...: No hypocrisy if Trump somehow can't be dragged into the discussion. Strange how that works.; 5/5/22, 8:45 AM
Wince said...: Best horse "pwn" since, well...; 5/5/22, 8:46 AM
wendybar said...: Without double standards, Progressives would have NO standards at all.; 5/5/22, 8:51 AM
Iman said...: Cool those jets when yer hot to trot!; 5/5/22, 8:52 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Howard had very strong opinions about humans using veterinary products last year. I just don’t know what to think about this until I hear from our equine-american pharmaceutical expert!; 5/5/22, 8:59 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Never forget the only casualty of the “fish tank cleaner” kerfuffle was a man intentionally poisoned by his wife, a woman cheered in the media for her anti-Trump pronouncements. Until she was tossed down the COVID memory hole by that very same media. Hmmm.; 5/5/22, 9:03 AM
Achilles said...: What would be a total shocker is if a Democrat actually had a consistent principle.

Other than a constant drive to tell other people what to do of course.; 5/5/22, 9:12 AM
Howard said...: I used to buy DMSO for making Dr. Frankenstein's CBD laced tiger balm on steroids from the feed store. Now I buy the human stuff off Amazon.

Dr. Joel Wallach of Youngevity vitamins and colloidal mineral fame in his world famous lecture Dead Doctors Don't Lie called himself a veterinarian and physician (naturalpathic) who treats you like a dog but you'll feel better.

His main cure-all is the Pig Arthritis Formula mixing vitamin boosted colloidal minerals and a packet of Knox gelatin into a glass of OJ.

He's a deplorable and so are most of his customers. Look it up and be convinced that our farm soil is depleted in essential minerals and that is causing an epidemic of early pain privation and mortality.; 5/5/22, 9:14 AM
Not Sure said...: Waiting for "motherboard" to tweet, "Misoprostol is a horse of a different color."

Of course, the obvious racism of that defense will be even more problematic.; 5/5/22, 9:25 AM
Nancy said...: Wait! We can induce abortions with a med we can get from our vet? Problem solved!; 5/5/22, 9:31 AM
Rusty said...: @Mike
As if on cue. ^
And don't forget devoted Biden voter.; 5/5/22, 9:32 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: So you are avoiding the subject completely. Let’s have a golf clap for Howard y’all!; 5/5/22, 9:35 AM
Howard said...: I almost forgot. Doc Joel Wallach also recommended people with rheumatoid arthritis take minocycline, a fish antibiotic, to cure the low grade infection he believed responsible for the autoimmune disease.

https://www.walmartpetrx.com/p-3437-minocycline-50mg-1-capsule.aspx

I still call those big supplements Horse Pills. I see nothing wrong with using veterinarian products to avoid having to go through a medical doctor like Mike. However, in this case Ivermectin has not been proved out for Covid, no matter how many times you people click your ruby slippers.; 5/5/22, 9:36 AM
Joe Smith said...: If the left didn't have hypocrisy they'd have nothing...; 5/5/22, 9:44 AM
CJ said...: The very word "motherboard" is now banned in Google documents and discouraged by its new Inclusive Language editing feature. Yes, really.

https://ussanews.com/2022/04/25/clumsy-creepy-wrong-google-inclusive-language-function-to-curb-politically-incorrect-language/; 5/5/22, 9:45 AM
Yancey Ward said...: Both are also FDCA approved human drugs, and the formulations for horses are only different, if they are, in dosage. I suppose the only other difference is that you can buy the horse medications without a prescription.; 5/5/22, 9:45 AM
Yancey Ward said...: FDA, not FDCA.; 5/5/22, 9:46 AM
Yancey Ward said...: FDA, not FDCA.; 5/5/22, 9:52 AM
Mark said...: All the forced legalization of abortion did in Roe was to legalize all those "back-alley" abortionists and give them license to do their exact same business in an office rather than the "alley way."

Already this year some states have passed legislation for non-doctors to do abortions and it has even been proposed that non-healthcare professionals be allowed to do them.

It is an odd right that argues for a LOWER standard of care, that says one has the right to the worst of the worst.; 5/5/22, 9:54 AM
Bob Boyd said...: How come they haven't changed their name to Birthingpersonboard? Are they transphobic over there or what?; 5/5/22, 9:55 AM
Carol said...: One remedy to supposedly save a life, another one to actually take a life.

