"Going no contact with people who do not endorse your family culture is one viable path forward for building a new kind of family that abides by shared values" -Rin Reczek

Does TV count?

188. 2026 update: Among 68 women Nobel Prize winners (counting Marie Curie twice), the mean number of children is 1.5, the median is 2, 82% had 2 or fewer, 37% had none. Counts adopted and most step children. (New laureates: Carson, 0; Pillay, 2)

I wish, in vain, for clickbait headline writers to have trouble sleeping at night, but I wish for something worse (one thing, can you guess?) for clickbait headline writers who target people desperate to help suffering loved ones however they can, when the story is of no practical use to them

Thanks for sharing these 👍

Ruin a book by adding a word: The Odyssey (IMAX)

That said, I vehemently disagree with this post, particularly where university press offices (my original source) are concerned. It is ABSOLUTELY the author's fault if a university press office misrepresents their work. I've been teaching this for a decade in our NIH trainee bioethics courses.

Panicked headlines about a “fertility crisis” are not being driven by experts who understand fertility trends 👇 Next time you see such a headline, worth thinking about whose interests “demographic collapse” narratives serve

The window is closing on Dems avoiding billionaire capture

As best as I can tell, RFK Jr.'s latest antivax stunt runs counter to the WMA Declaration of Helsinki. Withholding HepB vaccination clearly does not meet any definition of clinical equipoise. Doing it anyway, overseas, is straight up colonialist medicine.

Apparently a daily occurrence

This mass shooting took place in a home, presumably a man massacring his family, so it's not front page news.

Is America in a demographic crisis? Demographers don’t think so. I conducted a survey of U.S. demographers, and this is what I found: 3%: “The low birth rate is a demographic crisis” 25%: "serious concern” 53%: "should be monitored, but no intervention necessary” 20% :“not a problem at all.”

Thank you for this important and surprising information

That's right, birth rates are an issue because of aging. Increasing birth rates, which you can't do anyway, would make it worse by increasing the number of dependents and reducing the productivity of parents. So, aging is an issue to deal with, not something to prevent by boosting births. IMO 👍

Yep, and it's a major social issue.

Thank you. Worth a try 👍

Special thanks to the friendly demographer friends who gave me feedback on the idea and the questions! Named in the paper.