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It's an Estrogenomenon!
The pendulum has been swinging on estrogen in menopause for a hundred years. It has swung back hard, with a little help from industry friends.
 • Jennifer Block
The NYT Confirms What Birth Activists Have Been Saying For Years
There was never an evidence base for continuous electronic fetal monitoring, yet it's nearly impossible for hospital maternity patients to avoid.
 • Jennifer Block
Why Is "Therapy First" Conflated With Conversion Therapy?
My latest piece in The New Atlantis speaks to the case before SCOTUS
 • Jennifer Block
Pediatric leaders on shaken baby syndrome convictions: we’re just doing medicine
Diagnoses of shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma have landed parents and caregivers in prison—some wrongfully, others questionably. What does…
 • Jennifer Block
What the American Academy of Pediatrics has to do with a Texas man on death row
Robert Roberson was convicted and sentenced for inducing "shaken baby syndrome." The science was never solid, yet the AAP keeps the diagnosis on life…
 • Jennifer Block
Documentary Exposes Politics Trumping Science in Child Transgender Medicine
The “follow the science” movement has an awkward relationship with medical evidence.
Published on The DisInformation Chronicle • 
The most heated and divisive issue of our time — in 18 minutes
Why a broad coalition is calling out gender treatments in youth
 • Jennifer Block
Unpopular Science
Unpopular Science
A space devoted to acknowledging, interrogating, and discussing evidence that complicates social, cultural, and even medical consensus.
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