Autistic Scientists Discover Link Between Childhood Vaccines and the Development of Normie Behavior A team of autistic scientists studying childhood vaccines have found a strong link to normie behavior. Their research revealed that the vast majority of children exposed to the 1/5

Autistic Scientists Discover Link Between Childhood Vaccines and the Development of Normie Behavior A team of autistic scientists studying childhood vaccines have found a strong link to normie behavior. Their research revealed that the vast majority of children exposed to the 1/5

World Athletics released guidelines, effective this week, that defines female as anyone with a negative SRY gene test. Read my critique of these regulations, from the perspective of a genetic counselor, at The DNA Exchange.

A recent ad campaign featuring Sydney Sweeney touting a pair of jeans has raised criticisms of eugenic overtones. Actually it's part of a long historical tradition of ads that utilize eugenic tropes to sell products.

This blogpost explores the connections between trump's pronatalist policies and eugenic ideologies from over a century ago. Early 20th century economists - and minimum wage laws - played a key role in trying to keep America White, or at least the right kind of White people.

The Genetic Basis For Guidance of The Better America Breeding Initiative to Enhance Society (BABIES): A (Very) White Paper Authors: Contract employees of the newly-created NIH Division of Genomic Efficiency (NIH-DOGE), the cost-effective replacement NIH Institute for the now defunct National Human…

The current administration's policies on healthcare, clinical and basic, research, and vulnerable populations will likely have profound negative effects on genetic counseling patients (and all patients, of course). This blogpost explores the impact in some detail.

Potential Implications of The Trump Administration Policies For Genetic Counseling – Part 1: The Impact on Genetic Counselors This is a two part blogpost. Part 1 focuses on the impact of Trump's policies on genetic counselors. Part 2, which I plan to post next week, will focus on the impact on…

What Can Genetic Counselors Do About The Rot, Corruption, and Hate At The Core of the Trump Administration? Let me start by saying that I am not sure yet about what genetic counselors should be doing to fight the racist, vile, despicable, UnChristian/unMuslim/unJewish/unEvery Other…

It’s Black History Month. To mark, honor and recognize this, the Journal of Genetic Counseling has updated our curated collection of manuscripts (I won’t name the person responsible given …), and it’s all free to read for the month! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... please read and share

Will The Updated NSGC Pedigree Nomenclature Guidelines Sink The Effort To Obtain Medicare Coverage For Genetic Counselors? Back on January 20th, American democracy and decency began to swalllow a poison pill of its own electoral making. The fallout has been all kinds of horrible, nationally and…

Decision-making is a key component of many genetic counseling sessions. In my recent DNA Exchange blogpost titled "Decisions, Decisions, Decisions," I discuss the difficulties that patients face in making often profound and life-altering decisions. thednaexchange.com/2025/01/08/d...

Decisions, Decision, Decisions Should I stay or should I go now?If I go there will be troubleAnd if I stay it will be double- From The Clash's "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" Working with patients as they make decisions is one of the core components of genetic counseling. It's not the only thing…