CITY JOURNAL – We now have the most authoritative estimate of the value provided by wearing masks during the pandemic: approximately zero.
The most rigorous and extensive review of the scientific literature concludes that neither surgical masks nor N95 masks have been shown to make a difference in reducing the spread of Covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses.
This verdict ought to be the death knell for mask mandates, but that would require the Centers for Disease...
DailyWire.com – A Washington, D.C. grandmother on her way to chemotherapy treatment was reportedly accosted by a 15-year-old boy armed with a gun who demanded the keys to her car.
As she struggled with him, she called for help, prompting neighbors to assail the teenager so much that he left the scene in an ambulance.
“Next thing I know, he walked up talking about, ‘Give me your keys. I got a gun,’” the unnamed grandmother said.
“He...
American Academy of Neurology press release
MINNEAPOLIS – People who regularly use laxatives, a common treatment for constipation, may have more than a 50% increased risk of developing dementia than people who do not use laxatives, according to a study published in the February 22, 2023, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Researchers also found people who used only osmotic laxatives, a type of laxative that attracts water to...
THE NEW YORK TIMES – In the 1950s, researchers from across the globe embarked on a sweeping and ambitious study.
For decades, they scrutinized the diets and lifestyles of thousands of middle-aged men living in the United States, Europe and Japan and then examined how those characteristics affected their risks of developing cardiovascular disease.
The Seven Countries Study, as it later became known, famously found associations between saturated fats, cholesterol levels and coronary heart disease....
DAILY CALLER – Rachel Levine, who is now assistant secretary for health in the Biden administration, discussed the potential revenue that could be generated by a gender clinic social worker who could advocate for child sex change procedures in emails, reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation, with a pediatrician.
Dr. Rollyn Ornstein, a pediatrician at Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital, believed a social worker for the hospital’s gender clinic would generate enough revenue to...
It's Dumb, but They Have the Right | Opinion
ARI HOFFMAN, NEWSWEEK – I think the restaurant's gearing up to go more high end, and that's why they don't want the kids. And all the controversy surrounding this is a non-issue.
But this really sounds to me like this restaurant wants to be a place for dual income. No kids.
Somebody who's got a lot of money to spend on food, and wants to have a fine...
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The Spanish Parliament decided to promote leftists’ sexual degeneracy by accepting and decriminalizing zoophilia — a desire to have sex with animals — as long as the animal does not receive “an injury that requires veterinary treatment.”
“Bestiality will no longer be considered a criminal offense if there are no injuries to the animal. This is established by the new Penal Code through the new Animal Welfare Law promoted by...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Norfolk Southern’s half-baked plan to ignite chemicals released in its East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment made matters worse by producing a highly lethal gas now banned under the Geneva Convention, according to the latest lawsuit filed over the matter.
The class action lawsuit, filed last week by law firm Morgan & Morgan, claims that Norfolk Southern was having difficulties extinguishing flames resulting from the Feb. 3 derailment.
So the company instead decided...
FOOD SAFETY NEWS – If Homeland Security is investigating the meat industry for human trafficking as was reported, it could be a long time before anything specific about that is known.
But the Labor Department has now imposed monetary penalties totaling $1.5 million on a labor contractor who placed more than 100 children into hazardous meat industry jobs. Those jobs were far more widespread than first reported, turning up in eight states in meat plants...
The autism rate rose 300% in parts of New Jersey between 2000 and 2016, according to a recent Rutgers University study published in the journal Pediatrics.
(Joshua Paladino, Headline USA) Television host Chris Cuomo said he felt so angry about being fired from CNN due to his passionate Italian blood that he wanted to “kill everybody,” including himself, Page Six reported.
“It’s something I had to accept, because I was going to kill everybody, including myself. Things can consume you,” Cuomo said on Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci, a podcast hosted by the former White House communications director.
“Italians are so passionate,...
JACKSON, Miss. — The number of babies in Mississippi being treated for congenital syphilis has jumped by more than 900% over five years, uprooting the progress the nation’s poorest state had made in nearly quashing what experts say is an avoidable public health crisis.
The rise in cases has placed newborns at further risk of life-threatening harm in a state that’s already home to the nation’s worst infant mortality rate.
Q: "How can I reduce...