The idea that the "accountability culture people weren't defending firings" and that conservatives were just "complaining about not being liked" is a COMPLETE lie.

🧵Let's take a trip down memory lane to 2020 when activists tried to destroy my career...

In 2020 I was a postdoc at Penn State with a soon-expiring contract. I was job hunting for tenure track professorships.

I posted the following tweet (left) citing the well-known "social contagion" hypothesis by Lisa Littman in her work on ROGD. See Littman's paper on the right.

The "accountability culture people" thought this tweet was cancel-worthy and attempted to spread word of my "vile transphobia" to my colleagues, even tagging diversity organizations in my field.

"Colin is on the job market. I hope the EEB community is paying attention."

🚨BREAKING: The American Anthropological Association the Canadian Anthropology Society have cancelled the panel "Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby: Why biological sex remains a necessary analytic category in anthropology" scheduled to take place at their annual conference.

The reasons given for the cancellation was that the panel conflicted with their values, compromised "the safety and dignity of our members," and diminished the program's "scientific integrity."

They claimed the ideas the panel was planning to advance (i.e., sex is a real and scientifically important biological variable) would "cause harm to members represented by the Trans and LGBTQI of the anthropological community as well as the community at large."

The AAA and CASCA have vowed to "undertake a major review of the processes associated with vetting sessions at our annual meetings" to ensure that such discussion panels about the reality and importance of sex will not be approved in the future.

The panelists responded to the sudden cancellation of the scheduled panel discussion, expressing their disappointment that the AAA and CASCA "have chosen to forbid scholarly dialogue" on this topic.

They also firmly rejected the "false accusation" that "to support the continued use of biological sex categories (e.g., male and female; man and woman) is to imperil the safety of the LGBTQI community."

The panelists say the suggestion that the panel would compromise “…the scientific integrity of the programme” is "particularly egregious," noting that, on the contrary, "the decision to anathematize our panel looks very much like an anti-science response to a politicized lobbying campaign."

Finally, the panelists claimed that the AAA's and CASCA's attempt to chill future debate on this topic represents a "declaration of war on dissent and on scholarly controversy" and a "profound betrayal of their stated commitment to "advancing human understanding and applying this understanding to the world's most pressing problems."

Below is the program entry for the now cancelled panel.

NEW YORK TIMES: "Pediatric gender medicine is a nascent specialty, and few studies have tracked how patients fare in the long term, making it difficult for doctors to judge who is likely to benefit."

TRANSLATION: Hormonally and surgically transitioning children is completely experimental, and claims that such interventions are "life-saving" are not based on any reliable data.

"And conservative lawmakers in more than 20 states have taken the draconian step of banning or severely restricting gender treatments for minors."

Apparently it's the laws putting age limits on irreversible and often sterilizing hormones and surgeries that are "draconian," not the procedures themselves that, as the author admits, have no evidence of benefit. Right...

"It’s clear the St. Louis clinic benefited many adolescents: Eighteen patients and parents said that their experiences there were overwhelmingly positive..."

That's not how evidence-base medicine works. Given the lack of long-term outcome data and properly controlled experiments, which the author fully acknowledges, it is impossible to know whether the "positive" outcomes were a direct result of "gender-affirming care."

This is a classic post hoc, ergo propter hoc (after this, therefore resulting from it) fallacy.

The Univariate Fallacy

This is one of the most common and effective fallacies of our time, and it works by concentrating on a single variable while ignoring all else to deceive people into accepting a distorted picture of reality.

1/ Thread 🧵
realityslaststand.com/p/beware-the-u…

2/ Importantly, there are two versions of the UF that you should know. One version is blatantly applied across many issues and is used to invent/exaggerate group differences, while the other is applied more narrowly to reduce or eliminate appearance of real group differences.

3/ The first, more common version of the Univariate Fallacy serves as the foundation for virtually all “equity” initiatives that aim to eliminate outcome disparities for various identity groups based on immutable traits like race, sex, and gender identity.

My article debunking a "multimodal" model of sex is now free for everyone.

But here's a 🧵 covering the basics...

1/ Activists are attempting to debunk the notion that male and female represent real and discrete biological categories in humans.

realityslaststand.com/p/debunking-ps…

2/ They believe that categorizing people as male or female is not only biologically incorrect but also harmful and oppressive.

Now, many activist scientists have been attempting to provide an imprimatur of legitimacy to these radical and anti-scientific beliefs.

3/ Early attempts to debunk the two-sex model sought to expand the # of sexes beyond 2. One example is Anne Fausto-Sterling, who claimed the “two-party sexual system” in humans was “in defiance of nature,” and that there are “at least five sex categories, and perhaps even more.”

I decided to try a keto diet for a month to see how I like it. Today is day 10. Here's my experience so far.

Short 🧵:

In the first 4 days I dropped 5-6 pounds, which is likely water weight. Weight hasn't dropped more.

Despite eating calorically dense fatty foods and eating when I'm hungry, I'm actually eating under 2000 calories a day because each meal is very satiating.

I notice a big difference between eating carbs and going carb free. The difference is the impact on hunger levels.

Before, when i was really hungry and started eating carbs, I would get hungrier in the beginning before starting to feel full.

But with protein and fat, my hunger begins to drop off from the first bite. This seems to naturally prevent overeating.