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The Stanford prison experiment conducted by Dr. Philip Zimbardo in that university’s basement in 1971 should be familiar to anyone who’s cracked a psychology textbook in the last 40 years.

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As Children's Hospital Los Angeles scales back healthcare for trans youth, Stanford Medicine has stopped performing gender-affirming surgeries on patients younger than 19.

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