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From Caregivers to Social Reformers

WebThe Canadian Medical Association (CMA) has likewise called on physicians to refocus on social reform, as evidenced by the topic of its 2023 Health Summit, …

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Intelligence and Health Outcomes

WebPhoto by Mat Napo on Unsplash “Health disparities,” states the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “are differences in the incidence, prevalence, …

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Progressivism, Sexuality, and Mental Illness

WebThis means there is a strong correlation between people’s responses to three questions: sexual orientation, mental health, and political beliefs. In fact, a common …

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Dogmatism, Data, and Public Health

WebThe result has been an unqualified success in terms of public health—the prevalence of smoking declined from 45 percent in 1954 to 12 percent in 2023, with a …

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The Social Determinants of Health: Critique and Implications

WebShowdown in Champagne. In the tenth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes the epic 451 C.E. battle that pitted Attila the Hun …

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Scientology’s War on Psychiatry

WebTo understand Scientology’s antipathy towards psychiatry and psychiatrists today, we must make sense of Hubbard’s dramatic shift in attitude over this brief …

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Rethinking Health Disparities

WebReplacing Israel with Palestine: A Dangerous Delusion. The only plausible way forward for Palestinians is a commitment to peaceful coexistence alongside Israel. …

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Should We Consider Aging a Disease

WebA growing number of scientists suggest that aging is the (treatable) disease of which most cases of Alzheimer’s, heart disease, and cancer are symptoms. Over the …

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Masking Uncertainty in Public Health

WebThe case for or against a given intervention is strongest when multiple well-designed RCTs converge on the same conclusions. Between 1946 and 2019, 10 RCTs …

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A Contrarian View of Digital Health

WebSending millions more people to clinicians, creating a society even more fearful of lurking diseases, and systematically robbing people of the normal arc of life and …

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Can California Change

WebGetty. In October 2021, environmentalist activist and author Michael Shellenberger published his bestselling book San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin …

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A Trans Pioneer Explains Her Resignation from the US Professional

WebA month earlier, following Shrier’s interview, WPATH and USPATH had put out an odd joint letter in regard to the use of pubertal blockers and hormone therapy for …

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Will the New Vaccine Help Eradicate Malaria

Web5 Feb 2024 · 7 min read. Cameroon kicks off malaria vaccine rolls out, via World Health Organisation. On 22 January 2024, Cameroon was the first nation in the world to roll out …

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Ken Kesey and the Rush to Deinstitutionalization

WebKen Kesey (1935–2001) was a great admirer of manliness, a quality that would inform his countercultural indictment of America’s attitude toward mental illness, …

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Podcast #168: Jonathan Haidt on Instagram’s Mental Health …

WebAn Absurd Umbrella: Neurodiversity and the Autism Spectrum. Autism has become a catchall term to explain and dismiss the problem child. But it can also be …

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Identity Satiation

WebThis is identity satiation at work, and it occurs through this persistent introspection. It should not be surprising, then, that rumination—a persistent …

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The Damage Caused by Trans ‘Inclusion’ In Female Athletics: a

WebTwitter-posted image of Lazuli Clark (#23, right) competing on KIPP Academy Lynn’s girls’ high-school volleyball team. “A 6’ Tall, Bearded Trans Basketballer …

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Mental Health ‘Disabilities’ as Legal Superpowers

WebMisadventures of a Stalinist Stooge. Benn Steil’s engrossing new biography of Henry A. Wallace is a timely cautionary tale and a masterpiece of 20th-century American …

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Does Female Genital Mutilation Have Health Benefits

WebDoes Female Genital Mutilation Have Health Benefits? The Problem with Medicalizing Morality. Multiculturalism, religious freedom, the limits of tolerance; the …

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