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Of all the crazy parts of our crazy system, the craziest part is where taxpayers pay for the research, then pay private companies to publish it, and then pay again so scientists can read it. We may not agree on much, but we can all agree on this: it is time, finally and forever, to get rid of for-profit scientific publishers.

Of all the crazy parts of our crazy system, the craziest part is where taxpayers pay for the research, then pay private companies to publish it, and then pay again so scientists can read it. We may not agree on much, but we can all agree on this: it is time, finally and forever, to get rid of for-profit scientific publishers.

... although mental illness puts individuals at a greater risk for becoming homeless, poverty and a lack of affordable housing remain the principal causes of homelessness...

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Homelessness has definite psychological effects, ranging from the detrimental effects of disrupted sleep to the deep psychological trauma inflicted by chronic stress, instability, and exposure to violence. Sleep problems are rampant among homeless people living on the streets or in shelters, where there is constant noise, crowding, and interruption of sleep. On the severe end of negative effects, violent physical and sexual attacks are much more likely to be made on the homeless than on the general population. For example, a sexual assault is twenty times more likely to be made on a homeless woman than on a woman in the general population. These violent assaults result in considerable emotional and psychological trauma in survivors, often leading to post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, suicide attempts, substance abuse and addiction, and further psychiatric symptoms. The death rate among the homeless is also three times greater than that of the general population, with many homeless people dying from preventable or treatable illnesses or from unprovoked violence. Homeless people with mental illness are even more vulnerable than other homeless individuals to violent attacks and death.

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According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, most homeless individuals with mental illness do not require institutionalization but would benefit from a supported housing program that offers mental health care and treatment. However, the number of affordable housing and community treatment services is insufficient to accommodate all the homeless who suffer from mental diseases. Additional resources are urgently needed so that the mentally ill homeless can have access to continuous treatment and therapy.

Fake references make Waite’s job as a librarian “so much harder,” she added.

“I expect this on the wider internet, but not in reputable scientific journals,” she told us. “This is a problem both for the information literacy teaching and the clinical literature searching I do to inform evidence-based practice in my hospital. It’s really worrying.”

I hope everyone who wants to be on permanent DST experiences an eternity of the first day of spring forward, never rested again

Emails from the Jeffrey Epstein files show the late pedophile trying to connect far-right tech mogul Peter Thiel and former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak on at least six separate occasions.

When the issue finally made it to court this year, the attorney representing the agency made a shocking admission: The DMV had no records of any investigation into a longtime reckless driver who killed a 23-month-old boy. The agency didn’t even appear to have held a hearing before deciding it was fine to let Linardos stay on the road.

Placer prosecutors’ quest for answers underscores how little action the state takes against deadly drivers.

Though state law authorizes the DMV to investigate drivers involved in a crash that kills or badly injures someone, agency records suggest the DMV rarely uses that power. Data provided to CalMatters show that, from 2022 through 2024, the agency opened just 3,300 investigations into drivers for their role in a fatal or serious-injury crash, a time in which California tallied nearly 56,000 such collisions.

Iran poses no remotely plausible threat to the United States, the Constitution prohibits presidents from going to war without congressional approval, and only 21% of Americans support Donald Trump’s attack on the country. He doesn’t care about any of that.

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Paul Jay talks with Matt Korda of the Federation of American Scientists about a range of issues with the U.S. nuclear modernization program, including the Sentinel ICBM, hundreds of billions in cost overruns, the Golden Dome fantasy, and an irrational and dangerous launch-on-warning. Most worrisome of all? The very same people making decisions about nuclear weapons in an uncontrolled arms race are all over the Epstein files.

Outrage is mounting in Georgia and across the United States as the federal government moves to dramatically expand Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention capacity as part of an escalating war on immigrants. In rural Social Circle, Georgia, local officials revealed that ICE intends to purchase a 1.2 million-square-foot warehouse and convert it into a massive detention complex capable of holding up to 10,000 people, a scale of incarceration not seen in the United States since the mass imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

The 21-year-old man shot dead after entering Mar-a-Lago with a shotgun and gas canister on Sunday was an “outspoken” Christian, a strong Trump supporter, and obsessed with the cover-up of the Epstein files, according to people who knew him.