Science

Laura B., V*ccine Survivor 6
- Science
- November 4, 2022
It’s a Catch-22 of many people with COVID-19 vaccine adverse reactions: While tasked with monitoring adverse reactions to the vaccine, health officials also often disregard or downplay those reactions. Vax survivor Laura B., of Rochester, Minnesota, feels stuck in that netherworld—injured by the vaccine, yet healthcare providers won’t recognize that her symptoms likely came from
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Forget the hysteria about ‘forced pregnancies.’ What about forced abortions?2
- Science, Family
- October 31, 2022
Blonde is a controversial recent film about Marilyn Monroe. It’s a dark and queasy film about sexual exploitation – the story of how a stunningly beautiful woman was chewed up and spat out by Hollywood. Even the positive reviews – and there aren’t many of them – say that the graphic sex in Blonde makes it hard to
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Cut the Calories and the Screens to Cut Some Weight 1
- Culture, Science
- October 28, 2022
Stand a random American on a scale, and odds are we’ll find someone overweight or obese. Increasingly, America is a nation of men, women, and children where the word husky is a compliment. Many statistics confirm this expansion of our waistlines: More than 42 percent of adults over the age of 20 are now officially
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Google and the Woke Morality Police Cancel Anti-Porn Apps 1
- Religion, Science
- October 27, 2022
In the latest skirmish in the cancel culture wars, Google is booting apps for fighting porn addiction off its app store. In a little-noticed move last month, the internet behemoth removed Covenant Eyes and Accountability2You from the Google Play Store. Google dropped them after journalists from Wired, a technology magazine, alleged that they violated Google’s malware
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Why I Don’t Trust the Medical System 18
- Science
- October 26, 2022
After dragging my feet for more than half a decade, I begrudgingly made a clinic appointment for a physical this year. Checking in and talking with a nurse, I then waited alone in the doctor’s examination room, daring to pull down my mandated mask. But then the doctor entered—wearing a pin listing her pronouns—and she
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A Wellesley Student Speaks Out 7
- Education, Science
- October 25, 2022
I was appalled, but not surprised, when on Saturday, September 24, the Dean of Students at Wellesley College, where I am a student, buried at the end of an email to the student body that all students at Wellesley would be required to receive a shot of the new bivalent Covid-19 booster. Then on October
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