00:00:00.000Today on the Matt Wall Show, we talk about lies, damned lies, and studies.
00:00:04.680The left tells us to follow the science, but often manipulates, quote, the science to fabricate the desired result.
00:00:10.540That's certainly the case with a new study proving, quote unquote, that gender reassignment surgery is a wonderful thing for children.
00:00:16.200We'll talk about that. Also, some students in Virginia walk out and protest against policies that make them safer and protect their privacy.
00:00:23.220Don Lemon embarrasses himself gloriously yet again on camera.
00:00:26.300And people seem to be very concerned about a sex scandal involving something called the Try Guys.
00:00:31.880In our daily cancellation, Gen Z has found a new way to rebrand laziness.
00:00:36.440We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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00:02:05.640Well, there are many ways to lie, to tell a lie in the modern world, but few methods are more effective than the lie told through an allegedly scientific study.
00:02:15.660People these days are obsessed with studies.
00:02:18.620Every argument online devolves into a food fight with each side flinging studies at each other.
00:02:24.020And the great thing is that no matter the topic and no matter what opinion you hold about that topic, you can always find a study that supports what you already believed.
00:02:34.500This is what research usually entails.
00:02:36.900When a person claims to have researched a topic and they start claiming that you should do your research.
00:02:42.320I've done my research, but what they really mean is they went to Google, they typed in their opinion into the search bar, and then the word study, and then they accept it as a fact whatever results popped up first.
00:02:56.340I mean, nobody actually reads the studies.
00:02:58.560Nobody even reads the abstract or a few lines of the introduction.
00:03:01.760They probably don't know that studies have abstracts or introductions.
00:03:04.620They don't even know what a study is exactly.
00:03:06.440All they need is a media headline about the study, and they will, of course, immediately discard any headlines about studies that came to the opposite conclusion from the one they wanted.
00:03:17.420So they could sift through 10 different headlines, and nine of them are talking about studies that contradict them, and they'll zone in on that one study that confirms what they're saying, and then that's all the proof they need.
00:03:31.020They just need that one headline about one study, and that's enough for them to consider their entire viewpoint vindicated.
00:03:38.180And now they can accuse everyone who disagrees with them of not doing their research and not following the science.
00:03:44.760What they don't realize, and probably wouldn't care if they did realize, is that a huge number of studies are, to put it scientifically, bullcrap.
00:03:53.000Very often, studies that arrive at positive conclusions about a certain thing or a certain practice are funded by companies that produce the thing or engage in the practice.
00:04:04.320And no matter who funds the study, there is no law or legal policy requiring that the supposed researchers conducting the study actually follow anything resembling the scientific process.
00:04:17.400A few years ago, I've mentioned this before, there's a nine-year-old boy who conducted an informal survey of a few plastic straw manufacturers and arrived at the conclusion, based on his estimate from these conversations, that Americans use 500 million plastic straws a day.
00:04:33.060And the media trumpeted it as a study proving that Americans use 500 million plastic straws a day.
00:04:40.260And that study, which mostly consisted of a fourth grader making up statistics for a school project, was used to pass legislation across the country banning plastic straws.
00:04:50.540Every time you go to a restaurant now and you use a paper straw that dissolves in your soda within 30 seconds, well, it's because of this study, which was not really a study at all.
00:05:54.580The quality of life of young transmasculine people dramatically improves after receiving top surgery, a mastectomy procedure that removes breast tissue, according to a study by Northwestern Medicine.
00:06:06.180The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal JAMA Pediatrics on Monday, is the first to show that top surgery is, quote,
00:06:12.820associated with significant improvement in chest dysphoria, gender congruence, and body image in transmasculine and non-binary teens and young adults.
00:06:21.980The study compared two groups of patients ranging in ages from 14 to 24.
00:08:04.620They found out that it is, in fact, good.
00:08:06.560That's a result so convenient for them that it's almost like they would specifically engineer the result in order to justify what they're already doing and profiting from.
00:08:16.880And that's exactly what they did, as it turns out.
