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MACDONALD: Media Narratives and Reality

June 27, 2026 Steve MacDonald

Ticks again? Yes. It’s important to measure and contrast media narratives with reality. As you may recall, in April 2026, we had three more reported ER visits for tick bites than in any previous year (per the CDC). The result was a cavalcade of fearmongering headlines about the coming apocalypse. My response was to find … Read more

Morning Update: Ticks Ticks Ticks

May 28, 2026 The Morning Update

Today, on the Morning Update, there’s been a lot of attention paid to the problem of tick bites and ER visits this spring. It’s got people riled up and worried, and depending on where you look, it’s an apocalypse caused by everything from climate change to a manufactured outbreak. Guess what? It’s neither. 00:00 Introduction … Read more

Cosmo Lead researcher summer tick project

MACDONALD: Holy Frikkin Ticks, Batman

October 21, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Ticks are one of the approved barometers of the Climate cult. A collection of markers by which people who hate property rights and comfort (Democrats) leverage fear and misinformation to separate you from both. For the record, so is everything else. A barometer, I mean. There is no “thing” that doesn’t buttress the dogma of … Read more

PAYNE: Biological Warfare

August 23, 2025 Russ Payne

Over many decades, hundreds of thousands of people have experienced the physical, debilitating symptoms of Lyme disease. Kris Newby, in her book “Bitten,” reveals the backstory behind the bioweaponizing of ticks during the Cold War.” Having myself endured 2 to 3 week periods of chronic fatigue, body aches, and flu-like symptoms that strangely disappeared after … Read more

What Ticks, Thin Lizzy, and Saliva have in Common

October 17, 2023 Steve MacDonald

It’s been two weeks since our gripping first tick of ‘Autumn” report. And that was the only tick we’d picked off the dogo since spring and until…this weekend. The ticks are back, baby, and the season is on us. Full blown, practically overnight. And yes, this is weird, but it brought two songs to mind.

The First Tick of Fall

September 30, 2023 Steve MacDonald

After very little thought, I renamed this recurring topic. My dog is still white and with us, but he is a lab, and since this is a pseudo-sciency observational update (fisking) sort of thing, LAB works. White Dog Research is now White Lab Research, and we just saw the first tick of Autumn.

My ‘Tick Season’ Numbers are a Lot Lower Than Last Year – Do I Blame Climate Change?

May 29, 2023May 28, 2023 Steve MacDonald

I was chatting with Skip about ticks (arachnids and Democrats), and he mentioned having a severe problem (in his yard) with the former. It got me thinking. Last year we had it bad where I live (Southern NH). This year – few to none.

Summer is Over: So, How’d That ‘Ticks All Year’ Thing Hold Up?

October 1, 2022 Steve MacDonald

I am happy to say we have concluded our white dog summer research project. The object was to test a progressive premise established in May that “tick season” would be all year round ‘cuz, Climate change. The final results?

About that “Tick Season” All-Year-Round-Thing … Did you Mean Democrats?

September 3, 2022September 3, 2022 Steve MacDonald

Ticks are a problem. Yes, Democrats, but I’m also referring to the parasitic arachnids that cling to us and our pets. Back in the spring (when ticks are abundant), some experts predicted tick season all summer long which inspired us to do some research to test the theory.

White Dog Research Update: Despite “Warming” Tick Season Did Not Extend Into Summer

September 3, 2022August 3, 2022 Steve MacDonald

Back in May, I called BS on a ‘mental seed’ planted in the fertile minds of gullible readers by so-called “experts” on tick populations. By seed, I mean make a statement of opinion, surround it with the potential for facts, and let people believe it’s true.

Vermont Says Tick Season is All Year Now – Of Course it is, The Place is Run by Democrats

May 22, 2022 Steve MacDonald

The headline at VT Digger is, in my amateur opinion – a bit misleading. “Officials say tick season is now all year,” Officials did say it, so it’s not on Digger, but I call BS. In Vermont, November, December, and January are inhospitable, even to ticks.

Connecticut Town Should Demand We Change the Name of “Lyme” Disease

February 4, 2021February 3, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Imagine if the town of Lyme, Connecticut, abruptly decided to protest the use of its name for the debilitating affliction we know as Lyme or Lyme disease? There’s not much chance of success. Why? Lyme (the town) isn’t run by Chinese Communists heavily invested in US Politicians and our media.