With all its talk of black-on-white war, YouTube’s “hate speech”-filtering AI can’t tell the difference between chess players and violent racists. Perhaps leaving robots in charge of the English language isn’t such a good idea. Chess is now seen as racist for also white moving first. Croatian chess player Antonio Radic, known to his million subscribers as ‘Agadmator,’ runs the world’s... 

Because of the statistically high incidence of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in the Jewish Ashkenazi community, there have been several ongoing medical studies requesting volunteers to help scientists better understand the biological basis of these conditions: [However,] Yeshiva University Prof. Rabbi Moshe Tendler, a medical ethicist, has expressed concerns about [such] studies focusing only... 

Women denouncing their sisters who publicly tout the virtues of traditional marriage and motherhood as victims of extremist brainwashing have substituted a creeping paternalism for feminism’s true aims. Concern about the rise of the so-called ‘tradwife’ movement – young women embracing a return to pre-feminist gender roles in which the wife is expected to take care of her husband and children... 

A new survey of more than 8,000 people has found that those who identify with left-wing political beliefs are more likely to have been diagnosed with a mental illness. Ann Coulter’s “liberalism is a mental disorder” catchphrase has become something of a clichéd meme, but the data appears to support it. Carried out by Slate Star Codex, the online survey collected a wealth of data from respondents... 

New research has shown that despite being marketed as a healthy alternative, soybean oil, America’s most popular oil, causes neurological changes in the brains of mice, and may contribute to autism and dementia in humans. Extracted from the seeds of soybeans and used in everything from fast food to animal feed and even baby formula, soybean oil is easily the most widely consumed oil in the US, ubiquitous... 

British ‘ethical vegan’ Jordi Casamitjana hopes to have his whole movement recognized by an employment tribunal as a protected belief, similar to a religious faith – which could give vegan zealots free rein in the workplace. Casamitjana says he was fired from his job because of his beliefs – he disclosed to other employees at the League Against Cruel Sports that it invested its pension funds... 

While the world was celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, a UN agency tweeted out a message claiming that motherhood is a ‘penalty’ for women. It’s unlikely the Virgin Mary would agree. The message, tweeted out on Christmas Eve, appeared on a mock ‘speeding ticket’ which claims “being a mother” is a violation cited by “Officer P. Atriarchy,” with the date of the offense given as... 

Over the past several decades, US news media have shifted towards advocacy and emotional appeals, according to a RAND Corporation study. This is sowing discord in American society, award-winning journalist Chris Hedges tells RT. The study, released by RAND earlier this week, cautiously argues that between 1987 and 2017, news content has shifted from event- and context-based reporting to coverage that... 

Browns are not happy that whites don’t want to have sex with them. They are demanding action. Sinakhone Keodara reached his breaking point last July. Loading up Grindr, the gay dating app that presents users with potential mates in close geographical proximity to them, the founder of a Los Angeles-based Asian television streaming service came across the profile of an elderly white man. He struck... 

Researchers have discovered the part of the brain that produces the “voices” that some schizophrenia sufferers are tormented by and managed to partially silence them by using magnetic pulse therapy. Schizophrenia is a serious long-term mental health problem, with symptoms that can include delusions and hearing voices, which is called Auditory Verbal Hallucination. About 70 per cent of people with... 

Schizophrenia, epilepsy and chronic pain research receives a boost as the mystery behind the Costa Rican coral snake’s capability to induce seizures in its victims is deciphered by researchers. The mechanism in the snake’s venom is consisted of a pair of proteins called micrurotoxins (MmTX) which bind to the pores of the nerve cells located in the spinal cord and brain, referred to as GABA(A)... 

A jury in Santa Ana, California, on Monday found two former Fullerton police officers not guilty in the beating death of a homeless man. The two officers, Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli, were charged with striking Kelly Thomas, a schizophrenic homeless, with a baton and a stun gun after they arrested him two and half years ago at the Fullerton Transportation Center. According to City News Service,... 

Remember scenes from horror movies where a character looks in the mirror and sees a completely unfamiliar face emerging out of it? Sometimes they see a reflection of a certain entity behind them. Where does this come from? Some explain this phenomenon by an optical illusion, others – deviations in the psyche, while others blame it on supernatural causes. Italian psychologist Giovanni Caputo... 

Jaroslav Flegr beleives that he has been infected by a parasite that is manipulating his behaviour Parasites passed from cats could be causing schizophrenia in their owners, a scientist has claimed. Studies have also shown behavioral changes in humans, including lower reaction times and a sixfold increased risk of traffic accidents among infected, RhD-negative males, as well as links to schizophrenia... 

Scientists at the University of Bristol found that even one cannabis joint could trigger schizophrenia Smoking just one cannabis joint can bring on symptoms of schizophrenia, a study has found. Researchers at the University of Bristol have, for the first time, looked in detail at the changes in the brains of cannabis users. They found the drug disrupts the same parts of the brain as the psychotic illness,...