Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Sunday, March 01, 2026

Medical Associations Trusted Belief Over Science on Youth Gender Care

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American advocates for youth gender medicine have insisted for years that overwhelming evidence favors providing gender dysphoric youth with...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Study on treatment of gender dysphoria goes unpublished over political concerns

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An influential doctor and advocate of adolescent gender treatments said she had not published a long-awaited study of puberty-blocking drugs...
Saturday, April 08, 2023

The Guardian: Why don’t whales get cancer?

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Read it here . I am by no means an expert on aquatic mammals and am therefore open to correction from anyone more knowledgeable. However, I ...
Monday, October 24, 2022

UK: Most children who think they’re transgender are just going through a ‘phase’

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Most children who believe that they are transgender are just going through a “phase”, the NHS has said, as it warns that doctors should not ...
Monday, September 13, 2021

Didn't I see this in a movie?

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Ten thousand years after woolly mammoths vanished from the face of the Earth, scientists are embarking on an ambitious project to bring the ...
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Tuesday, March 02, 2021

Miami's new plan for climate change and rising sea levels

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It looks like a lot of crossed fingers and hoping for a best case scenario. I live in south Florida, on the other coast, about 20 miles from...
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Thursday, November 19, 2020

Worries are rising over COVID deniers and anti-vaxxers

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Story here . This could be a problem, but I think it's manageable. There are some people who subscribe to pseudoscientific beliefs and o...
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Tuesday, June 09, 2020

Contra Conspiracy

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Ignore the conspiracy theories: scientists know Covid-19 wasn't created in a lab . There is a lot to be upset with China over, includi...
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Friday, October 18, 2019

More on the state of academia

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A world-renowned expert in animal bone identification has lost her position at the University of Victoria (UVic), she believes for telling ...
Tuesday, October 01, 2019

Eat Less Red Meat, Scientists Said. Now Some Believe That Was Bad Advice.

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The evidence is too weak to justify telling individuals to eat less beef and pork, according to new research. The findings “erode public tru...
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Friday, February 23, 2018

Wilbur Ross wants to turn the moon into a gas station

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Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told CNBC on Thursday the future of commercial space projects depends on colonizing the moon. "I thin...
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Monday, February 05, 2018

Orthodox Religion, Unorthodox Medicine: The Rise of Romania’s Christian Doctors

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A new breed of Romanian doctors wants to place faith at the heart of their practice, alarming those who believe religion and medicine do not...
Thursday, October 01, 2015

Let's Not Move to Mars

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IN the early years of the 20th century, zeppelins filled with flammable and explosive hydrogen were all the rage in Germany, a reckless ...
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Saturday, February 28, 2015

Are we alone? Do we want to know?

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It was near Green Bank, W.Va., in 1960 that a young radio astronomer named Frank Drake conducted the first extensive search for alien civili...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

More Evidence of Global Warming

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All 50 states are currently experiencing sub-freezing temperatures. Yes, even Hawaii.
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Friday, May 16, 2014

Climate change: the science is not settled. It's all over the place as greedy opportunists scramble for cash

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Until now I’ve never written about global warming. That’s because I’m a coward. I don’t want “climate experts” sneering at me because I dar...
Friday, February 21, 2014

The Myth of ‘Settled Science’

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I repeat: I’m not a global-warming believer. I’m not a global-warming denier. I’ve long believed that it cannot be good for humanity to be ...
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Sunday, January 05, 2014

US to rescue global warming scientists trapped in ice...

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WASHINGTON  - The United States is sending a heavy icebreaker to help free a Russian ship and a Chinese icebreaker gripped by Antarctic ic...
Friday, January 03, 2014

The Russian Church Condemns Surrogate Motherhood

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An official document has been issued by the Holy Synod strongly condemning the practice of surrogate motherhood and placing restrictions on ...
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Attention All Preppers

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On a cool September night in 1859, campers out in Colorado were roused from sleep by a “light so bright that one could easily read common p...
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