Chris ChoGlueck

This two-bedroom ranch-style house will gradually become more livable as the ghost finds his rhythm. Reference #37290

Real Estate: Haunted By Teenager Learning To Play Drums

Bring back Witch Studies!

I am excited to be a Visiting Fellow at University of Pittsburgh's Center for Philosophy of Science @center4philsci.bsky.social! I'll be working on a new book about male contraception, double standards in medical research, and the future of masculinity.

Call for Papers!

We invite submissions for the upcoming workshop, Social Ontology and Empirical Inquiry: Conflicts and Connections (April 11-12, 2026).

Deadline: January 15th

Details: https://ow.ly/zOr550X9T2n

#PhilosophyOfScience #CallForPapers

D. "For most patients, the study reinforces what they already discuss in the exam room: that hormonal birth control is broadly safe, and decisions should be tailored to each woman’s needs and values."

C (cont): "...But because breast cancer is still uncommon in younger women, that works out to an increase from roughly 54 to 67 breast cancer cases per 100,000 women per year — about 13 extra cases per 100,000 women, or about one extra case per 7,800 users of hormonal contraceptives per year."

C. "The study reported that women who had used hormonal birth control had about a 24% higher rate of breast cancer than women who hadn’t. ..."

B. This new study showed that the "rise is modest and short-term, with [breast cancer] risk highest during current use and fading within five to 10 years after stopping."

A. "The massive study, which was conducted in Sweden and tracked more than 2 million teenage girls and women under age 50 for more than a decade, found that hormonal contraception remains safe overall, but also found small differences in breast cancer risk based on the hormones used."

Breast Cancer and Birth Control: A Huge New Study Shows How Science Can Be Distorted - KFF Health News The study sought to answer questions about how breast cancer risk differs by type of hormonal contraceptive. Doctors say the results won’t change how they counsel patients.

Communicating risks to patients is challenging, especially around the side effects of birth control. Which of these statements do you think is most informative?

C (cont): "...But because breast cancer is still uncommon in younger women, that works out to an increase from roughly 54 to 67 breast cancer cases per 100,000 women per year — about 13 extra cases per 100,000 women, or about one extra case per 7,800 users of hormonal contraceptives per year."

C. "The study reported that women who had used hormonal birth control had about a 24% higher rate of breast cancer than women who hadn’t. ...

B. This new study showed that the "rise is modest and short-term, with [breast cancer] risk highest during current use and fading within five to 10 years after stopping."

A. "The massive study, which was conducted in Sweden and tracked more than 2 million teenage girls & women under age 50 for more than a decade, found that hormonal contraception remains safe overall, but also found small differences in breast cancer risk based on the hormones used."

I also sometimes feel the my dog's leash runs the other way.

Banishing the Anger that Banished Me <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>“Get out of the car!” my father said sternly.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --...

Ever just want to push someone out a car?

Reflections on the ripples of angry fathers by Arianne MacBean

The recent Tylenol fiasco has inspired me to return to an unpublished dissertation chapter. Its about FDA Pregnancy Labels and why they abandoned the old A-B-C-D-X categories. Submitting soon! Thanks, RFK Jr.?

Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.

Transgender youth health care would be nearly banned everywhere under new rules : Shots - Health News www.npr.org/sections/sho...

We've been waiting for the other shoe to drop. Now we know its coming soon: Trump plans to ban Medicaid funds for youth's gender affirming care. This means less access to puberty blockers (that prevent dysphoria & severe distress) and ripple effects like closing gender programs.

Some people refer to New Mexico as ‘O’Keeffe Country’. I don’t | Aeon Essays Through her paintings, Georgia O’Keefe laid claim to New Mexico’s desert landscape. But it was never hers for the taking

In New Mexico we still hold a lot of colonial myths. Here's a very charitable critique of O'Keefe and her possessiveness from a Puebloan poet.

The list is too long for one post lol

Looking for a book, but want somethings that really corrupts the youth? Check out the banned books "quarantined" by the Department of Defense for promoting "gender ideology." Here's the full list of 595 titles banned at schools on military bases. (I recommend Heartstoppers!)

Five months into sabbatical, I finally feel rested. It's not like I haven't been working, but the release from teaching, service, and admin does wonders!

Dr. Jarosław Górnick has refused to subject patients to review and provides contraception for only 1 Polish złoty.

We need more models of courage like this!

Acts of omission: how Poland’s abortion law endangers women “They’ll wait for it to die or for something to start happening. If it doesn’t, then great, I can expect sepsis”.

In an act of civil disobedience, a Polish doctor is under review for prescribing emergency contraceptive pills. Unlike the rest of the EU, Poland requires a prescription review for the medication, and it has extremely tight restrictions for abortion.

Better Safe than Sorry? Tylenol, Pregnancy, and Ethics : The Hastings Center for Bioethics “Don’t take Tylenol,” President Trump told pregnant women last week. Despite his claims, there is no evidence that Tylenol taken during pregnancy

Better Safe than Sorry? Tylenol, Pregnancy, and Ethics: Misinterpretation of scientific evidence is not just an issue of reporting, but one of ethics. Bioethicists must call out this misleading, fear-based rhetoric | The Hastings Center for Bioethics www.thehastingscenter.org/better-safe-...

Louisiana is already a Maternity Care Desert, and This will only make our existing problems worse, especially health gaps by race and class. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33069560/

Planned Parenthood closes Louisiana clinics after 40 years due to financial and political pressure Louisiana's only two Planned Parenthood locations have closed after 40 years. The organization says the closure Tuesday is the result of political attacks and funding woes, following President Donald ...

Back home in New Orleans, the last Planned Parenthood in our state closed. We just lost one of the largest providers of testing for STIs, birth control, cancer screenings, and ultrasounds.