00:08:20.820So the study tracks 36 surgical patients and then 34 control group patients, all from the same metropolitan region.
00:08:28.600We'll have more on the control group in just a moment.
00:08:30.820But once again, already we know that this is bunk, and we haven't even gotten to the worst part yet.
00:08:35.500But we know that because you cannot arrive at any truly scientific and generally applicable conclusion based on a selection of 36 test subjects, all from the same area and the same general socioeconomic background.
00:08:50.540Yet, as mentioned, that's not the worst of it.
00:08:54.120The researchers here, and by researchers, I mean people in the business of engaging in the very practice they're studying, followed up with the surgical patients.
00:09:02.020They followed up three months after surgery, three months.
00:09:08.300So based on self-reported data from the patient, three months post-op, they've concluded that transition regret is basically not, that doesn't happen.
00:09:35.260For children especially, the question is not how they're going to feel about it several weeks later.
00:09:41.600Okay, I don't need to know, a girl who gets top surgery, quote unquote, at 14, I'm not as curious about how she feels about it when she's 14 and a half.
00:09:51.760Okay, I want to know how she's going to feel about it when she's 19 or when she's 24 or when she's 30.
00:10:01.160Okay, how will the adult version of her feel about the decision made by the child version?
00:10:08.080That's the question that I'm wondering.
00:10:10.680You cannot accurately measure regret from any serious life decision three months after the decision was made.
00:10:19.440Okay, that's when the forces of self-delusion are at their strongest.
00:10:22.760When you've done something, you've made a decision that's going to impact the rest of your life, three months later, you're still in the mode of convincing yourself that it was the right thing to do.
00:10:33.380The regret comes after you've gotten past the self-delusion and you've gotten to the point, you know, you've conjured up the courage to actually confront what you did and to say this was the wrong thing.
00:10:49.900That's exactly why they cut the study off precisely at that point.
00:10:54.400They had to decide what point to cut it off and they chose three months.
00:10:58.100Because they knew that if they chose even six months or a year, the results would be very different.
00:11:05.560This is to say nothing of the fundamental problem with self-reported data in a study like this.
00:11:10.400The people involved, they know why the question is being asked.
00:11:16.400That's the other thing you have to ask in a study is, is this a blind study?
00:11:20.020A blind study is the people involved in the study, the subjects, they don't know what they're doing or what the study is about or why they're there.
00:11:29.040If it's not a blind study and the people know why you're asking the question, then that's going to skew the results.
00:11:35.820They know that if they say they feel regret, it will be used to fuel what they perceive as, quote, transphobic talking points.
00:11:43.700So they have no incentive to be honest and every incentive to paint a rosy picture.
00:24:11.280In other words, the rule puts Virginia schools in line with the rules that were in every school that's ever existed up until nine minutes ago.
00:24:20.520But that led to this, as reported by NBC News.
00:24:23.120Students across Virginia protested Tuesday in response to new guidelines putting restrictions on transgender students in the state's public schools.
00:24:33.500The policies are the same for everyone.
00:24:35.560Use the bathroom that aligns with your sex.
00:24:37.400Parents can know what's happening with their kids.
00:24:39.280So there are no special restrictions being put on anyone.
00:24:42.200It's the same restrictions for everyone.
00:24:45.820Walkouts are set to take place throughout the day at more than 90 middle and high schools in the state, according to the student-run advocacy group Pride Liberation Project, which organized the statewide effort.
00:24:55.640Yeah, I'm sure that's really student-run, organizing a statewide effort.
00:24:59.280There's no adult influence there at all, is there?
00:25:01.600As of noon on Tuesday, students in Woodbridge, Springfield, Manassas, and other Virginia cities were waving rainbow picket signs and shouting trans rights or human rights.
00:25:11.420Now, the left, of course, is making a big deal out of the walkouts as if it proves something.
00:25:36.960And also it shows that kids have been sufficiently brainwashed so that even some of these girls, many of them probably, who go to these schools, will protest against policies that grant them safety and respect.
