Karine Jean-Pierre throws TEMPER TANTRUM over questions about Biden's health



The White House press corps is not happy with Karine Jean-Pierre — as she just can’t seem to stop repeating lies from the White House regarding the president’s health.

“I never answered the question incorrectly,” Jean-Pierre responded to a frustrated member of the press. “That is not true. I was asked about a medical exam, I was asked about a physical, that was in the line of questions that I answered.”

“And I said ‘No, he did not have a medical exam,’ and I still stand by that. Matter of fact, the president still stands by that. He had a verbal check-in, that is something that the president has a couple times a week,” Jean-Pierre continued.

When another reporter asked the name of the doctor with whom President Biden has weekly check-ins, Jean-Pierre got angrier.

“I am telling you right now that I am not sharing, confirming names from here. It is a security reason. I am not going to do that Ed, it doesn’t matter how hard you push me, it doesn’t matter how angry you get with me. I’m not going to confirm a name,” she said.

Pat Gray is confused as to why it’s a “security reason.”

“If she mentions the guy's name, if it’s Dr. Cannard, does that mean people are going to try to kill him? Is that what the security issue is? Are you endangering his life by saying, ‘Yeah, he treated the president?’ This is BS. Come on,” Gray says.

Jean-Pierre then went on to claim that it was for the doctor’s “privacy.”

“It is inappropriate, it is not acceptable,” she added.

“He’s the president’s doctor,” Gray laughs. “That just ruins your career.”

In another press briefing, Jean-Pierre appeared to be on the brink of tears.

“We literally do everything that we can, my team does, that we can, to make sure that we get the answers to you,” she said. “And sometimes we disagree, sometimes we are not in agreement. But you know what, that’s democracy.”

“And so to say that I’m holding information, or allude to anything else, is unfair, is really, really unfair,” she continued. “And I will admit, I will be the first one to admit, sometimes I get it wrong. At least I admit that.”

Then it got worse, as Jean-Pierre told reporters sometimes she doesn’t “have the information,” but again, at least she admits it.

When she was asked whether or not Biden would submit to a cognitive test, Jean-Pierre said more of absolutely nothing.

“Everything that he does day in and day out, as it relates to delivering for the American people, is a cognitive test.”


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Scientists deal another blow to gender ideology, confirming the obvious: Men's and women's brains work differently



Radical feminist theorists such as Judith Butler and various exponents of trangenderism have suggested that sex — or at the very least gender, assuming there is a difference — is socially constructed.

A group of Stanford Medicine researchers rained on the gender ideologues' parade this week with a new study indicating that no amount of social construction or cosmetic surgery can hide the fact of one's actual sex on a brain scan.

The study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, identified "highly replicable, generalizable, and behaviorally relevant sex differences in human functional brain organization localized to the default mode network, striatum, and limbic network."

Simply put: men's and women's brains not only are physically distinct, but they operate differently.

Differences between the sexes in behavior, performance, and physiology have been observed and understood since time immemorial. While various studies have substantiated this common sense in esteemed academic journals — highlighting in 2017, for instance, the volumetric and structural differences between male and female brains — the Stanford scientists suggested that previous scientific work demonstrating differences in brain organization between the sexes remained inconclusive.

Accordingly, they set out to "uncover latent functional brain dynamics that distinguish male and female brains."

Lead authors Srikanth Ryali and Yuan Zhang, along with senior author Vinod Menon, director of the Stanford Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, fed a new artificial intelligence model various brain scans, telling it whether it was digesting images of male or female brains. Over time it began to "notice" subtle patterns that could help it differentiate between the two types.

The researchers then tested their spatiotemporal deep neural network model on the brain scans of 1,500 young adults, ages 20 to 35. The AI model proved incredibly effective at determining whether the scans came from men or women, getting it right over 90% of the time.

"Our results demonstrate that sex differences in functional brain dynamics are not only highly replicable and generalizable but also behaviorally relevant, challenging the notion of a continuum in male-female brain organization," said the study.

"This is a very strong piece of evidence that sex is a robust determinant of human brain organization," Menon said in a release.

The researchers also created sex-specific models of cognitive abilities. According to Stanford Medicine, one AI model was able to predict cognitive performance in men but not in women. The other model was effective in predicting cognitive performance but with the sexes reversed.

"These models worked really well because we successfully separated brain patterns between sexes," Menon noted. "That tells me that overlooking sex differences in brain organization could lead us to miss key factors underlying neuropsychiatric disorders."

The "hot spots" that were most helpful in distinguishing between male and female brains were the so-called default mode network, the corpus striatum, and the limbic system.

The Telegraph noted that the "default mode network" is the area of the brain believed to be the neurological seat for the "self," critical for contemplative thought, daydreaming, and processing autobiographic memories.

The striatum is a cluster of neurons in the forebrain that plays a general role in skill learning, apparently optimizing behavior by "refining action selection and in shaping habits and skills as a modulator of motor repertoires."

