Archive for November 2025

> Protecting an Abuser: Leaders of a Minnesota church didn’t report a parishioner to police though they knew he’d sexually abused girls for years and had been told reporting it was their duty.
> Forgive and Forget: Church leaders held meetings where children were told to forgive the man who sexually abused them and forget the abuse. If they spoke of it, the sin would be theirs.
> Missed Opportunities: Prosecutors had at least one opportunity to intervene but hoped educating church leaders about their duties would encourage them to cooperate with authorities.
Above: An internal church document outlining guidelines for handling abuse includes bringing both parties together for a discussion.

Fossil fuels pollute the air when they are extracted and when they are burned, but the steps between those two points involve far more than familiar scenes of drilling equipment and smoke-filled power plants. These visible operations represent only the beginning and end of a five-stage process that brings fossil fuels from the ground to their final use.

For more than 20 years, hormone therapy for menopause has carried a warning label from the Food and Drug Administration describing the medication’s risk of serious harms – namely, cancer, cardiovascular disease and possibly dementia. On Nov. 10, 2025, the FDA announced that drugmakers should remove these “black box” safety warnings.

APA warns that generative AI chatbots and wellness apps lack sufficient evidence and regulation to ensure user safety, urging systemic mental health reforms, stronger safeguards, and evidence-based standards before these technologies are relied on for emotional support or treatment.

Boris Johnson and his top adviser presided over a “toxic and chaotic culture” in Downing Street that undermined efforts to deal with the pandemic, the Covid Inquiry has found.

The disciplinary action against a licensed clinical social worker, follows allegations that he harassed two female employees he supervised at a rehabilitation facility and entered into a personal and sexual relationship with one of them.

LLMs are also using material from retracted scientific papers to answer questions on their chatbot interfaces, according to a study in the Journal of Advanced Research in May 2025. “People are increasingly using ChatGPT or similar to summarize topics, and this shows that they risk being misled by the inclusion of retracted information,” Thelwall added.