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James Tour, Ph.D., is a synthetic organic chemist at Rice University. He has about 650 research publications and over 200 patents. In 2015, he was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors. In 2014, he was named among the 50 most influential scientists in the world, as well as "The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds."…
A cable sent by US diplomats in Dhaka on April 6, 1971 to then Secretary of State William Rogers as the Pakistani military was carrying out a genocide in what was then East Pakistan, marked a defining moment for Washington's role during ...
New York Times, and once quoting the current University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins.” The banned book discusses the American Psychiatric Association’s classification of gender dysphoria from its recent edition of “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,” Anderson told the DCNF. “Amazon, curiously, still sells that,” the author said. “Gender dysphoria is listed in the most widely respected and consulted book on psychiatric disorders because it is a serious condition that causes great suffering.” “There is a debate, however, w...
March 03, 2021 5:00 PM ET Font Size: The Alabama state Senate voted Tuesday to criminalize performing gender transition surgeries or hormone therapy on minors who identify as transgender. Under the Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, doctors would be prohibited from treating Alabama minors with hormone therapy, surgery, or puberty blockers “intended to alter the minor child’s gender or delay puberty.” The bill would also require schools to let parents know if their child has the “perception that his or her gender is inconsistent with his or her sex” and establish crimina...