Oct 16, 2025 06:13 PM
Consumer Reports’ latest panic: “Toxic” lead in protein powders
https://news.immunologic.org/p/consumer-...anic-toxic
Consumer Reports is at it again, this time, fear-mongering about lead in protein powders. Their latest headline and “report” concludes that various protein powders are filled with harmful levels of lead, and they use scary-looking graphics with percentages above 1000, to evoke that health anxiety they are so good at...
What comes after gender affirmation?
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publicati...ffirmation
Making transition the first-line treatment for children was a mistake, many health agencies now say. A growing group of psychologists wants to restore the therapeutic relationship...
EXCERPT: England’s National Health Service is in the process of re-training therapists to meet this moment. But in the United States, every professional organization in the mental health field — the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the corresponding groups for psychoanalysts, therapists, counselors, and social workers — all continue to stand behind the affirmative model: accept a patient’s gender identity as innate and off-limits for exploratory discussion, regardless of the patient’s age or general mental health.
This, says Paul Garcia-Ryan, executive director of a small but growing organization for mental health professionals called Therapy First, has put his colleagues in an unprecedented — and unfortunate — position, asking them to treat trans patients in an exceptional way that precludes the precepts of therapy itself: asking questions and exploring emotions so that their clients may better know themselves. In the context of young people, he says, the model disregards the fluid nature of adolescent identity formation... (MORE - details)
https://news.immunologic.org/p/consumer-...anic-toxic
Consumer Reports is at it again, this time, fear-mongering about lead in protein powders. Their latest headline and “report” concludes that various protein powders are filled with harmful levels of lead, and they use scary-looking graphics with percentages above 1000, to evoke that health anxiety they are so good at...
What comes after gender affirmation?
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publicati...ffirmation
Making transition the first-line treatment for children was a mistake, many health agencies now say. A growing group of psychologists wants to restore the therapeutic relationship...
EXCERPT: England’s National Health Service is in the process of re-training therapists to meet this moment. But in the United States, every professional organization in the mental health field — the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the corresponding groups for psychoanalysts, therapists, counselors, and social workers — all continue to stand behind the affirmative model: accept a patient’s gender identity as innate and off-limits for exploratory discussion, regardless of the patient’s age or general mental health.
This, says Paul Garcia-Ryan, executive director of a small but growing organization for mental health professionals called Therapy First, has put his colleagues in an unprecedented — and unfortunate — position, asking them to treat trans patients in an exceptional way that precludes the precepts of therapy itself: asking questions and exploring emotions so that their clients may better know themselves. In the context of young people, he says, the model disregards the fluid nature of adolescent identity formation... (MORE - details)
