Weekly News Roundup
February 9, 2015
Colin Adamo, creator of the website Hooking Up & Staying Hooked(HUSH), wants to change how heterosexual teenage boys learn about sex.
  

Namely, the 26-year-old, who helped organize Sex Week at Yale while a student there, offers the opposite of a pickup artist guide. One the website, he provides practical dating and, of course, hookup advice, such as, "Whenever you get resistance move your hand away from where it's landed. Only touch where she wants you to and soon enough she'll urge your hands to travel further. Try prematurely for a handful and she'll have you put to the curb."

Salon, February 7, 2015

The study's surprising results: When doctors assumed parents would be OK with vaccines, they were. More than 70 percent had their child vaccinated.

On the other hand, when physicians were more flexible and allowed for discussion, most of the parents - 83 percent - decided against vaccination.

"It was quite a difference," Opel says, "just based on how the doctor began the conversation."

NPR, February 7, 2015
Examining the Anti-Vaccine Movement and Religious Laws

 

One reason that members of some Christian denominations do oppose vaccination is over the use of cells from aborted embryos in the production of the rubella vaccine, and some other viral vaccines, back in the 1960s. 

Churches that believe in faith healing, or in the general reliance on God and divine providence rather than on science, may also oppose vaccines. In addition, some conservative Christian groups have opposed the HPV vaccine because they see it as giving permission to young women to engage in premarital sexual relations.

Algemeiner, February 8, 2015
Why is autism more common in boys? 
Israeli scientists may have it figured out
Research indicates that the gene crucial to brain development differs in its impact on the brains of each gender.

 

The research indicates that the reason autism is more common among boys, and Alzheimer's more common among women, may be because the gene, known as ADNP, which is crucial to brain development, differs in its impact on the brains of each gender. The researchers stress that these differences will have to be taken into account when developing potential remedies for these and other problems.

Haaretz, February 9, 2015

 

Ever since the small measles outbreak started popping up in parts of the country, doctors have been more insistent on parents vaccinating their kids. However, it's not just small kids physicians seem to be worried about. Doctors say parents also need to get the HPV vaccine for their teens.

CBS, February 8, 2015

 

A new paper released this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research seeks to understand the origin of dishonesty, gendered or otherwise -- and how we can learn to curb it.

 

The dark side of human impulse, researchers found, may start with parenting decisions: Moms and dads monitored in a recent Chicago field experiment were significantly more likely to cheat in front of boys than girls.

Washington Post, February 3, 2015

 

Vaccinations have become a political wedge issue and may have opened up a new front in the GOP culture wars. The science of vaccinations is straightforward: Public health officials point to extensive research showing vaccines protect the common good. But the politics are far less clear, as comments from likely 2016 GOP hopefuls like New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and other Republicans have laid bare.

MSNBC, February 3, 2015

The unfolding controversy threatens to turn vaccinations into an election issue.

The Huffington Post 
quickly rounded up the rest of the potential GOP contenders' positions on vaccines. And the New York Times reported that the debate is posing a challenge for Republican candidates, "who find themselves in the familiar but uncomfortable position of reconciling modern science with the skepticism of their core conservative voters," similarly to issues related to climate change
Think Progress, February 3, 2015
Vaccines and what we owe to our neighbors

Whether hipsters or home-schoolers, parents who don't vaccinate are free riders. Their children benefit from herd immunity without assuming the very small risk of adverse reaction to vaccination. It is a game that works - until too many play it.
Washington Post, February 2, 2015

UK: Should ALL boys be circumcised? Some experts say yes - but are they ignoring worrying risks? 

  • Medical experts are increasingly divided over male circumcision
  • It has been practised for centuries by they wonder if it should continue
  • U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend it for all boys
  • But research shows no link between circumcision and the risk of STDs

Circumcision has been practised for centuries, with the earliest evidence dating from the time of the pharaohs. Yet it's become a highly controversial procedure, and one that stirs strong passions - the actor Russell Crowe famously caused a Twitter storm in 2011 when he described the procedure as 'barbaric and stupid'. He later apologised.

Daily Mail, February 2, 2015


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