00:25:50.800Okay, so they are protesting against their own dignity and safety.
00:25:55.960Because they're kids, they don't know any better.
00:25:58.260One such student was interviewed on cable news.
00:26:06.140Do you think they delivered the message that you wanted them to send?
00:26:10.680I think looking at social media, looking across the press that we've received today, I really think that we got the message across that we wanted to, which is Virginia students are not behind these proposed guidelines.
00:26:25.020Governor Youngkin's team is telling NBC News in a statement, partly, that when parents are part of the process, schools will accommodate the requests of children and their families, adding parents should be a part of their children's lives.
00:26:40.360These proposed regulations are not about parental rights.
00:26:44.200If they really were about parental rights, then Governor Youngkin would be looking at things like expanding access to democracy in Virginia.
00:26:52.480This is about attacking Virginia students.
00:26:54.880We also hear that Governor Youngkin doesn't think that students understand how harmful these policies can be.
00:27:03.040Countless students in Virginia have read these policies and understand that the real implications are not to protect the rights of parents, but instead to deny our identity, our humanity, and our very existence.
00:27:15.520You know, I actually feel sorry for this girl.
00:27:18.980Of course I do, because she's just a kid.
00:27:20.660She's in high school, so she's, I don't know, maybe five or six years older than my own kids at most.
00:27:27.500And unlike what you hear maybe from some older leftists, especially elected Democrats who are going on and on about trans rights and they don't believe anything they're saying, she believes it.
00:28:29.800So they're actually not capable of thinking through all this stuff.
00:28:32.500And if the left has their way, they'll never be capable of it.
00:28:38.180Speaking of someone who doesn't have critical thinking skills, this is another great moment on CNN.
00:28:42.060It's almost as good as that lady giving Don Lemon a lesson about the history of slavery, which one of my favorite all-time cable news clips.
00:28:49.360This is from a couple weeks ago, if you remember.
00:28:50.600This is maybe not quite that good, but this is still great stuff.
00:28:56.120So here is Don Lemon reporting on the hurricane and trying to get his guest to make it a lecture on climate change.
00:29:21.680We think the rapid intensification is probably almost done.
00:29:25.880There could be a little bit more intensification as it's still over the warm waters of the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
00:29:31.640But I don't think we're going to get any more rapid intensification.
00:29:34.360If you look here, you can actually see, pretty interesting for your viewers, you can actually see a second eyewall forming around the inner eyewall.
00:29:43.460And that's basically the second eyewall has overtaken the original eyewall.
00:30:30.300Of course, what you just heard there is the case.
00:30:34.020First of all, when a hurricane is bearing down on us or bearing down on Florida, conversations about climate change are abstract and academic and totally useless.
00:30:46.700They're not going to do anything for us right now.
00:30:48.200Even if it's true that climate change, like you driving your car to work, actually caused you yourself during your commute, you scumbag, you villain, you have caused this hurricane.
00:31:01.880Even if that was true, that doesn't do anything for us now.
00:31:04.760OK, now we've got to deal with just like the reality of this hurricane.
00:31:43.080Even based on the left's own logic, you could accept everything they tell you about climate change.
00:31:50.640Just accept it uncritically, which you shouldn't, by the way, as we've already gone over.
00:31:53.740You shouldn't accept uncritically anything they say ever about anything.
00:31:57.080But even if you did, you still can't draw the connection to one specific event.
00:32:05.200And we know that because hurricanes, I keep saying it until I get blue in the face, but hurricanes have always happened.
00:32:12.400And you can, now Don Lemon might say, oh, well, I grew up in Florida.
00:32:14.820I remember, but hurricanes have gotten more serious.
00:32:17.820That's an, yeah, there's some anecdotal data.
00:32:21.260Okay, well, Don Lemon was, experienced some hurricanes and he knows that these are worse.
00:32:27.780Well, if you're doing the anecdotal thing, I mean, I, I've never lived in a, in a hurricane prone area.
00:32:34.920But I have been watching, unfortunately, cable news since I was a child.
