In 2019, a rare and shocking event in the Malaysian peninsula town of Ketereh grabbed international headlines. Nearly 40 girls age 12 to 18 from a religious school had been screaming inconsolably, ...

A recent draft report from the United Nations has ignited global concern after repeating claims that gender dysphoria may be “socially contagious.” Reem Alsalem, the UN Human Rights Council’s special ...

A recent study claiming to describe more than 1,600 possible cases of a “socially contagious syndrome” was retracted in June for failing to obtain ethics approval from an institutional review board.

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Bill McGurn, Allysia Finley and Kim Strassel. I was an academic scientist at Penn State in February 2020, when I became the target of an online ...

A single paper on the notion that gender dysphoria can spread among young people helped galvanize an anti-trans movement. When Jay told his mom he was bisexual at 14, she was supportive. But when he ...

The COVID-19 global pandemic has certainly given us all a dramatic and harsh lesson on viral contagion. Perhaps the phrase “going viral” now has a much more jarring and worrisome connotation than ...