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Are you still washing our hands a lot more these days?
01/08/2026

Are you still washing our hands a lot more these days?

A four-year study charting obsessive compulsive symptoms in the general population since the start of the pandemic finds a sharp increase that has since waned.

https://www.aging-us.com/article/206344
12/13/2025

https://www.aging-us.com/article/206344

Aging | doi:10.18632/aging.206344. Ramy Saad, Ricardo Costeira, Pamela R. Matías-García, Sergio Villicaña, Christian Gieger, Karsten Suhre, Annette Peters, Gabi Kastenmüller, Ana Rodriguez-Mateos, Cristina Dias, Cristina Menni, Melanie Waldenberger, Jordana T. Bell

On the misuse of language:
12/03/2025

On the misuse of language:

I recently gave a talk on vaccine communication, and the most common feedback I got was appreciation for the section on words that confuse people. I’ve written before how a lot of “misinformation” can more aptly be described as miscommunication — public health saying one thing, and the publi...

https://www.youcanknowthings.com/do-dogs-cause-autism
11/22/2025

https://www.youcanknowthings.com/do-dogs-cause-autism

On Wednesday RFK Jr.’s CDC updated their website to claim that “vaccines do not cause autism” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not definitively ruled out the possibility. On the surface, this may seem like a valid scientific statement. There have been dozens of studies inves...

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