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View More NewsEarlier, I offered some high-level thoughts on the latest episode of As the Couch Turns. Here, I want to drill down into the details. First, the Eleventh Circuit’s decision to make this reprimand private must be contrasted with the Ninth Circuit’s decision to make Judge Nelson’s investigation public. I agree with Arthur Hellman that the Ninth Circuit had the authority to make this proceeding public, but the Chief Judge was not obligated to. Judge Nelson has been charged with minor offenses. Given his lack of criminal history, the charges are likely to be dismissed. All of this may come to…
In Georgia, a new interpretation of state law could force many health clinics run by nurse practitioners to close. Under state law, nurse practitioners must practice under the supervision of a doctor. But the Georgia Composite Medical Board has ruled that nurse practitioners cannot pay physicians for that supervision. Nurse practitioners argue that many physicians will be unwilling to take on the responsibility without compensation, making it difficult or impossible for clinics to operate. The board says the current interpretation makes the doctor the nurse practitioner’s employee, the reverse of what it says is required by law. But nurse practitioners…
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Human evolution, particularly of the brain, ended a long time ago—at least that is what many educated people, wary of claims about biological differences between human groups, prefer to believe. For much of the postwar era, it was widely assumed that natural selection had largely ceased to shape human populations and that any evolution during the past ten millennia was too slow or too slight to detect. That view was partly shaped by evidence and partly shaped by history. After World War II, the horrors of Nazi racial science made claims about human biological variation radioactive, and for good reason.…
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