“Cultural Differences in Response to Pain” revisited
I was sent this viral image about ethnicity and pain management: Tracing the source of this, it comes from a 2017 blogpost, which cites an article in NYPost. The complaints…
Newest releases from Nucleus and Herasight
Things are moving fast in the embryo selection sector. There was never really any technological barriers here the last 10+ years, just the usual social taboos and various incompetent people…
How much should we trust medicine? Review of Medical Nihilism (Jacob Stegenga)
There's a few main types of broad-side science criticism: Lowbrow religiously motivated typically focused on denial of biology (evolution) but sometimes expanding widely Verbal tilt philosophy, usually some brand of…
There is no autism epidemic, and autism is not caused by paracetamol anyway
In the latest genius move, the Trump administration has claimed that the commonly used painkiller paracetamol (Tylenol, Panadol, acetaminophen, various other names) causes autism. As we have seen however, there…
US BMI/obesity declined, but was it due to GLP-1?
In tech circles, there has recently been many people cheering for the apparent success of Ozempic-like drugs (GLP-1 agonists) in finally reducing the American obesity rate. More and more variants…
Bedsharing/cosleeping and SIDS
There is probably going to be a lot of baby-related science posting. You will have to forgive me. On the other hand, my own reader survey shows that the fertility…
Babymaxxing
And so the day came, August 12, our first child joined the world: Given how great early life interventions work, I started immediately with important topics like British history: Kidding…
Proper embryo selection just landed
Today is an exciting day. First, the HHS announced a more open data policy (in the direction of my suggestions), and second and more importantly, a new company just went…
What doesn’t explain the post-COVID fertility decline?
I've been writing about fertility for a while. Of recent interest is the COVID or post-COVID fertility decline. Birth Gauge compiles the most up to date TFR (total fertility rate)…
What is dangerous for pregnant women?
Remember to participate in the 2025 readers survey! There's a very large literature on the outcomes of children to mothers who did X. The problem with most of these is…
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