In North America, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) holds enormous influence over how children’s medical care is shaped. Its public positions and policy priorities steer the direction of pediatric practice, often setting the tone for what’s considered standard care
Climate Aid is “spaffing taxpayers’ money up the wall”, the shadow energy secretary has said. Claire Coutinho said that an £11.6bn budget meant to help fight ‘climate change’ had become “a bureaucrat’s dream and the taxpayers’ nightmare”
In this adapted excerpt from “How to Change a Memory,” author and neuroscientist Steve Ramirez recounts the events that led him and his colleagues to discover memories could be artificially controlled in rodents by zapping their brains with lasers
Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock reacted to the Trump Administration’s Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education by saying the university would accept no new grant money, that professors would be returning what monies they now had, that the university would accept no federal funds of any kind, that they would ban its students from accepting student loans (all are backed by the federal government), they would refuse all federal and state favors, tax breaks, and any and all other special considerations. Just kidding!
A major new Neurology study analyzing more than 4.5 million U.S. adults has uncovered a striking trend: self-reported cognitive disability—difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions—has surged by 40 percent over the past decade
Here’s another scare story about ‘horrid bugs’ and viral contagion, As regular readers of PSI will know, many more doctors, scientists and researchers are questioning the virus theory narrative, which they argue, could merely be the body’s natural and regular detox process. Read and make up your own mind
This is a tale of two Bills. Both Bills went to Harvard. Both have Harvard-size egos. Both are published authors and have large audiences. Both are Baby Boomers. (Bill McKibben is 64. Bill Gates is 70.) And both Bills are among the highest-profile Americans in the debate over climate and energy policy
A new Journal of Infection and Public Health paper published this month by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) scientists reveals an unprecedented rise in bird flu–related research worldwide—and predicts that publications on avian influenza will nearly double by 2030, marking what the authors call “accelerating growth” in the field
An international congress hosted by Artsen Collectief (Netherlands Doctors’ Collective) was convened on October 25 and 26, 2005, in Driebergen, Netherlands, and was attended by both an international panel of invited speakers and a sold-out audience
While this article is outside our normal remit, your editors feel it is important for readers to understand the extent of the bias inherent in the BBC, particularly in the field of science
Recent observations of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS show that it has developed a faint blueish hue, hinting at a potential color change. This is the third time experts have seen the comet’s coloring shift since it was discovered
With the ‘net zero’ fantasy falling to pieces, the faces of those attending COP30 will be as long as the local eight-mile highway that cleared 100,000 mature rainforest trees to help speed the 70,000 climate cultists on their way
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) warned four companies last week that it may take action against them for selling unapproved prescription fluoride supplements for use by children under age three or older children at low or moderate risk of tooth decay