It's up to you to decide whether to try to convince others that your concerns and beliefs are worth adopting. Showing up doesn't mean you'll win, but not showing up means you'll be fringe. There are no awards handed out for telling the world you're exhausted that most people disagree with you
people on this site need to calm down so badly. it's just such an unhealthy way to be
I don't think Matt Yglesias is a Nazi collaborator
New from me: Elon Musk, Standpoint Epistemologist
(on his claim that if you don't have kids you can't do AI alignment)
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This is groundhog day medical misinformation hell.
Not OP's fault:
1. Most science journos have been laid off
2. Mainstream outlets rarely touch this meaningfully
3. This leaves a gap that's filled with partisans chanting TORDOFF 2022! TORDOFF 2022! etc
jessesingal.substack.com/p/researcher...
I'm baffled by the designation of SEGM as a hate group. I reached out to the SPLC repeatedly to try to get them to explain it to no avail. I've never seen anything that would justify that label and the SPLC's written claims were truly bonkers.
jessesingal.substack.com/p/the-disast...
The 1% quote is made-up in the context of youth gender medicine, unfortunately.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
See also Kinnon MacKinnon
There's also a broader point here about using regret/detrans in the absence of more robust measures. But we don't even know the regret/detrans %.
I wrote about Dr. Jonathan Howard's view that to ask the question "What is a man?" is to put people in physical danger. I also questioned doctors who are unfamiliar with the bare basics of research methods can provide good care to their patients.
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Bluesky users are objectively in favor of violent threats deployed against the 'right' targets. When Bluesky does the right thing and bans or suspends one of its many users who engage in violent threats, the only possible explanation is a conspiracy theory.
I think what annoys me the most is advocates for youth gender medicine simply *lying*, for years, that doctors only prescribe these treatments after careful deliberation -- long after we've known that this isn't the case. It's hard to fathom the recklessness
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