The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is the largest professional association for pediatricians in the United States. The Covid era revealed that the AAP has abandoned its stated mission and has betrayed children everywhere.
How the American Academy of Pediatrics Betrayed Children Everywhere Read Journal Article
There are good reasons to object to the new Illinois program based on general principles. If sufficient resources are not provided to allow careful and precise identification of children in distress, it has the potential to be a disaster.
Beware Universal Mental Health Screening Read Journal Article
I’m working on a story that will try to debunk a nonsensical and specious claim made by the Alabama Education Association that “sixty-five” Alabama educators died from Covid in the first 18 months of the pandemic.
In Six Years, Have Any Healthy Alabama Students Died from Covid? Read Journal Article
Medicine must learn to operate in a VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity) world. The recognition of the importance of this is beginning, but it must be added to the clinical competencies at every step in the education of health professionals.
Embracing Ambiguity and Outliers in a VUCA World Read Journal Article
Really? It’s not well understood why and how the pandemic may be associated with development milestones for children? Not the pointless masking that hampered their ability to learn verbal cues? Not the school closures that stopped their learning?
Covid Lockdowns Devastated an Entire Generation of Children Read Journal Article
We can remind ourselves, and them: we already belong. Not to the algorithm, not to the audience, not to the machine—but to ourselves, to each other, to the earth, to whatever rhythm once made being human feel like enough.
The Golden Idol Machine Read Journal Article
My book is your guide to living freely in a world gone mad. It’s about laughing in the face of censorship, ignoring the establishment’s nonsensical rules, and embracing the global fight for free speech with true grit and resilience.
The Land of the Free…Until You Express an Opinion Read Journal Article
In sum, we have a number of institutions that have yet to be defunded as promised by President Trump, and we have students at those institutions who are subject to unjustifiable disparate treatment. So, what gives?
Why Are Taxpayers Still Funding These Injection Mandates? Read Journal Article
Our prime task is the unglamorous—and for many in this culture that worships action for action’s sake—unsatisfying task of circling back to things like love, compassion, friendship, touch, and sincere dialogue that lie at the core of being human.
Ideological Firewalls Work Quite Well…Until They Don’t Read Journal Article
I want to address a new strain of an existing challenge – emotional regulation. Imagine a 15-year-old boy and the challenges he has with impulse control. Now imagine a 13-year-old brain in that body. What would be the expected result?
The Kids Are Not Alright Read Journal Article
In February 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order prohibiting federal funding for educational institutions that mandate Covid-19 vaccines for in-person attendance. Medical schools reliant on federal funds may reconsider these pointless mandates, paeans to outdated orthodoxy.
Why Have Any Covid-19 Vaccines, 2025? Read Journal Article
We should not forget that one of the greatest risks of AI technology may be a degradation of the learning process itself, and thus a new intellectual dark age. It is up to teachers to avert such a catastrophic outcome.
Teachers Must Avert an AI-Facilitated Intellectual Dark Age Read Journal Article
