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Jake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC getting a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience. He holds a BS and MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. If a volcano were to erupt Pompei-style in Central Park, his body would be preserved in a scoliotic posture over his lab desk. Archeaologists would later conclude that he spent most of his day training rats to perform tricks, until he went blind building electrical equipment by hand using a dissecting microscope. But, still, he died happy...because science is cool.
Pure Pedantry is a blog about science -- social sciences and otherwise -- as well as academic and scientific culture. No one can live on science alone, so I also like to dwell on pop culture, periodically explore the humanities, and indulge in other types of geeky goodness.
DISCLAIMERS: 1) Jake Young is not a licensed physician (yet). He is merely a medical student. The information published on this site is not intended for use in medical decision-making. Please seek advice from a licensed, medical professional before making any health decisions. 2) The opinions expressed are my own. They do not represent the views of SEED magazine or the educational establishments I currently attend or attended in the past.
Category: Reproduction, Birth Control, and Abortion Politics
Yet another piece of evidence for the futility of abstinence education. Masters et al., publishing in the journal Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, show that an adolescent's attitude about sex is a much stronger indicator that they will actually...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:28 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Reproduction, Birth Control, and Abortion Politics
The demographic transition -- the tendency for richer societies to have fewer rather than more children -- is, I think, most often attributed to social causes. For a variety of reasons -- because each child costs more, because they are...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:25 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Ethics
The NYTimes published two articles about abortion in the last couple days. The first was a review by William Saletan of the book Embryo, A Defense of Human Life by Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen. The second was an...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:33 AM • 8 Comments •
Category: Sex
This question came down the pipeline from the SEED overlords: Why don't they make a birth control pill for men? The short answer is that they do make various methods of contraception for men, but most of the more effective...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:00 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Reproduction, Birth Control, and Abortion Politics
The US government spends millions domestically and billions internationally on abstinence-only education with the intent of lowering the transmission of STIs such as HIV and limiting unwanted pregnancies. Yet abstinence-only education is demonstrably ineffective. The alternative called abstinence-plus education clearly...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:56 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: TV
Boooo, I say! FOX and CBS have rejected a commercial for Trojan condoms on the grounds that they believed the ads stressed pregnancy prevention over disease prevention. From the NYTimes coverage: Fox and CBS both rejected the commercial. Both had...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:01 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Reproduction, Birth Control, and Abortion Politics
The NYTimes has an interesting article on the increasing amount people are willing to pay for donor eggs: A survey published this month in the journal Fertility and Sterility, "What Is Happening to the Price of Eggs?" found that the...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:16 AM • 14 Comments •
Category: Reproduction, Birth Control, and Abortion Politics
If you read the statistics, it isn't difficult to question the effectiveness of abstinence-only education in schools. It is about as effective as telling a three-year-old to not eat that big cookie on the table and then leaving the room...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:49 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Reproduction, Birth Control, and Abortion Politics
It is going to be a big day of other people's work because I don't have time to post anything of my own. However, that doesn't mean the day is news-free. The Supreme Court issued a decision today upholding the...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:38 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Reproduction, Birth Control, and Abortion Politics
Americans are not waiting until marriage to have sex: More than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study. The high rates extend even to women born in the 1940s,...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:18 AM • 4 Comments •
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