There's Too Much Doom and Gloom in the Classroom nationalreview.com/magazine/2025/…

NEW: Parents of a 16-year-old teen file lawsuit against OpenAI, say ChatGPT gave their now deceased son step by step instructions to take his own life. The parents of Adam Raine say they 100% believe their son would still be alive if it weren’t for ChatGPT. They are accusing

Why evidence matters. Recommendations should follow the quality/certainty of evidence bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Very helpful discussion regarding medical ethics in gender affirming in minors, particularly regarding decision-making - autonomy, non-maleficence and beneficence. bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

On Aug 28, 2025, American Psychiatric Association issued a brief statement on X assuring the public of the efficacy and safety of psychiatric medications. What could a better statement have looked like? One that was trying to make some effort at repairing public trust? Here’s my attempt:

Statement on the Use of Psychiatric Medications, by Awais Aftab psychiatrymargins.com/p/statement-on…

Attitude networks as intergroup realities: Using network‐modelling to research attitude‐identity relationships in polarized political contexts - Lüders - 2024 - British Journal of Social Psychology - Wiley Online Library bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bj…

"Sleeping on it" is scientifically proven: People solving hidden-rule puzzles had 59% insight after sleep vs 23% staying awake the same duration. Sleep reorganizes information, revealing hidden patterns your waking brain missed.

The Role of Rumination in Linking Virtual Social Networks and Parent-Child Relations to Gender Dysphoria in Adolescent Girls jhmi.sums.ac.ir/article_51152.…

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In 1992 Peter Ratcliffe received this rejection letter from Nature. His findings were not "a sufficient advance in our understanding". 27 years later he won the Nobel Prize for the same discovery. Don't lose faith in the things you believe in.

The New Atlantis: What Comes After Gender Affirmation? thenewatlantis.com/publications/w… via The New Atlantis

It's here! Free CME for pediatricians and more, with high quality information about pediatric gender medicine. segm.org/media/segm-lau…

The comments on yesterday's excellent NYT article on women who take high levels of T (link below) are fascinating and revealing. Here's part of one, reflecting a widespread misconception: "Hormones are pretty safe as far as drugs go: they aren't toxic, we have biological pathways

Nature used to be the world’s most prestigious science journal. Now it’s one of many accused of favouring authors because of their identity group rather than the excellence and importance of their science. hxstem.substack.com/p/why-i-no-lon…

Excellent article outlining the suppression of evidence and debate and institutional capture in pediatric medicine. Hopefully the tides are turning. journalofcontroversialideas.org/article/5/2/298

Bingeing TikTok reels may be hazardous to your well-being. 71 studies, >98k people: The more short-form videos teens and adults watched, the more they struggled with attention, self-control, and stress and anxiety. Read a book. Watch a movie. Long live longform.

Puberty triggers a complex cascade of events in the brain that are critical...particular to the development of executive function, social learning, memory, new learning, emotional regulation. So there is very good reason to be concerned about any treatment that might interrupt...

Wonder if Jack Turban MD 🧠 read the full report. This on page 26.

This is a textbook example of publication bias. cochrane.org/authors/handbo… How could you trust the science if only one side of the evidence gets fast-tracked while the other is delayed or sidelined? When critical analyses face higher publication barriers than supportive ones, we