See, it's totally different.; 5/5/22, 10:02 AM
Michael K said...: Look it up and be convinced that our farm soil is depleted in essential minerals and that is causing an epidemic of early pain privation and mortality.

Dr Lysenko, is that you ?; 5/5/22, 10:13 AM
Michael K said...: However, in this case Ivermectin has not been proved out for Covid, no matter how many times you people click your ruby slippers.

More racism from Howard. It was used hundreds of thousands of times in India but those are brown people so what do they know.; 5/5/22, 10:15 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Ivermectin has not been proved out for Covid except as an early intervention. Timing is everything you know. Studies that use Ivermectin after the lungs are affected is not smart or effective. Every country that used it prophylactically (India, Mexico, Japan) has seen great success at avoiding serious illness. Your continued lies about this is reflective of our official government liars who want to push the "vaccine" instead of early treatments.; 5/5/22, 10:16 AM
Daniel12 said...: Howard, all studies that show the uselessness of ivermectin against COVID are plots by the Government-Pharma illuminati, and the absence of any studies that show any effectiveness is actually confirmation that it works and they don't want you to know about it. Don't you know how this works?; 5/5/22, 10:17 AM
ALP said...: How is this different from new agey shit like taking supplements to ward against 'toxins' or homeopathy?; 5/5/22, 10:21 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Howard said...

"I still call those big supplements Horse Pills. I see nothing wrong with using veterinarian products to avoid having to go through a medical doctor like Mike. However, in this case Ivermectin has not been proved out for Covid, no matter how many times you people click your ruby slippers."

Here's some actual science for ya:

Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Trial Sequential Analysis to Inform Clinical Guidelines

"Conclusions:
Moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin. Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease. The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally."

Every time you (or anyone else) calls it horse de-wormer, willful ignorance is on display. Keep it up if you like - hey, it's still a free country, so far - but what little credibility you have left is Shredded even more.; 5/5/22, 10:22 AM
Static Ping said...: What hypocrisy? When your only motivation is to get what you want when you want it, that justifies all things. It is classic three year old. Our higher education system, folks!

It does show how incoherent the philosophical underpinnings of Leftism is, but when it is all about the feels then coherence is a luxury that cannot be afford.; 5/5/22, 10:47 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Sad that medical care is so advanced in India and Mexico compared to the USSA.; 5/5/22, 10:48 AM
Howard said...: There's no place like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like home...; 5/5/22, 11:05 AM
Kevin said...: From Twitter:

@JoeRogan endorses drinking H20 which is actually engine coolant.

LOL!; 5/5/22, 11:11 AM
sharecropper said...: Growing up on a farm with horses, cows, pigs & assorted critters, a vet often used penicillin or other drugs that MD's prescribed for us my family. Should I stop taking penicillin because it was given to our cattle & horses?; 5/5/22, 11:20 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: “However, in this case Ivermectin has not been proved out for Covid, no matter how many times you people click your ruby slippers.”

Now compare its effectiveness and safety against that of the various gene therapy vaccines available under EUAs. You can’t, because Ivermectin and the like are actually quite safe and these gene therapy vaccines are not - but cannot legally be dispensed (under EUAs) if there are safe and effective alternatives. So there officially aren’t any effective alternatives. The thing is though, that there is no profit in “repurposing” existing drugs, while there are billions in profits in giving companies like Pfizer, Moderna, etc, highly government subsidized de facto monopolies. As they say “follow the money”.; 5/5/22, 11:31 AM
Misinforminimalism said...: I haven't read about a public health crisis in the equine community. Perhaps they're on to something.; 5/5/22, 12:15 PM
Achilles said...: Howard said...

There's no place like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like home...

The best part about Howard making himself look stupid is his tendency to go get drunk and double down with it.; 5/5/22, 12:17 PM
n.n said...: Ivermectin is a long-established, safe, effective, affordable drug to treat parasitic and mitigate the progress of Covid-19, 20, 21, and 22 infections in humans.; 5/5/22, 12:19 PM
n.n said...: Prog science and medicine, like prog ethics, are situational.

