The Skeptical OB

I generally agree with NY Times columnist Frank Bruni, but not this time. According to Bruni, The Democrats Screwed Up. [pullquote align=”right” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]Republicans won because they were willing to betray American law and Constitutional principles.[/pullquote] Despite all the discussion of demographic forces that doomed the G.O.P., it will soon control the presidency […]

In the aftermath of this election I am afraid of so many things. I am afraid that my beloved country will move backwards and retreat from the vaunted American respect for minorities, immigrants, the poor and the disenfranchised. [pullquote align=”right” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]This election was not democracy in action; it was nascent fascism […]

Natural parenting is a backlash to women’s emancipation. Grantly Dick-Read was painfully honest that he created the philosophy of natural childbirth as a way to keep women at home; only there could they find true happiness by fulfilling their biologic destiny, and then they would stop agitating for political, legal and economic equality. [pullquote align=”right” […]

Most attachment parenting advocates are strongly opposed to the sleep training method known as “cry it out,” abbreviated CIO. According to Darcia Narvaez, PhD: With neuroscience, we can confirm what our ancestors took for granted—that letting babies get distressed is a practice that can damage children and their relational capacities in many ways for the […]

Anti-vaxxers love bibliography salad. They are constantly clogging the comments sections of my vaccine pieces with citations they have carefully cut and pasted from other anti-vaxxers. As usual, they flatter themselves by imagining that it shows how knowledgeable they are. Sadly for them, it merely confirms their ignorance. That’s because merely being published in a […]