00:32:40.860And what I know is that the media, every single hurricane season has said that it's the worst season ever and that every hurricane is a monster.
00:32:50.180It's the worst thing that's ever going to happen.
00:32:52.100And then sometimes it actually pans out.
00:32:53.620And the hurricane, like this, that might well be, looks like that's going to be the case with this one.
00:32:56.720The hurricane actually is as bad as they say.
00:32:58.540But, but, but I know the media says that about every hurricane and every hurricane season.
00:33:01.860And that's been the case for as long as I can remember.
00:33:04.140So there's my anecdote in competition with, with Don Lemons.
00:33:10.160You can also go, it doesn't take long to go, you can, you can go online and look up deadliest hurricanes in history, worst hurricanes, most serious hurricanes.
00:33:20.240And you're going to find dates going back to like the 1600s.
00:33:28.600Of course, when you, when you start going farther and farther back, it's, there, there aren't as many records.
00:33:35.100Like if, if, if the worst hurricane in history hit Florida in, let's say the year, I don't know, 1307, how would we know that?
00:33:48.500There wasn't, there were people around, but there weren't people around keeping reliable historical records about these things, measuring wind gusts and everything.
00:33:56.580They didn't have satellite data, certainly.
00:34:02.900It's one of the problems you run into when you start making declarations about, this is the worst weather event in history.
00:34:07.520How could, how could you possibly know that?
00:34:12.080When there have been serious weather events occurring on the face of the earth for billions of years, and we've only been keeping records of them for, I mean, comparatively, we've basically been keeping records, reliable records for, for five seconds.
00:34:26.460In comparison to the whole history of humanity and certainly of the, of the earth itself.
00:34:39.280Oregon has spent more than $300 million on services for drug addicts, but experts are warning lawmakers that the state's efforts are not working.
00:34:48.380Since Oregon effectively decriminalized drugs in 2020, the state has poured about $302 million into addiction and social services for addicts, but the overdose rate, death rate rather, has only risen, largely driven by the influx of fentanyl.
00:35:03.620Last week, the Oregon Health Authority, OHA, announced that it had finally awarded the $302 million to nonprofits working to combat addiction.
00:35:12.860The funding was the first round of grants awarded under Oregon's drug decriminalization law, Measure 110, which decriminalized possession of small amounts of most hard drugs, including cocaine, heroin, LSD, and methamphetamine.
00:35:25.320The law's grant program uses tax dollars from marijuana sales for addiction services.
00:35:31.000The grant money goes to pay for services not covered by Medicaid, such as outreach, peer mentors, housing, and clean needles for intravenous drug use.
00:35:39.120So that's part of what's happening here is we're actually, in order to help with drug succession, help people get over their drug addiction, in Oregon anyway, and in other states as well, they're facilitating drug abuse.
00:35:52.980They're making drug abuse easier, making it easier to access drug paraphernalia so that they can engage in drug use.
00:36:00.480I will say this is one thing that I've been wrong about.
00:36:05.880It's not often that I say that on this show, but I've never been a proponent of decriminalizing all drugs.
00:36:13.400I've never said we should decriminalize heroin and methamphetamine.
00:36:16.480I've always recognized that as insane.
00:36:18.580But I did go through a period, I mean, up until recently, where I said that, you know, we probably should just make pot legal or at least decriminalize it.
00:36:26.040And I had all the standard arguments for it, the cost of enforcement, the fact that pot arguably isn't much more physically dangerous than alcohol, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, all those arguments you're familiar with, many of which you've probably made yourself.
00:36:40.520But I've since come to realize, and that for me was a change.
00:36:45.320I used to be able to ban all drugs, and I said, oh, well, marijuana, okay, I can see the argument.
00:36:49.540Now I'm going back to, I think you just got to ban all this stuff.
00:37:25.560Like, everybody is high all the time in public in a lot of these cities.
00:37:29.700And then the drug abuse problem for many of the harder drugs has only gotten worse.
00:37:34.760Is that because we decriminalized marijuana?
