Medical Science

Three times “science” was completely wrong and eventually did a 180 - Scientific American

“First, how much are vaccination rates really falling? Second, is our new health and human services secretary, longtime vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr., making people more wary of vaccines? Third, where might we go from here? And, finally, should you cancel those playdates?” - The Dispatch

“The study found that 87% of evangelical clergy said they would encourage their congregants to seek help from a mental health professional when suffering from depression. (85% of Black Protestants, 97% of mainline Protestants and 99% of Catholics agreed.)” - RNS

“That’s according to the findings of a new, large study that was published … by JAMA Network Open and build upon numerous other recent studies concluding that any amount of alcohol consumption is linked to significant health risks.” - WebMD

(Hat tip: P&D)

The Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine (SEGM) highlighted this German finding, saying it ‘poses a formidable challenge to the presumption of permanence of gender dysphoria in adolescents and young adults.’” - Daily Citizen

“it is not only pastors like MacArthur who embrace the medical-moral divide. Advocates and clinicians in the mental health world do also. Sometimes…advocates will state that mental illness has nothing to do with character, weakness of will, or anything else that sounds moral” - Mere Orthodoxy

“The professors also maintained that ‘sex assigned at birth’ can also suggest that there is no objective reality behind ‘male’ and ‘female,’ no biological categories to which the words refer.” - CPost

“Overall, 57% of Americans say science has had a mostly positive effect on society. This share is down 8 percentage points since November 2021 and down 16 points since before the start of the coronavirus outbreak.” - Pew

“Earlier this year, a joint effort …resulted in the creation of synthetic embryos using only stem cells. However, the latest achievement is being hailed as the first ‘complete’ embryo model” - Relevant

“the prophets of Ozempic are afflicted with a kind of myopia that requires its partisans to ignore subjective experiences of desire. They imply that we must dismiss any notion that our desires or their consequences can be managed by the will, intellect, or a ‘higher power’ ” - Law & Liberty