Also: How this anti-porn crusader wants to close the ‘naïveté gap’ parents have about pornography
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| Lee Benson: "Is a research professor at the University of Utah on the verge of a significant breakthrough in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and other brain disorders? "Not only would a bunch of lab mice vote yes, they’d remember to do so. "Donna J. Cross, who has a doctoral degree in neuroscience, has spent the past 25 years shepherding research that favorably suggests a small, specialized dose of a chemotherapy drug called Paclitaxel might be capable of repairing injuries, whether caused by pathology or by trauma, to the human brain ... "In a nutshell, when the scientists have administered their version of the cancer drug to mice that have been bred to develop Alzheimer’s, the mice have experienced 'a complete reversal of their cognitive deficit.' Same thing happened when mice that had suffered concussions were given the medication." |
| Mariya Manzhos: "Gail Dines was 22 and living in Israel when she saw images that would alter the direction of her life. "A graduate student studying the sociology of education, she was at an event where there was a slideshow about women and violence. Disturbing photos popped up on the screen. She couldn’t shake them off afterwards. 'It was very clear to me as a feminist that women can’t live in a world safely when images like this are being distributed and men are consuming them,' Dines told me. After the event, she called her thesis advisor and changed her thesis topic to sociology of pornography. "Today, Dines says she didn’t choose this work. It chose her. "Dines is an anti-pornography scholar and former professor at Wheelock College in Boston (now part of Boston University), who has been researching and writing about the harms of pornography for nearly 40 years. But over the past eight years, she’s focused her attention on children. In 2015, she started Culture Reframed, a Boston-based nonprofit that helps parents talk with their children about pornography in ways that can make them resistant, even pornography-proof." Read more about Culture Reformed and the naïveté gap. |
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