Some 300 recent determinations of the distances to 12 nearby galaxies, one group, and three clusters by various authors using a variety of independent new methods are compared with the long and short extragalactic distance scales. All comparisons show that there is close agreement (within 0.3 mag in the distance modulus DM) betweeen the short-scale moduli and the new estimates by others at all distances from the Large Magellanic Cloud (Δ=0.05 Mpc) to the Coma Cluster (Δ=83 Mpc). The mean systematic difference ΔDM(short-others) is only -0.04±0.02 mag. There is little evidence for a progressive Malmquist bias in the short scale compared with all others over the whole distance modulus interval (18