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Posts made in October, 2023

Why Do Kids With Type 1 Diabetes Take More Psychotropic Medication?

A new analysis found an increasing trend in psychotropic medication dispensation for Swedish children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes. The results from from 2006 to 2019 showed consistent higher use than kids without type 1 diabetes. read...

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FDA Approves Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine With SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant Lineage XBB.1.5

FDA has amended the emergency use authorization of the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted for use in individuals 12 years of age and older to include the spike protein from the SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant lineage XBB.1.5.That's a lot of letters but, just like the flu, if you have one of the big five co-morbidities, get it.If you never had the prior vaccine, this will be two shots, three weeks...

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The Invasive Data Collection Practices of Cars – Nissan Is The Worst

When you get in that expensive electric car, you are exposing your age, gender, social security number, religious beliefs, marital status, your race, if you are a citizen, even if you have a disability. Tesla says they don't sell your information to outside companies but they were also busted for sharing videos of customers internally, including kids, including nudity, so it's not secure.I am not...

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Men Don’t Go To The Doctor Enough

Health care in America is broken and the chief reason is the government. In 2009, when Obamacare became part of the President's agenda, I said we should just write out the check for trillions of dollars and nationalize the industry. My reasoning was that anything else would mean we have worse access and much higher cost.read...

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Maybe It’s Not Bad Science, It’s Just Banal

Bad faith science, outright modifying language to highlight benefit or harm for effect, is not new.It's long been common in claims about food and chemicals - glyphosate in breast milk, endocrine disruption homeopathy beliefs, annual fad diets etc. - but because journalists will state anything authoritatively if it comes from a journal, it's even become common in claims about climate change and...

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