Ethics is a relativistic, nominally "secular", often politically congruent religion. Leftists uniformly subscribe to the Pro-Choice "ethical" religion.; 5/5/22, 12:21 PM
LA_Bob said...: Howard said, "...Ivermectin has not been proved out for Covid..."

This is correct. Ivermectin has not been not been proved out for Covid. Neither have masks, lockdowns, and lightly tested newfangled non-traditional vaccines, yet these were the official interventions of choice. Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine have been actively discouraged and banned, even criminalized.

One might reasonably imagine that in a pandemic of such urgency as COVID, many more candidates would have been on the table.; 5/5/22, 12:23 PM
n.n said...: Every time you (or anyone else) calls it horse de-wormer, willful ignorance is on display.

They also refer to a baby by the technical term of art "fetus" in order to socially distance themselves from the Choice, the wicked solution, for social, redistributive, clinical, and fair weather causes. Planned parenthood nationally and globally, and Planned parent/hood in several Democrat districts, including: Whitmer/Michigan, Cuomo/New York.; 5/5/22, 12:25 PM
Achilles said...: Now that Howard has been presented with multiple studies showing that Ivermectin treatment results substantial reductions in COVID morbidity he is off to get the real information from the people who got caught funding the development of COVID and are pushing for censorship.; 5/5/22, 12:27 PM
Michael K said...: The thing is though, that there is no profit in “repurposing” existing drugs, while there are billions in profits in giving companies like Pfizer, Moderna, etc, highly government subsidized de facto monopolies. As they say “follow the money”.

This is only one example. Tamoxifen was discovered while researching birth control pills. It's effect on breast cancer was nearly missed. There are a number of other examples of discovering important effects by accident. The use of Lithium for depression, for example, was not widely promoted because it was not patentable,; 5/5/22, 12:38 PM
cubanbob said...: Howard said...
There's no place like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like home..."

Yes Howard. Click your ruby red slippers and come back to Kansas from Oz.; 5/5/22, 1:18 PM
Howard said...: Yeah, like I would waste time reading your horseshit links. You people enjoy going down rabbit holes. Knock your own self out. In case you haven't caught on, I don't care about this topic other than watching your antics which is comedy gold.; 5/5/22, 1:33 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Michael K said...

"This is only one example. Tamoxifen was discovered while researching birth control pills. It's effect on breast cancer was nearly missed. There are a number of other examples of discovering important effects by accident. The use of Lithium for depression, for example, was not widely promoted because it was not patentable."

As is true of minoxidil, adalimumab, and viagra.; 5/5/22, 2:09 PM
Bruce Hayden said...: “This is only one example. Tamoxifen was discovered while researching birth control pills. It's effect on breast cancer was nearly missed. There are a number of other examples of discovering important effects by accident. The use of Lithium for depression, for example, was not widely promoted because it was not patentable”

You are the doctor, but it was probably not that these drugs were unpatentable, but rather that the patents on the drugs, themselves, had expired. Maybe they could get a new patent for a new use of an old drug - but then the physicians just prescribe it off label, and neither they nor their patients make economic defendants for patent litigation. Any single physician or patient is not going to generate the millions of dollars in actual damages required to make patent litigation economically viable.

What sets this off from previous examples though is the money involved. We are talking national governments (including, esp ours here) spending many $billions$ buying these novel gene therapy vaccines at monopoly prices from monopoly providers, and then the governments turn around and mandate that everyone be vaccinated, re, re-re, and now (so far) re-re-re-vaccinated. Vaccines are supposed to imprint our immune systems with the knowledge that some specific group of proteins is bad for us, and thus should be mobilized against when encountered. This may take a second inoculation to take hold, but that isn’t what the 3rd, 4th, etc inoculations are there for. We are not sure exactly what they are doing, but it very clearly not imprinting the knowledge of the genetic sequences of the virus’ spike proteins on our immune systems, because they are already imprinted with that knowledge.

What is deeply corrupt here is that the FDA has been captured by the drug companies it is supposed to regulate. There has long been a revolving door between that agency and the biggest drug companies like Pfizer. But making it worse, all of the regulatory and licensing panels for their COVID-19 vaccine seem to have been populated almost exclusively by researchers and physicians who either are currently being paid, or were paid, in the past, by Pfizer. Yes, in this area, they are the experts, but there is still an immense amount of conflict interest involved in these panels green lighting their product.

