The UK’s National Health Service bans puberty blockers for minors except for...
And with this decision, implemented on Friday (see NHS announcement below), the UK joins several other European countries—Finland, Norway, and Sweden—in removing adolescents’ access to puberty-blocking...
View ArticleAn international group of gender-change specialists urges caution for...
A bunch (21) of doctors and Ph.D.s from nine countries (Finland, the UK, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, France, Switzerland, South Africa, and the U.S.) published the following op-ed in Friday’s Wall Street...
View ArticleAnother merging of scientific with indigenous medicine, once again lacking...
Much as I’d like to believe otherwise, I see this as a “virtue-signaling” collaboration on the part of Roche, which aims to meld not just Māori medicinal practices with modern medicine, but also Māori...
View ArticleGuest Post: What a student pharmacist thinks about puberty blockers
Today’s post comes from Joseph Shen, a pharmacology student in Chicago. He has guest-posted here once before (see link below), and this week sent a contribution on what he’s learned about puberty...
View ArticleTwo examples of wokeness: cancer care and moccasins
CANCER CARE This first link below was sent by my partner in crime Luana, and is from John Lucas’s Substack site “Bravo Blue”. (Lucas was any Army ranger who became an attorney.) Lucas is decrying the...
View ArticleThe World Health Organization buys into woo
Or, if you want a rhyme, “WHO goes woo.” This article comes from Jonathan Jarry, a science communicator at McGill University’s Office for Science and Society. I was surprised to learn that the WHO, a...
View ArticleIntercessionary prayer fails again, this time with covid recovery
This is the third study I know of in which intercessory prayer (prayer by strangers for the afflicted) has failed to show results. The first two papers, whose titles are below (click to read) showed...
View ArticleDoctors Without Borders accused of complicity with Hamas
When Kelly Houle and I sold a copy of Why Evolution is True that had been autographed by many in the science/atheist/skeptic community (including several Nobel Laureates), and which had been...
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