The Bone Collector
Update 805. Hysterics at The Willy Institutes. #BeMorePorcupine.
Dusty Towers is swamped with news and views so this is a two parter, dear readers.
We recently had a detective film competition won by Petal. Petal is a paid subscriber and, instead of choosing someone she knows to get the ‘prize’ of a free paid subscription, she kindly said that I should offer it out to free subscribers. So….. another competition, but this time just for free subscribers ( sorry, paid subscribers). If you would like to win a free paid subscription (names will be drawn from a hat as previously), please let me know your favourite Western before Update 810 and the winner will be announced in that Update ( you can e-mail me your nomination at Dusty1958@protonmail.com if you prefer). You may have noticed I am beginning to do more one off pieces for paid subscribers so there will hopefully be more of an advantage from being a paid subscriber. Get thinking about your nomination!
Meanwhile onwards with the Dusty, Nicola and Moodie Film Series. Please keep the suggestions for films coming in but please check the list first which I am updating as we go along. Please send suggestions in the comments here at this link:
The Bone Collector is a 1999 American film directed by Phillip Noyce and starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie.
In 1998 New York City, forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme (Washington) is bed-bound after an accident that left him quadriplegic. Amelia Donaghy (Jolie), a newly recruited patrol officer, discovers a mutilated corpse buried at a Civil War-era railroad bed. Rhyme directs her through a free video/audio feed sent from Donaghy to him in his bedroom. Due to objects found at the crime scene, Rhyme concludes that the scene was staged. Impressed by Donaghy's forensic instincts, he teams up with the young officer.
In the clips:
Queen Latifah is Thelma
Ed O’Neill is Detective Paulie Sellitto
Mike McGlone as Detective Kenny Solomon
I have an LP by Queen Latifah who is also a singer and songwriter!
Thanks to four wonderful readers for suggested pieces.
Some of the linked pieces below may be behind a paywall.
UK - The Women’s Institute
We recently reported on the WI ( or the Willy Institute) very reluctantly agreeing to comply with the For Women Scotland judgment: https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/insomnia-part-2?utm_source=publication-search
Jean Hatchet on her substack looks at two branches who are resigning because of their love of larping men and looks at the reasons as to why women would be acting in this way. All thoughts gratefully received.
Why do women cheerlead for men pretending to be women?
Fear, performance and self-loathing. Amongst other things.
Feb 10, 2026
Last week an announcement surfaced from a Sheffield branch of the Women’s Institute called ‘Seven Hills WI’. It said,
“Following the recent national WI ruling on membership eligibility (effective April 2026) we need to share some difficult news about our group’s future. Our current officers have decided not to renew their membership with the WI, and at present no one has come forward to fill these roles. Without officers or a committee in place, Seven Hills WI will be suspended from April 2026.”
They add that they will be looking for “alternative options”.
Those options, the only option to be tolerated, must include men pretending to be women with the ever-powerful term “trans woman” continuing to guide women towards their own destruction. The women leading the group must carry on pretending with the men who have invaded their women’s group to appease and please them.
The Supreme Court Judgement of April 2025 has forced the Women’s Institute to accept that men aren’t in fact women and this has been terrifying for the leadership of the WI who have men firmly embedded in their ranks as a result of years of dereliction of their duty to keep the spaces for women only. They clearly aren’t very happy about the truth landing smack bang in the middle of their policy as they tell us here,
“It is with the utmost regret and sadness that we must announce that, from April 2026, we can no longer offer formal membership to transgender women. As an organisation that has proudly welcomed transgender women into our membership for more than 40 years, this is not something we would do unless we felt that we had no other choice”.
I am told that what is happening in the Sheffield branch is happening all over the UK. Women are deliberately ending women’s groups because they are no longer legally permitted to include men in them. The careful and valuable bonds created between women are being deliberately severed by some of the women who are more devoted to serving men with a nasty fetish for imitating them, than they are to other women.
Another group ‘Hackney Wicked Women WI’ announced,
“Last month a crisis meeting was held to discuss the future of Hackney Wicked Women After the WI announced it would no longer offer membership to transgender women. Following extensive discussions we are extremely saddened to announce that we are no longer able to continue as a WI. Hackney Wicked Women refuse to accept the marginalisation of trans people. We believe that the new ruling no longer makes the WI an inclusive organisation.”