The limbic system is a group of structures deep inside the brain that performs various functions — from governing emotions, motivation, smell, and behavior to playing a role in the formation of long-term memory and dealing with sexual stimulation. It's also reportedly important in habit forming and rewards.

"A key motivation for this study is that sex plays a crucial role in human brain development, in aging, and in the manifestation of psychiatric and neurological disorders," continued Menon. "Identifying consistent and replicable sex differences in the healthy adult brain is a critical step toward a deeper understanding of sex-specific vulnerabilities in psychiatric and neurological disorders."

Gina Rippon, a leftist professor emeritus of cognitive neuroimaging at the Aston Brain Center, scrambled to account for the study's conclusions, claiming that society is to blame for the physical neurological differences between men and women, reported the Telegraph.

"The really intriguing issue is that those areas of the brain which are most reliably distinguishing the sexes are key parts of the social brain," said Rippon. "The key issue is whether these differences are a product of sex-specific, biological influences or of brain-changing gendered experiences. Or both. Are we really looking at sex differences? Or gender differences?"

Rippon has spent many years downplaying the role of biology in creating sex differences in the brain, going so far as to pen a controversial book in 2019 called "Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience that Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain."

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Conservatives parents are more likely to raise mentally healthy teens: Study



It may shock some leftists to discover that a surefire way to bolster the mental health of America's youth is not a numbing diet of pharmaceuticals, surgical procedures, or costly psychiatric interventions but rather conservative parenting.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed in a recent report that in 2021, 42% of students indicated they felt persistently sad or hopeless, and 29% signaled that they experienced poor mental health. 22% of students surveyed said they seriously considered suicide, and 10% said they had made an attempt.

Gallup and the Institute for Family Studies launched a study over the summer, looking for the causes of this runaway problem.

Researchers surveyed 6,643 parents and 1,580 adolescents living with a parent through Gallup's nationally representative, probability-based panel and took into account measures of "adolescent mental health, parental demographics, political views, attitudes toward marriage, parenting practices, and parent-child relationships."

A parent's race, ethnicity, household income, and educational level appear to bear little relation to their child's mental well-being. Rather, their parental practices, worldview, relationship with their child, and relationship with their spouse appear to be the greatest predictors of the next generation's cognitive health.

Jonathan Rothwell, principal economist at Gallup and the lead author of the study, underscored in an IFS blog post that the "best results com[e] from warm, responsive and rule-bound, disciplined parenting."

The most impactful parenting practices identified in the study pertain to regulation and enforcement, including setting well-established rules; demonstrating affection daily; setting a regular routine; and authoritatively regulating behavior.

Respondents who indicated it was difficult to discipline their child scored eight points lower on an index that combines youth-reported measures of well-being and mental health with parent reports. Adolescents belonging to parents who agreed that their child "must complete the priorities I set for them before they are allowed to play or relax" alternatively saw a 7.3% increase in likelihood of having good mental health.

Political ideology was found to be a strong predictor of parenting style. According to the study, adolescents with "very conservative parents are 16 to 17 percentage points more likely to be in good or excellent mental health compared to their peers with very liberal parents."

Liberal parents, conversely, had the lowest scores. Only 40% of liberal parents scored above average on the index. By way of comparison, 71% of very conservative parents and 56% of conservative parents scored above average.

According to the data, the biggest political divide in responses manifested in response to the statement, "my child often gets their way when we have a conflict." 80% of very conservative parents disagreed compared to 66% of conservative parents, 64% of moderate parents, 53% of liberal parents, and 55% of very liberal parents.

Rothwell noted, "Conservative parents enjoy higher quality relationships with their children, characterized by fewer arguments, more warmth, and a stronger bond, according to both parent and child reporting."

Beside ideology, parents who disagree with the notion marriage is an outdated institution, agree that marriage improves the quality of relationships by strengthening commitment, and wish for their own children to get married some day appear to have the best outcomes.

When it comes to couples, parents in high-quality relationships with their spouse were found to be roughly 14% more likely to adopt the practices that most benefit adolescents than those who give a middling or poor review of their spousal relationship. The partner-partner relationship also happens to be the strongest predictor of child-parent relationship quality.

Rothwell referenced the work of the late Stanford University psychologist Eleanor Maccoby, intimating she had been on the money in suggesting that children raised in authoritative homes — contra authoritarian or laissez-faire homes — were more likely to exhibit "self-control, social competence, success in school, compliance with rules and reasonable norms, and even exhibit more confidence and creativity."

The Gallup economist further suggested that contrary to the prevailing wisdom presuming medical experts to be the "only people who can prevent illness or help if it arises — often with prescription drugs," parents' actions, judgments, and relationships remain, as always, the key to their teen's mental health.

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Damning study suggests pandemic lockdowns accelerated 'significant' memory and cognitive decline in seniors



The lockdowns and societal restrictions championed by teachers' unions and other leftists during the pandemic were not just ruinous for the mental health of children and teens. A new study out of the U.K. indicates pandemic restrictions also had a deleterious impact on the minds of the elderly.