These vaccines were never adequately tested, esp for long term side effects. (Toxic) proteins generated by their vaccines have been detected six months after vaccination. They were all supposed to be gone within 48 hours. Whoops. And, they were supposed to stay at the injection site. They have been found all over the body in inconvenient locations, like heart muscle, brain, and reproductive organs. Whoops again. Adequate testing should have exposed this. It didn’t, because the FDA allowed these companies to cut corners in their testing, and then fudging data when problems surfaced (including, removing at least on test subject from the trials when side effects surfaced).

And now the FJB DHS has created a MiniTrue bureau for, among other things, suppressing “disinformation” about its inadequately tested mRNA vaccines that the Administration mandates. Not only were the testing and mandates corrupt, but we can’t take notice of the corruption involved.; 5/5/22, 2:35 PM
D.D. Driver said...: In other news, remember when the gov paused the J&J vaccine and basically killed it in the public's opinion? Funny thing. As it turns out, J&J protects against COVID deaths better than the mRNA viruses and doesn't have the associated risk (50%!!!) of heart problems.

Remind me again how much money Moderna and Pfizer made on mRNA vaccines, again? The gatekeepers of "disiformation" seem to have killed a bunch of motherfuckers and got rich in the process.

"Ironically, the rich countries in Europe and USA have emphasized the more expensive mRNA
vaccines because these vaccines have slightly better short-term vaccine efficacy against COVID19 than the relatively inexpensive adenovirus-vector vaccines, and due to the detection of a rare blood clotting disorder associated with the adenovirus-vector vaccines. While this decision is understandable in the short-term during a situation with high COVID-19-related mortality, in the endemic situation in which COVID-19-related deaths have decreased this decision may need to be reassessed. Otherwise, if the protective effects of adenovirus-vector vaccines on overall mortality in the RCTs reflect the reality, this could turn out to be a very costly decision, both economically and health wise."; 5/5/22, 3:00 PM
FullMoon said...: Sweet!. One trip to the vet cures covid and unwanted pregnancy.; 5/5/22, 3:05 PM
FullMoon said...: Kudos to Howard, annoying enough to generate comments, yet mild enough to avoid being banned.

A real pro.; 5/5/22, 3:08 PM
n.n said...: All the forced legalization of abortion did in Roe was to legalize all those "back-alley" abortionists and give them license to do their exact same business in an office rather than the "alley way."

Exactly. Homicides are performed in darkness, under a veil of privacy, if the abortionist can get away with it. We cannot stop them, but civilized societies attempt to discourage, mitigate their progress anyway.

That said, there is no mystery in sex and conception, a woman, and man, have four choices, and an equal right to self-defense through reconciliation. Planned parent/hood is a wicked solution, a final solution, to a purportedly hard problem: keep women, and girls, appointed, available, and taxable for social, redistributive, clinical, and fair weather causes. From six weeks, the first heart beat, coherent nervous system function, a symmetric viability to granny. From conception, the "big bang", the evolution of an independent human life. Good luck to mom and dad, with your choice, you have accepted personal responsibility for the hardest job you will ever love. #HateLovesAbortion; 5/5/22, 3:11 PM
Rusty said...: FullMoon said...
"Sweet!. One trip to the vet cures covid and unwanted pregnancy." LOL! I use a beta blocker that is also used by vets for the same reason-regulate heart arrhythmia. So asked my doctor if push came to shove could I use the vet approved product. Turns out, yeah it all comes from the same product line.; 5/5/22, 4:57 PM
Michael K said...: Howard said...

Yeah, like I would waste time reading your horseshit links.<

That's what Fauci and Birx said to Scott Atlas when he tried to interest them in current literature on the virus and what works in treatment. Instead we got lockdown and economic disaster. How's your 401k doing today?; 5/5/22, 7:01 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Howard said...

"Yeah, like I would waste time reading your horseshit links."

Yeah, like anyone cares.; 5/5/22, 7:51 PM
Rusty said...: Howard has become Chuck.Eventually all Biden voters reveal their mental instability.; 5/6/22, 7:56 AM