Friedrich Nietzsche was among the first philosophers to wrestle seriously with the implications of Charles Darwin’s theories. In Daybreak (1881), Nietzsche considered the metaphysical...
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Kyle Giersdorf earned $3 million when he won the Fortnite World Cup. He was 16 years old. Suppose it’s after midnight and your son is playing video games. You tell him to turn off the game and...
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Eric Metaxas, author of bestselling biographies of Martin Luther and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, interviews Dr. Sax about Dr. Sax’s scholarly paper “Aus den Gemeinden von Burgenland“, in...
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Hans Frank was Adolf Hitler’s personal attorney. In Frank’s memoir, published seven years after his execution in 1946 at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Frank claimed to have...
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Stuart Varney interviews Dr. Sax about “The Collapse of Parenting”. This interview is fun! Click here to watch this video.
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A couple, returning from vacation, turns on the air-conditioning. The wife is overwhelmed by a terrible stench coming from the ductwork and is convinced that an animal must have died in the house....
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The Science Talent Search is the leading science competition for American high school students. It’s often referred to as “The Junior Nobel Prize.” According to a recent study, 83 percent of...
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Kyle was absorbed in a videogame on his cellphone, so I asked his mom, “How long has Kyle had a stomach ache?” Mom said, “I’m thinking it’s been about two days.” Then Kyle replied,...
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Compared with a teenager in Germany, a teenager in the United States is about how likely to be diagnosed with bipolar disorder? About forty times as likely See Martin Holtmann and colleagues,...
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In 1987, 34% of students who took the AP Computer Science exam were girls. What proportion of students who took the AP Computer Science exam in 2016 were girls? 23% Or to be precise, 23.3%. In 2016,...
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What proportion of American kids 12 to 15 years of age meet minimum standards for physical fitness, based on their ability to walk and run? 42% Over the past decade, rates of obesity have been pretty...
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In the early 1970s, 4% of American children 5 to 11 years of age were obese. In 2008, what proportion of American children 5 to 11 years of age were obese? 19.6% See Cheryl Fryar and colleagues,...
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Compared with a teenager in the United Kingdom, a teenager in the United States is about how likely to be diagnosed with ADHD? About 14 times as likely The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has...
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In 2017, what was the approximate female-to-male ratio among students who took the AP exam in Spanish Literature? 19 girls for every 10 boys To be precise: 17,082 girls took the AP exam in Spanish...
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Compared with children in Italy, children in the United States are about how likely to be on prescription antipsychotic medications such as Risperdal and Seroquel? About 90 times as likely To be...
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Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb interview Dr. Sax and Dr. Meg Meeker on The TODAY Show. This video is no longer available. A transcript is available here.
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If mom and dad installed monitoring software on their middle-schoolers’ phones, it would make a big difference. (Read article on The Wall Street Journal website) Earlier this year I visited a...
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Grow Up: Parenting Wars with John Stossel
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Psychiatry’s diagnostic bible has broadened the definition of mental illness to absurdity. (Read article on The Wall Street Journal website) The American Psychiatric Association released a...
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(Read this article on The New York Times website) A teenager complains of difficulty concentrating. The doctor is consulted. The teenager does not meet formal criteria for A.D.H.D., but the doctor...
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This video is no longer available. A transcript is online here. (Scroll down or search for “Sax”.) 1 million kids misdiagnosed with ADHD?
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Teen girls coping with drugs, alcohol, sexting (CNN) – If you have teenagers, the list of things to worry about seems to grow longer every day. It can be even more stressful if you have a teenage...
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View PDF » My commentary on the possible risks of PET triggered a hostile reply from Ralph Vasami, director of the trade group representing manufacturers of PET. You can read his letter, and my...
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Implications for best practice in the classroom View PDF »
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This video of Matt Lauer interviewing Dr. Sax on the TODAY Show is no longer available. It appears that NBC has taken down most videos of Matt Lauer’s interviews.
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(Read article on the NY Daily News website) When I first began writing prescriptions for children 22 years ago, it was unusual for a child to be taking powerful psychiatric drugs. Today it’s...
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(Read this article on The Washington Post website) When the final book in the “The Twilight Saga” series went on sale this month, 18 area Barnes & Noble stores were among the shops...
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Family physician, research psychologist, and author Dr. Leonard Sax explains why many of today’s young men and boys are unmotivated and uninterested in school and in life. He found five factors...
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(Read this article on The Washington Post website) The romantic comedy “Failure to Launch,” which opened as the No. 1 movie in the nation this month, has substantially exceeded pre-launch...
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Psychologist and family physician Dr. Leonard Sax, the author of “Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences,” talks with the...
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If their numbers in math and science don’t add up, blame schools, not brainpower. (Read this article on the LA Times website) True story: A distinguished Harvard professor suggests that women...
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(Read this article on the Washington Post website) I met Danny Sivert seven years ago. I was with him in June 2002 after his wife, Bette, was killed in a traffic accident, leaving him to raise their...
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ABSTRACT PURPOSE We wanted to survey physicians in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area regarding the frequency with which physicians, teachers, parents, and others first suggest the...
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Summary: Many scholars have argued that Nietzsche’s dementia was caused by syphilis. A careful review of the evidence suggests that this consensus is probably incorrect. The syphilis hypothesis...
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A response to Anne Fausto-Sterling Sometimes a child is born with genitalia which cannot be classified as female or male. A genetically female child (i.e., with XX chromosomes) may be born with...
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This article was originally published in The B’nai B’rith International Jewish Monthly in September 2000. You can read a PDF of the original article at this link for the complete article....
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