These are some of the most cowardly and self-sabotaging women in the UK. They are traitors to those of us not even inside the Women’s Institute, their subservience to the abusive men a sign to these men that they can inflict themselves on women in other areas of their lives too. If they crossed one boundary they can find another, and they will because they hate women.
The full piece is here:
A Week In The Media
Excellent round up of the media both in the US and the UK by SEEN In Journalism, starting with the Fox Varian case which was well reported in the US but not over here in the UK.
Censorship by AI
Andrew Doyle on his substack looks at censorship by AI and gives an excellent example.
Will AI become the ultimate censor?
Artificial Intelligence can be a valuable research tool, but not if it insists on shielding us from the truth.
Feb 09, 2026
Artificial Intelligence can be both a help and a hindrance. As a search engine it can be invaluable, finding obscure data with rapid precision. At the same time, it has the unfortunate habit of inventing quotations and passing them off as real. But a far greater concern is that it often curates its findings out of a paternalistic sense of responsibility. On a number of occasions, my searches have been thwarted by ChatGPT if it believes that I might be at risk of moral corruption.
This sounds unlikely, but allow me to offer a specific example. For those readers with access to ChatGPT, try entering the following question: ‘Can you provide details of the case of Adil Rashid, the man who was convicted of the rape of a 13-year-old girl but had his sentence reduced on the grounds of cultural differences?’ The AI model will begin to answer, providing a summary of the case, and then delete the information before your eyes and claim that its content policies have been violated. ……………..
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What are we to make of this? This story is in the public domain, it was reported in mainstream outlets such as the Daily Mail, and there is obviously no sound reason to prevent a user from accessing the details. By contrast, if you ask the same question of Grok (Elon Musk’s AI model), you will receive a comprehensive answer that doesn’t self-destruct Mission Impossible style. This is Grok’s account:
‘In 2013, Adil Rashid, an 18-year-old man from Birmingham, UK, was convicted at Nottingham Crown Court of engaging in sexual activity with a child under 16, specifically a 13-year-old girl he had groomed online. The case involved statutory rape under UK law, as the girl was below the age of consent. Rashid admitted to the offense but received a suspended sentence rather than imprisonment, with the judge citing his immaturity, naivety, and the influence of his religious education as mitigating factors.’
Grok goes on to give examples of key quotations from the case, including Judge Michael Stokes’s description of Rashid as ‘very naive and immature when it comes to sexual matters’ as justification for the lenient ruling. It further cites the rapist’s claim that he was unaware that sex with children was illegal and that his education in a madrassa had led him to believe that ‘women are no more worthy than a lollipop that has been dropped on the ground’.
Could it be that ChatGPT deems it unacceptable for the public to be made aware of this case?
The full piece is here:
https://www.andrewdoyle.org/p/will-ai-become-the-ultimate-censor
Stop The Clinical Trial
We reported recently on the legal challenge to the Department of Health having been lodged:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/challenge-to-the-streeting-trial
Jenny Nabben on The Glinner Update compares the puberty blockers scandal to the OxyContin scandal in the States:
Anatomy of a Medical Scandal
From OxyContin to puberty blockers: Big Pharma’s playbook for creating iatrogenic medical scandals.
Feb 10, 2026
Gerald Posner’s groundbreaking investigative book, “Pharma, Greed, Lies and the Poisoning of America” (2020) exposes Purdue Pharmaceutical’s playbook in manufacturing the opioid scandal that resulted in the death of 800,000 people in the U.S.
In the book, Posner lays bare the universal components required for iatrogenic medical scandals from opioids to paediatric gender medicine:
1. Create or expand a new or underserved cohort of patients
2. Develop and promote a body of pseudoscience and junk research
3. Invest in “front” organisations and frame treatments as a “human right”
4. Offer financial incentives to obtain compliance and collusion.
5. Promote medical treatments as “breakthrough” solutions.
Grow the Patient Pool
Opioids were originally prescribed for short-term use by terminal cancer patients in hospitals, but Richard Sackler wanted to grow Purdue’s market share to increase profits. In court filings, Sackler was shown to direct marketing efforts to target “opioid-naïve” groups: returning veterans, the elderly, postpartum women and workers in labour-intensive industries.
