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Jeffrey Brown/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychologists (AACN), the professional organization that sets standards and practices for the field of neuropsychology, has called for "the elimination of race as a variable in demographically-based normative test interpretation," the controversial practice widely known as race-norming. The move comes amid a firestorm of criticism following an ABC News investigation of alleged racial bias in the National Football League's landmark concussion settlement program. ABC News uncovered em...

Top neuropsychologists have called for the elimination of race-norming in clinical testing, after an ABC News investigation into the NFL's concussion settlement program.

Black Vaccine Hesitancy Rooted in Mistrust, Doubts By Saundra Young Feb. 2, 2021 -- Black, Hispanic, and Native American people are about 4 times more likely to be hospitalized and nearly 3 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than white people. Yet African Americans have nearly the lowest rates of vaccination among any ethnic group. In fact, white Americans are being vaccinated at a rate 3 times higher than Black Americans. New CDC figures show that of those who have received at least the first dose of a vaccine, 5.4% are Black people, compared to 60% who are white people. According t...

Yves here. This is the sort of post I very much like, since it made me smarter about a government procedure that Trump used actively, the 1996 Congressional Review Act. What surprised me was that Trump was the first President to use it aggressively, and that the Act is vague enough on key points as to be seen as legally grey. Yet Trump’s moves were never challenged in court! So much for Team Dem’s brand commitment to fighting. By Jan Ellen Spiegel. Originally published at Yale Climate Connections The obstacles the Trump administration has placed on environmental rulemaking and, by extensi...