00:37:37.260Well, there might not be a direct connection.
00:37:38.920I think there's probably a connection, but it might not be one directly led to the other.
00:37:45.100And you could point out that we were trending in this direction with the drug abuse, drug overdose epidemic before marijuana was decriminalized.
00:37:55.880But even so, we were made certain promises.
00:37:58.360And many of these issues were blamed, at least in part, on drug prohibition.
00:38:05.440Well, you lift drug prohibition, and the problems only get worse.
00:39:07.300I mean, that is what it looks like we've discovered when you get rid of the stigma and you also get rid of the legal penalties on these drugs.
00:44:01.260Also, though, it shows that there has been this, right, there's, like, every week, it's another YouTuber or TikTok person who's all over the headlines and is trending.
00:44:13.540And then I, along with the other old fogies among us, I look at them and I say, who, I don't know, who are they and what even do they do?
00:44:20.040At least when you hear about a pop star or something you've never heard of.
00:44:24.760It's like you haven't heard of this person, but you understand the concept of pop music.
00:44:28.660And so you know at least that's what they do and how they became famous.
00:44:31.680A lot of these people now, I'm not sure what they do.
00:44:36.660Part of that is this total fracturing and splintering of the culture.
00:44:40.340And we do take for granted, you know, we take for granted that kids will have different celebrities, different pop culture figures that they're into.
00:44:47.360And that is relatively normal from a modern perspective anyway.
00:44:51.300You can go back to Elvis, you know, and back then the kids were into Elvis and the adults thought that he was a harbinger of evil.
00:44:59.900And it kind of turns out that the adults were actually correct about that because when you take into account what pop music became over time, I think that they were basically right.
00:45:07.520But anyway, at least back then, the adults knew who Elvis was, even if they thought he was terrible.
00:45:15.340And when I was a kid in the 90s, the kids had their pop stars, like we had our pop stars.
00:45:20.340And the adults didn't really follow it that closely, but they at least knew who the people were for the most part.
00:45:28.500The adults in the 90s maybe were a little bit less clued in just because there were more pop culture figures to keep track of.
00:45:33.960But now you go another 20 or 30 years in the future and kids sort of exist in their own universe.
00:45:42.460They have their own landscape entirely, their own little bubble universe with their own celebrities and nobody even knows who these people are or what they do.
00:45:51.380There's very little shared culture from generation to generation.
00:45:54.440There's actually none at all, which is a problem.
00:45:57.100One other thought related to this, this is another scandal of a famous person, apparently famous person, who is caught cheating, being unfaithful.
00:46:07.900And this is something men are now getting in trouble for.
00:46:09.860Adam Levine, who is someone, at least I do know who that is, he's another one who got in trouble for that, for cheating.
00:46:15.000And that's fine with me because I think that if you cheat, you commit adultery, you should be shamed publicly for that.
00:46:20.860Especially if you're a famous person, you've kind of agreed to live your life on the public stage, whether you like it or not.
00:46:26.460Adultery is a terrible thing, and if people react to it accordingly, then that's good.
00:47:17.700Things like fidelity and loyalty and love and dignity, all of these things are important as well.
00:47:24.320And if you remove all of those but you still have consent, it is a disordered and bad thing.
00:47:31.320So I guess what I'm saying is I have kind of the moral framework, and maybe you have the moral framework, to condemn guys who cheat on their wives.
00:47:41.720But a lot of these leftists especially who are making a big deal out of this, they don't have the framework for it.
00:47:48.880Unless they're going to admit that they were wrong about sexual morality this whole time.
00:47:52.700In which case, I'm happy to have them on board.
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00:55:55.500Oh, okay, just making sure, because that looks like the work of two people, right?
00:55:59.440Right? And I'm one. I'm just one person, right?
00:56:01.680It would appear that acting your wage means being so grating and annoying and shrill that you end up sitting alone in an empty corner of the office
00:56:21.000because everybody else has jumped out the window.
00:56:24.140Now, if you're still confused about what this movement is supposed to be, the New York Post has more details.