OxyContin was Purdue’s patented controlled-release oxycodone, designed to provide steady pain relief over a 12-hour period that could now be marketed to those with arthritis, back pain, migraines, work injuries, fibromyalgia and general musculoskeletal pain.
In 1996, OxyContin prescriptions totalled just 317,000 for palliative and cancer patients. But by the early 2000s, the number of prescriptions surged to 14 million, with 86% of the market shifting to non-cancer chronic pain patients.
Gender Medicine
Just as the opioid crisis was driven by marketing OxyContin to a new, untapped patient cohort, the explosion in gender clinic referrals for puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries required an entirely new patient pool with markedly different clinical presentations from the original cohort.
The group of transsexual patients was diagnosed with ‘early onset gender dysphoria’ by sexologists - a persistent sense of discomfort about being male and a strong desire to be the opposite sex.
Looking back, it’s difficult to fathom how a tiny, adult-male-focused field became the most politicised and consequential area of modern paediatric medicine. The change in patient population, age and clinical presentation is a stark reversal – from adult men with sexual fetishism to prepubescent children and (mostly) girls struggling with a range of comorbidities.
The full piece is here:
https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-a-medical-scandal
EDI Jester discusses an article in The Critic by Maya Forstater of Sex Matters.
Kelly Dougall on her podcast interviews Dana Westerburg who was prescribed the puberty blocking drug, Lupron to counter her endometriosis. She only took Lupron for two years and stopped taking it 10 years ago but still suffers from the side effects. Dana tells of her anger on discovering that Lupron was being given to distressed children with so called ‘gender dysphoria.’
Men In Women’s Sport
James Smoliga, DVM, PhD on Reality’s Last Stand discusses a very misleading paper published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine and explains in detail just why it is wrong.
Why Recreational Fitness Data on Trans Athletes Can’t Set Elite Sports Policy
What a widely cited BJSM paper actually shows—and why it doesn’t answer questions about elite competition.
Feb 09, 2026
About the Author
James Smoliga, D.V.M., Ph.D., is a professor at Tufts University School of Medicine who studies translational science, sports medicine, and how scientific evidence is applied in clinical practice and public health policy. He writes the Substack newsletters “Beyond the Abstract,” about the intersection of research, academia, and society, and “Human Limits,” focused on sports science.
A new paper in the British Journal of Sports Medicine has been making the rounds this week, promoted as evidence that sex differences in athletic performance largely disappear once testosterone is suppressed.
The headline version goes something like this: After hormone therapy, performance differences shrink. Therefore, biological differences must not matter very much.
On first read, that sounds plausible. Reasonable, even.
And to be fair, the study isn’t junk science. It has real strengths: a large pooled analysis, longitudinal hormone measurements, objective fitness testing, and—in some of the included studies—repeated assessments over time. On the surface, this is careful, methodical work.
But the paper quietly answers a very different question than the one people are using it to settle.
This is not a study about athletics or competitive sports performance. It’s a study about general physical fitness.
And that mismatch—more than anything about hormones or politics—is where the problem begins. The authors conclude that there is no evidence of “inherent athletic advantages for transgender women over cisgender,” a claim that goes well beyond what their data can actually support. That’s because the study is looking at recreational fitness, while elite sport lives in an entirely different physiological universe.
The full piece is here:
Femininity
I am sure all of my readers will know that femininity is not an essential part of ‘being a woman.’ But larping men think it is and you will doubtless come across this argument if you are having a debate with a trans rights believer ( if they will debate at all). Karen Davis on her substack, You’re Kidding, Right? dissects the argument.
Terf Island Discs
Thanks to all readers ( and me 😀) who have made suggestions and we still have lots of songs to go that will take us well into 2026. It’s been great (I think anyway 😊).
We will then be reverting to Endpieces.
Endpieces, as regular readers will know, consisted of comic pieces, animal videos, songs etc to provide a bit of relief after some of the horror stories we detail on this substack. Endpieces was run by Tenaciously Terfin, Liz Parker and myself and we are delighted to now have been joined by Becca Shambles, Petal and Jeremy Wickins. Please let us know if you want to join the Endpieces Club 😊
I have an Endpieces folder so Endpieces suggestions can be sent to me at any time from now even though Terf Island Discs will be continuing for the moment as explained above 😊
Onwards with Terf Island Discs.
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