For sex-realists in STEM who believe reality matters for continuing scientific and technological discoveries. The Enlightenment lives on.
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A point has been reached where those of us who value truth, who value reason, who value material reality and who recognise that the very foundation of how we make sense of the world, the scientific method, is being undermined, take a stand. @SEENSTEM
@SEENPublishing have written an important article about institutional capture at the @IOPPublishing. It doesn't matter how many trans people there are in an institution. One male who wants access to female spaces can cause the whole organisation to be turned on its head.
Daniel Radcliffe spoke about his work with The Trevor Project as part of his motivation for speaking out against @jk_rowling. It would be interesting to know what he makes of this revelation. thetrevorproject.org/blog/da…
NEWS: The Trevor Project also pressured WPATH to remove age restrictions on pediatric gender-transition treatment
WPATH emails have revealed that Rachel Levine put on such pressure. This email indicates @TrevorProject did as well, explicitly in the context of politics.
The email is part of a large quantity of internal WPATH documents that were subpoenaed by the Alabama attorney general for the suit over the state's ban on pediatric gender-transition treatment.
Really excited to welcome the new SEEN to the family @SEENPublishing So much capture in scientific journals meaning high quality articles are not getting published & sub-standard poor quality articles are - leading to an overall bias in the scientific narrative around sex/gender
We would like to thank all our fellow SEENS for helping us bring SEEN in Publishing to the world. With especial thanks to: @PoliceSEENUK @SeeninHR @JournalismSEEN and of course the geniuses in the Civil Service who set the ball rolling!
Clear language is important in public health. Someone's sex is crucial information, especially in healthcare. Woman is a sex-based term meaning adult female human as is man (adult male human). Using them as gender identity terms results in referring to people by body parts.
There are many types of bias that scientists and philosophers need to be aware of. One is 'confirmation bias.' In a recent interview @cajardineMP displays such bias regarding the #CassReview (mini thread) 1/6
In the interview Jardine makes reference to the #CassReview (irrelevant to the question asked which was about a GRC - thereby committing a Red Herring fallacy). She says "take the Cass report...take the positive things forward" 2/6
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Our first substack piece. This builds out our previous thread on The Placebo Effect and its relevance to gender medicine. seeninstem.substack.com/p/th…
Welcome to a new SEEN! @SEENinHealth
Welcome to SEEN in Health, the Sex Equality and Equity Network for NHS staff. We focus on the protected characteristic of sex. We're open to anyone who works in the NHS who shares our aims and values. Find out more or sign up for updates here seeninhealth.org/
"This is very carefully worded, but is questionably using the absence of evidence to imply evidence of absence, and at the same time pushing the lack of data onto the child to make an informed choice about." Important article highlighting the echo chambers voidifremoved.co.uk/p/source…
"Dawkins railed against the ‘debauching of language’ and the assault on science and reason. In particular, he took aim at Gender Studies Professor Anne Fausto-Sterling for her nonsensical argument that ‘sex in humans is a non-binary continuum’." web.archive.org/web/20240421…
"We have been drilled into the belief that “you can’t make a child trans”, but apart from the fact that an innate state of transness is unlikely and unprovable, you can definitely make a child “confused” thecritic.co.uk/where-is-so-…
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"spurious results were produced by a flawed question, which originated with a transgender campaigning organization. The question evidently confused a substantial number of respondents...overrepresentation of people lacking English proficiency" #DataMatters journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
A short 🧵on systematic reviews. The Cass Review represents a significant and groundbreaking systematic review in the field of paediatric gender medicine. However it has come under attack for including some studies and not others. Firstly, what is a systematic review?
"Cass review found professionals in the field are scared to discuss views amid risk of reputational damage & online abuse. Her conclusion was echoed by doctors, academic researchers & scientists, who said this climate has had a chilling effect on research" theguardian.com/society/2024…
"placebo response rates are often greater (in some conditions almost double) in children than in adults...in adult migraine trials, placebo effects have been estimated around 35% whereas pediatric migraine trials suggest placebo response rates of 50%" sciencedirect.com/science/ar….
A 🧵on the ‘placebo effect’ and why it's relevant to the #CassReview. The placebo effect is where a patient responds positively to sham treatment. E.G., in a placebo-controlled randomised trial, patients in the placebo arm improve despite not being on active treatment. 1/n
“the Cass review is concerned not only with the low certainty of the reported benefits due to poor study designs, but also with the possibility that the small improvements may be short-lived and due to the potential placebo effect” (SEGM)
A 🧵on the ‘placebo effect’ and why it's relevant to the #CassReview. The placebo effect is where a patient responds positively to sham treatment. E.G., in a placebo-controlled randomised trial, patients in the placebo arm improve despite not being on active treatment. 1/n
A 🧵on the ‘placebo effect’ and why it's relevant to the #CassReview. The placebo effect is where a patient responds positively to sham treatment. E.G., in a placebo-controlled randomised trial, patients in the placebo arm improve despite not being on active treatment. 1/n
Certain diseases have higher placebo effects than others e.g. pain (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article… ) and mental health disorders. E.G. up to 41% of people in the placebo arm respond in trials of anxiety despite being on non-active treatment (mentalhealth.bmj.com/content… ) 2/n
Mind the funding gap! Overall @UKRI_News grant awards are higher for male awardees than female awardees with male researchers being awarded £150K more on average than females. See below for some individual funding bodies.
The difference varies between the various funding bodies. The @EPSRC (engineering and physical sciences) in 2021-22 male researchers were awarded £344K more than female awardees. There were also far more male awardees (130F and 620M) - note only around 24% of physics undergrads F
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