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10 Apr 2024, 10:42 am by Tom Smith
Given the increasing polarity among professionals on the matter, Dr Hilary Cass, a former President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, was employed by the NHS to conduct a review of the published evidence on the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones in children and young people with gender dysphoria. [read post]
9 Apr 2024, 3:40 pm by Rich
 Polar interrogatives work well in psychology tests, congressional hearings, and wedding vows, but they're not suitable for analyzing fair use. [read post]
9 Apr 2024, 2:22 pm by Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.
The testing was conducted using Polarized Light Microscopy (PLM) and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM). [read post]
8 Apr 2024, 5:36 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
“These contaminants have been found in the Arctic, on the slopes of Mount Everest, in penguins, polar bears, whales and seals,” said Andrews, who was not involved in the new study. [read post]
7 Apr 2024, 7:18 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The challenge here is that we’ve never seen a criminal defendant who inspires more polarized views than Donald Trump. [read post]
5 Apr 2024, 3:19 pm
The guy is running for president but claims that on the issue that he himself describes as one of the most polarizing in politics, he gives us puppy eyes and insists that he simply doesn’t know much about it. [read post]
4 Apr 2024, 6:32 am by Michael C. Dorf
In a guest post on this blog yesterday, Professor Sobkowski critiqued a NY Times op-ed in which Jesse Wegman quoted many of my fellow liberal constitutional law professors describing a "crisis" in the teaching of our subject. [read post]
4 Apr 2024, 5:01 am by Eugene Volokh
Over the past few years, however, the ability of these institutions to decide what counts as a true claim has lessened, due to a variety of familiar changes: first the rise of social media, and the democratization it has enabled of the public sphere; second, the decline in elite authority that this democratization and political polarization have accompanied; and third, but closely connected to this, the emergence of a strongly populist, anti-technocratic strain of democratic politics. [read post]
2 Apr 2024, 2:39 pm by Ned Foley
New Common Ground Democracy essay: “Ohio’s partisan polarization is so severe that stronger medicine than Alaska’s new electoral reform is necessary to avoid the election of extreme candidates in the Buckeye State. [read post]
2 Apr 2024, 9:12 am by Eugene Volokh
The article is here; the Introduction: As partisan polarization and social violence have risen in recent years, and public faith in governing institutions has declined, scholars across a remarkable range of academic disciplines have embraced concerns that one or more features of our current information ecosystem is functioning to widen cracks in core structures of U.S. constitutional democracy. [read post]
2 Apr 2024, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
  Thus, we cannot conclude that in 1980 a voter would have assumed the text encompassed a polarizing definition of privacy that included broad protections for abortion.The Court thus rejected Planned Parenthood's suit seeking a temporary injunction against enforcement of Florida's 15-week abortion ban. [read post]
1 Apr 2024, 8:06 am by Eugene Volokh
Part III consolidates those points and discusses the role of political polarization and the sharing of false information. [read post]
29 Mar 2024, 1:10 pm by Eugene Volokh
Misinformation has always been with us, but the endemicity of social media and the depth of political polarization in the United States and elsewhere has enabled falsehoods to be amplified, monetized, microtargeted, and spread around the world at unprecedented speed and scale. [read post]
29 Mar 2024, 8:20 am by Eugene Volokh
However, the idea that an unregulated marketplace of ideas leads to the greatest public good has been increasingly challenged as our politics has become more contentious, polarized, and burdened with conspiracy theories that could potentially spread unimpeded through online networks (e.g., Sunstein 2021). [read post]
29 Mar 2024, 5:55 am by jonathanturley
You need to bring sunglasses to avoid snow blindness and a good pair of gloves (I purchased a pair from the outfitter that I can use if Washington is it is ever plunged into a polar vortex). [read post]
27 Mar 2024, 7:38 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Rapid innovation offers the promise of a new era of prosperity, but instead risks exacerbating trust issues, leading to further societal instability and political polarization. [read post]
27 Mar 2024, 4:56 pm by Tom Smith
The polar vortex circling the Arctic is swirling in the wrong direction after surprise warming in the upper atmosphere triggered a major reversal event earlier this month. [read post]
In contrast, Tbilisi Pride, an LGBTQ+ rights organization, condemned the bill as “homophobic” in a statement on Facebook, reflecting the polarized perspectives within Georgian society. [read post]