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15.04.2026: ADHD diagnoses in children and young people have increased dramatically. We need to be careful that a prediction made in 1994 is not realised. The proportion of teenage girls in Norway with an ADHD diagnosis tripled between 2010 and 2022, while the proportion among young boys nearly doubled (1). In...

14.01.2026: The big tech companies gather data on almost every aspect of our lives, something that gives them enormous power. We must not allow them to claim ownership of information about our thoughts, emotions and fears. At the start of 2026, the Norwegian Language Council crowned tekoligark (tech oligarch)...

25.11.2025: The international academic publishing system is in crisis. Non-commercial scientific journals, such as the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association, are part of the solution. Trust in academic publishing is a cornerstone of science. That trust is now under pressure. Some have described the...

02.06.2025: Vaccine refusal has become big business. There are fewer key players than we might think, and they are making good money. Vaccinated children are more than four times as likely to develop ADHD and autism as unvaccinated children. The website of the US organisation Children's Health Defense is rife...

26.03.2025: The United States has long been a beacon of global medical research. However, the systematic politicisation and erosion of independent research threatens to extinguish that beacon. The United States is the world's undisputed leader when it comes to medical research. Seven of the world's ten most...

15.01.2025: The Norwegian government wants to merge the Norwegian Healthcare Investigation Board and the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision. This is a bad idea. The Norwegian Healthcare Investigation Board (NHIB) was established in 2019. If the Norwegian government gets its way, this independent watchdog for...

23.09.2024: The intended increase in gold open access publishing has had various repercussions. One of the world's largest research funders will no longer provide support for this type of publishing. Scientific publishing remained almost unchanged for more than 350 years (1): the journals took care of quality...

24.06.2024: A tidal wave of predatory journals and fraudulent research is undermining trust in science. Now more than ever it pays to be critical, both as a reader and an author. In 2008, the library scientist Jeffrey Beall received an increasing number of emails from academic journals with an invitation to...