U.S. House Oversight Committee Releases Report on ‘Misconduct, Retaliation, and Obstruction at the Transportation Security Administration(TSA)’
Persistent misconduct by managers at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) often goes unpunished and whistleblowers who report it as well as airport safety risks are penalized by senior officials, a bipartisan congressional investigation has concluded. The multi-billion-dollar government agency created after 9/11 to secure the nation’s transportation system operates under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and has around 65,000 employees. For nearly a decade Judicial ...
Study: ADHD Linked to Parkinson’s Disease
Researchers at University of Utah Health found that ADHD patients had an increased risk of developing Parkinson’s and Parkinson-like diseases than individuals with no ADHD history. The results are available online on September 12 in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology. “Parkinson’s disease is commonly thought of as a neurodegenerative disease associated with aging,” said Glen Hanson, D.D.S., Ph.D., professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology and School of Dentistry at ...
Study: Raising Kids With Religion Or Spirituality May Protect Their Mental Health
A new study from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health finds that kids and teens who are raised with religious or spiritual practices tend to have better health and mental health as they age. But not to worry if you’re not a service-attender. The research, published last week in the American Journal of Epidemiology, finds that people who prayed or meditated on their own time also ...
Censorship Report: 96 Percent of Google Search Results for ‘Trump’ News Are from Liberal Media Outlets
(By Paula Bolyard) Is Google manipulating its algorithm to prioritize left-leaning news outlets in their coverage of President Trump? It sure looks that way based on recent search results for news on the president. Conservatives and Trump supporters have for the last several years questioned whether Google was deprioritizing conservative news sites, hiding them from users who utilize their search engine. Google has maintained that all outlets ...
New Study Finds Sucralose Is Metabolized and Stored in Your Body
Needless to say, the industry has vehemently defended sucralose (and all other chemical sweeteners), stating that it rapidly passes unmetabolized through your body and therefore has no biological effects. Alas, recent research has punched yet another giant hole in the argument that sucralose is a biologically inert chemical, showing it is in fact metabolized and that it accumulates in fat cells. The study in question was ...
Washington Post Reports that Facebook Now Rating Trustworthiness of Users with a Social Score (similar to China’s Sesame Credit)
On August 21st, 2018 the Washington Post reported that Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users as a part of the effort to tackle “fake news.” The new trustworthiness score, which was first reported in the Washington Post, will work on a scale of zero to 1 and is one of thousands of new behavioral tools Facebook uses to monitor its users with. From the ...
Study: Peer Pressure and Prior Psychiatric Illness Linked to Gender Issues in Teens
A study has drawn criticism from transgender activists because it finds most teens “come out” as transgender after belonging to a peer group in which multiple friends identify as trans. Additionally, the study shows most young people announcing they are transgendered have already been identified with at least one mental health disorder. In the study – published at PLoS ONE – that focused on teens who are ...
Study: Geoengineering Could Lead To Lower Crop Yields
A new study has determined that spraying the skies with chemicals to combat global warming will likely come with the unintended side-effect of reducing crop yields. Researchers with the University of California, Berkeley, have published a new study which calls into question the scientific efforts to block sunlight via climate engineering, also known as geoengineering. Geoengineering is the deliberate and large-scale manipulation of the weather and ...
Study: Analysis of 1.2 Million Americans between 2011-15 Concludes 45 Minutes of Exercise 3-5X/Wk is the ‘Sweet Spot’ for Mental Health
It’s no secret that exercise is beneficial for your physical and mental health. Less clear, however, is how much exercise it takes to achieve meaningful benefits. Increasingly, we’re seeing that less is more when it comes to exercise, provided it’s done correctly and at high enough intensity. The latest research, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, seems to confirm this, finding that exercise three to five days ...
U.K. Parliament’s Foreign Aid Committee Releases Report: Says Rape and Sexual Abuse of Children by UN Officials and “Aid” Workers was “Endemic”
The United Nations is once again in the global spotlight for the most heinous crimes imaginable — the massive, systematic rape of innocent children perpetrated by child rapists working for the UN and various "aid" agencies. In a report released on July 31, 2018, the U.K. Parliament's committee overseeing foreign aid found that the rape and sexual abuse of children by UN officials and “aid” workers ...
