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The student mental-health crisis is a myth

WEBThe results must have been disappointing. Released during Mental Health Awareness Week, it claimed that “20% of students consider themselves to have a …

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The new public health despotism

WEBThe hygiene state propagandises a “new normal” of social distancing and face covering. Here is an outlandish medical morality of social atomisation, presented as something …

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Covid experts: there is another way

WEBIndeed, for children, COVID-19 is less dangerous than many other harms, including influenza. As immunity builds in the population, the risk of infection to all – …

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We need to talk about ZOE

WEBView more on Instagram. 9,098 likes. Add a comment Tim Spector, centre. (Anthony Devlin/Alamy Stock Photo) Spector in a medical journal, that “there is a lack of long term …

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One in four Gen Z adults went to therapy as teens

WEBGeneration Z is going to therapy far more than any other age cohort, a new study has found. Among American Gen Z adults, over a quarter (27%) reported having …

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The secret life of gender clinicians

WEBAfter years of flying under the radar, the field of transgender health care is facing serious questions about whether minors can consent to life-altering interventions; …

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How Big Pharma monetised depression

WEBIndeed, the “economic burden” of depression — composed of workplace-related costs (absence from work), suicide-related costs, and direct-care costs — has steadily risen …

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There is no mental illness epidemic

WEBWe are in the middle of a treatment crisis, where there is not enough help to go around. Yes: about ‘one in four’ of us has a diagnosable mental health problem. But …

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The mental health crisis does not explain wokeness

WEBMarch 18, 2024 - 5:00pm. Today’s mental health crisis, especially among young people, does not explain the rise of “wokeness”. Rather, this cultural socialist belief system …

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New study: trans youth not at elevated risk of suicide

WEBA new study challenges the common assertion that gender-dysphoric youth are at elevated risk of suicide if not treated with “gender affirming” medical interventions. …

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Mental illness doesn't make you special

WEBBy Stuart Ritchie. Against this backdrop, Eloise is a marketing department’s dream come true: hers is a story of the young, beautiful, dysfunctional — and successful. Eloise is the …

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How TikTok glamourises mental health disorders

WEBThis is why articles that credit TikTok with helping users to recognise symptoms of disorders are so misleading. TikTok is not therapy. Unqualified, non …

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What does Palantir want with NHS data

WEBThe NHS — budget this year £182 billion — has the largest repository of health data in the world. It services around a million GP appointments a day, and over a quarter of a …

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There is no student mental health crisis

WEBLarissa Kennedy, President of the National Union of Students, said on BBC Radio 4’s PM that “we need to think carefully about the implications for mental health for students”, …

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NHS mental health app 'Kooth' is a danger to girls

WEBTeenage girls are coaching one another in gender ideology, in the guise of a “mental health” app supported by the NHS, according to Transgender Trend. “ Kooth” …

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The dangers of gender-affirmative care

WEBThe Biden administration recently announced a plan to ban “conversion therapy” and dismantle barriers to “gender-affirming care” for transgender-identifying …

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Let's be honest, the NHS is awful

WEBThe ultimate arbiter, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) has a woeful record: it had 103,965 enquiries in 2019-2020, of which it investigated a mere …

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Was my diabetes a symbol of moral failure

WEBOr indeed for their ethnicity. Yet for me, my own diabetes is a symbolic disease that perfectly embodies the moral failures of free market fundamentalism. The …

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Calorie counting menus will make eating disorders worse

WEBIn fact, a BEAT survey of individuals with experience of eating disorders found that 93% thought that calorie labelling on menus would have a ‘negative’ or ‘very …

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