Debra W. Soh

Nov 15, 2023 | washingtonexaminer.com | Debra W. Soh

In recent years, Finland has led the way in curtailing the widespread professional recommendation of gender transitioning in minors. In 2020, the Scandinavian nation announced it would be prioritizing psychological interventions instead of affirmation for gender dysphoric youth, particularly those presenting with a post-pubertal onset. Doing so acknowledged the worldwide increase in adolescent girls and young women suddenly wishing to transition.

Nov 7, 2023 | washingtonexaminer.com | Debra W. Soh

Science, one of the world’s most prestigious scientific journals, published an article last week querying whether scientists should include "positionality statements" when publishing their research. The purpose of a "positionality statement" is to offer details about the author’s personal characteristics, such as their race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and geographic location, among others.

Oct 11, 2023 | washingtonexaminer.com | Stephanie Lundquist-Arora |Sean Durns |Debra W. Soh |Mike Gonzalez

GUATEMALA CITY — This weekend’s harrowing terrorist acts in Israel have made it all the clearer to Americans that President Joe Biden’s opening of our border has put the United States at grave risk. At least one Central American leader says he warned the administration years ago. Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei cautions us that we are being invaded, perhaps by terrorists. He would know.

Oct 10, 2023 | washingtonexaminer.com | Stephanie Lundquist-Arora |Sean Durns |Debra W. Soh |Mark Judge

In an interesting essay in Harper’s magazine, writer Justin E. H. Smith explores what he describes as "an annihilation of almost everything that once oriented us." Smith is talking about Generation X, those born between the middle of the 1960s and 1980. According to Smith, the world he grew up in has become so unrecognizable he has to see a therapist to handle the dissonance. Everything is digital, and there is no critical integrity or guardrails anymore.

Oct 10, 2023 | washingtonexaminer.com | Debra W. Soh |Elizabeth Stauffer |Tom Joyce |Daniel Nuccio

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, preprint servers such as the Social Science Research Network and medRxiv came to serve an important role in disseminating timely information from the labs of some of the world’s leading epidemiologists, infectious disease experts, and other researchers that would ordinarily take months to work through the standard peer review process. Undoubtedly, there were trade-offs.