Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News

Drudge Retort

Menu

Subscriptions

Drudge Retort RSS feed RSS Feed

Links

Recent Comments

Recent comments from all news stories on this site. Users must follow the site's moderation policy. Personal attacks, profanity, abusive conduct and expressions of prejudice are not allowed. If you want to retrieve a comment of yours that was recently deleted, visit your user page and click the Moderation link.

Here have some pain-

Why the IQ Threshold Changed

1959 Threshold: The old threshold for mental retardation was set at an IQ of 85 or below. [1] (x.com)

1973 Change: The American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) lowered the cutoff to an IQ of 70 or below. [1] (mn.gov), [2] (x.com)

Reason for Change: The previous threshold of 85 over-identified individuals"disproportionately labeling minority students"and caused misclassifications in special education. Dropping the score to 70 focused the diagnosis on people with true cognitive needs. [1] (x.com)

More from the article ...

... KFF Health News first reported that the Consumer Product Safety Commission -- a federal agency tasked with monitoring injuries from household items -- was pressuring hospitals to provide a private company with personally identifiable health information for analysis. The rollout of the program has inspired broad pushback from hospitals and privacy advocates.

The CPSC's goal is to obtain millions of Americans' medical records from emergency rooms for most injuries, even when a consumer product is not involved, internal emails and documents reviewed by KFF Health News revealed. The agency instructed hospitals to share detailed patient information for more than 10,000 types of injuries or conditions, such as vaccine reactions, suicide attempts or stingray stabs.

The scope of data CPSC is collecting far exceeds the agency's mission and should be immediately suspended, Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, who sits on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and other House and Senate Democrats wrote in a letter to CPSC acting Chairman Peter Feldman.

"This unprecedented and sweeping effort to collect identifiable patient data is untethered from the Commission's statutory mission and authority, and is ripe for misuse by an administration that has repeatedly sought access to Americans' most personal information," the letter stated. "Americans should be able to seek medical care without fear that their personal health information will be swept into a federal database and repurposed for political ends." ...


www.eurekalert.org

News Release 29-Jul-2026

University of Liverpool researchers have identified that hospital admissions in England for ectopic pregnancy (when a fertilised egg implants outside the womb) have been increasing since 2021, with more than twice as many admissions of women from most deprived areas than the least deprived areas.

www.msichoices.org.uk

Doesn't look like access to abortion is helping in England to reduce ectopic pregnancy related deaths.

I'll do you all one better than that.........here is an illegal who murdered a co-worker

www.kwch.com

The Kansas attorney general is going to prosecute the case.....against the worker.

What do you expect to happen to the employer?

other than their insurance being drug into it......which is going to happen for sure. Oh, and OSHA has been there already. we'll see what they do.

Drudge Retort

Home | Breaking News | Comments | User Blogs | Stats | Back Page | RSS Feed | RSS Spec | DMCA Compliance | Privacy