Dr. Anne Corbett of the University of Exeter Medical School and her team examined neuropsychology data from 3,142 individuals, all 50 years of age or over, who had been participating in a multi-decade dementia study in Britain. The researchers compared data on this cohort collected before the pandemic, early in the pandemic, then once more toward the tail end of the pandemic.

The researchers observed "[s]ignificant worsening of executive function and working memory" in the first year of the pandemic across the whole cohort, the average age of which was 67.5. Working memory continued to worsen across the whole cohort in the second year of the pandemic. By the time restrictions had ultimately been eased, the damage had been done.

According to the study, cognitive decline was significantly associated with reduced exercise and increased drinking across the whole cohort. Depression, another driving factor of cognitive decline, was notable amongst those who contracted COVID-19. Loneliness proved especially detrimental to those with mild cognitive impairment.

"People aged 50 years and older in the UK had accelerated decline in executive function and working memory during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, during which the UK was subjected to three societal lockdowns for a total period of 6 months," said the study, published in the Lancet journal Healthy Longevity.

The British government, which funded this study via the National Institute for Health and Care Research, not only limited the number of times citizens could exercise outside during the pandemic, but shuttered gyms, golf courses, sports courts, swimming pools, and indoor sports facilities.

"The scale of change is also of note, with all groups—the whole cohort and the individual subgroups—showing more than a 50% greater decline in working memory and executive function and many effect sizes reaching a clinically significant threshold of greater than 0·3," said the researchers.

The researchers further stressed that "[t]hese factors map closely to the population-wide changes in health and lifestyle seen during and after the lockdowns, raising the important question of the effect of the pandemic on cognitive health and risk across populations."

Governments across the West imposed lockdown measures on and off throughout the pandemic despite early indications there would be serious cognitive fallout, particularly amongst the elderly.

For instance, Italian scientists noted in an October 2020 paper in Frontiers in Psychiatry that social disconnection — of the kind all but guaranteed by the closure of voluntary associations, churches, parishes, gyms, and other meeting places for seniors — was a risk factor for dementia and likely to increase the risk of depression and anxiety for elderly people.

"Lockdown could affect disproportionately the mental health of old people, whom relatives contracted COVID-19, people who live alone and whose only social contacts take place outside home, and people who do not have close relatives or friends and rely on the support of voluntary services or social assistance," said the paper.

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White House physician who served under Obama calls for Biden's immediate resignation



A former White House Physician, who served in both the Obama and Trump administrations, said that President Joe Biden is not mentally fit to serve as president and ought to immediately resign.

On Friday, the physician in question, Ronny Jackson, said, “Biden doesn’t know what’s going on with Ukraine. He Doesn’t know what’s going on with ANYTHING! He’s not cognitively capable of leading. He needs to RESIGN before our country suffers anymore.”

Biden doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s going on with Ukraine. He doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s going on with ANYTHING! He\u2019s not cognitively capable of leading. He needs to RESIGN before our country suffers any more.
— Ronny Jackson (@Ronny Jackson) 1647043191

The doctor’s comments are in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine which continues to disrupt the geopolitical balance of power.

Jackson, a Republican, currently represents Texas’s 13th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives and has raised questions about Biden’s cognitive ability in the past.

In late February, Rep. Jackson called for Biden to take a cognitive test and said that he is “not fit to be our president right now.”

Fox News reported that Jackson said, “The whole country is seeing his mental cognitive issues on display for over a year now, and there’s really no question in most people’s minds that there’s something going on with him, that he’s not cognitively the same as he used to be and, in my mind, not fit to be our president right now.”

The congressman continued, “Every time he gets up and talks to the American people, it’s not just the American people that are watching him speak, it’s the whole world, and that’s part of what the problem is here. He looks tired, he looks weak, he looks confused, he’s incoherent, and it sends a message of weakness all over the world, and they’re seizing up on that.”

Last July, he predicted that Biden would eventually resign from the presidency due to his declining cognitive abilities.

He said, “There’s something seriously going on with this man right now, and, you know, I think that he’s either going to resign, they’re going to convince him to resign from office at some point in the near future for medical issues or they’re going to have to use the 25th Amendment to get rid of this man right now.”

Last January, Jackson slammed Biden for ignoring a question about his mental health and suggested that him doing so was an indication that something was “wrong” with the president.

Biden ignoring this question led Jackson to demand he sit for a cognitive examination.

Jackson said, “I am demanding he have a cognitive test NOW. There’s too much on the line, we need to know!”

BIDEN JUST IGNORED A QUESTION ABOUT HIS COGNITIVE DECLINE! Something is WRONG with him. This man IS NOT qualified to be President!! I am demanding he have a cognitive test NOW. There\u2019s too much on the line, we need to know!
— Ronny Jackson (@Ronny Jackson) 1642631784