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Every parent cringes when they hear that dreaded phrase: “I’m bored!” It always strikes at the most inopportune time—while you're trying to cook dinner or finally starting to fold that mountain of laundry you've been putting off for days. 

Dr. Chuck Dinerstein weighs in, in our latest video.  

Psychiatry was one of my early rotations as a third-year medical student just beginning clinical training. After years of exposure to science in the classroom and laboratories, its imprecision was unsettling.

Misguided COVID-minimizers like to say that COVID-19 is no worse than a cold that lasts a few days and then disappears without any sequelae. They’re so wrong, and the evidence of that continues to mount. 

The world has a misinformation problem.

As a new parent, I've rapidly discovered what a dangerous place the world is for children. It's an overwhelming realization at times.

It was a problem for years. First thing in the morning, I would shut off my phone alarm, open the Twitter app and begin scrolling through my timeline before reluctantly getting out of bed to be productive.

#This article is reprinted with permission of the author and the Cato Institute. The original blog post can be found here. 

I must be getting old because I don't know who some of these young whippersnappers are anymore. Apparently, a Canadian singer named Grimes (who happens to be dating Elon Musk) is somebody I need to pay attention to.

I’ve written in the past about anecdotal and case reports from “alternative or complementary” medicine arguing that these reports do not rise to what we would consider scientific trials.