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”
It has recently become the fashion to kick Cold-War liberalism in the shins. Samuel Moyn, an influential Yale professor, is making an entire career out of this. And one also has Quinn Slobodian, who energetically blames neo-liberals for the revival of fascism.
According to a new study, Greenland temperature stations indicate an abrupt 2.9°C warming trend from 1922 to 1932 (10 years) that was nearly identical to the 3.1°C warming trend from 1993 to 2007 (14 years). [emphasis, links added]
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
Marc Morano of climatedepot.com is joining a self-declared ‘Unofficial U.S. Delegation’ as the The UN climate summit, COP30, kicks off next week in Belém, Brazil — from November 10-21 — deep in the Amazon rainforest.
Many people involved in the climate debate do not seem to understand how big the planet is, how slowly inexorable ocean currents and other geological phenomena are or, well, scale generally.