"As a coworker, she (Pelosi) has the right to have him (Trump) submit to an involuntary examination, but she has not. Anyone can call 911 to report someone who seems dangerous ... " – Dr. Bandy Lee
House Democrats have heeded Yale professor Bandy Lee before; are they listening now?
As impeachment proceedings go sidewise, Pelosi given a fresh option for hamstringing Trump
Jan 4, 2020
Salon – A Yale psychiatrist who has warned of the dangers of...
Washington (CNN) More than 200 members of Congress are urging the Supreme Court to reconsider -- if not overrule -- the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion nationwide.
Thirty-nine Republican senators and 168 members of the House of Representatives, almost all of them Republicans, signed a so-called "friend of the court" brief filed on Thursday by the national anti-abortion group Americans United for Life in connection with a challenge to a Louisiana...
Jan. 2, 2020
Food Dive – The parent company of Dr Pepper (now part of Keurig Dr Pepper) did not intentionally mislead consumers to believe Diet Dr Pepper promises weight loss or healthy weight management, and the company did not violate California's consumer fraud laws, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled.
Dive Brief:
The parent company of Dr Pepper (now part of Keurig Dr Pepper) did not intentionally mislead consumers to believe Diet...
"Somewhere between 11 million and 29 million people have in Latin America alone." – NIH
Tapeworms: How to tell if you have one
Dec 14, 2019
Dr. Manny Alvarez | Fox News
A tapeworm is a parasite that you can get if you eat the infected and undercooked meat of an animal.
So you could have gotten a tapeworm by eating something. It’s hard to know if you have a tapeworm on your own, but the most common...
You can't make this stuff up ...
In state that just banned organized coyote hunts, residents are being warned to look out for rabid coyotes
LYNNFIELD, MASS. (WHDH) - Massachusetts wildlife officials are urging the public to report any unusual animal behavior after a rabid coyote cornered a Lynnfield woman in her driveway earlier this week.
The coyote, which was captured on Monday, later tested positive for rabies, according to Animal Control.
Just 11 days ago:
State Bans "Cruel"...
Dec 20, 2019
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was honored in Philadelphia Thursday night, where she was inducted into the National Museum of American Jewish History’s Only in America Hall of Fame.
“She led the fight in the courts for gender equality,” said Nina Totenberg, a longtime friend of Ginsburg who also covers the U.S. Supreme Court for NPR.
She described the 5-foot-one-inch legal firebrand as a woman who changed...
"A study examining vaccine related attitudes reveals that our beliefs are so resilient that we effectively immunize ourselves to the opinions of others."
Immune to influence
campus.kn – To vaccinate, or not to vaccinate?
That is the question high on the list of polarizing issues of our time.
It’s one of those fraught topics that we can’t seem to stop arguing about. Online forums receive a lot of blame for risking public health by highlighting what they call...
This is DeathList 2020 |
Below is a list of 50 celebrities which the DeathList committee has selected for their likelihood to pass away during 2020.
DeathList has a few rules:
Candidates must be famous enough such that their death is expected to be reported by the media;
Candidates cannot be famous solely for the fact they are likely to die imminently and only 25 candidates can reappear from the previous year’s list.
2019...
On Joe Biden's first day as president, he would at age 78 immediately become the oldest to ever hold the office.
Is Joe Biden simply too old to be our president?
Biden signals to aides that he'd serve only one term
Advisers weigh the merits of a one-term pledge by the 77-year-old former vice president.
Dec 11, 2019
Politico – Former Vice President Joe Biden’s top advisers and prominent Democrats outside the Biden campaign have recently revived a long-running debate...