againstkookery.bsky.social
Thanks to Rich Lowry for my name. I fight harmful hysteria, pseudoscience/woo, fake medicine, contrarianism and conspiracy theories.
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My son is 3. We are already planning to buy an apartment for him so he has somewhere to live when he eventually wants to move out. It's that serious.
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Iran funds paramilitary forces operating in other countries; Israel is a destabilising factor to security and peace across the globe, but Iran can cause bigger chaos.
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In reality, Epstein killed himself, like so many accused child molesters do in prison. He was known to be suicidal mere days before his death. There is no conspiracy, and it irks me that his crimes against children are being used as a political weapon.
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This is the first *crash*.
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Wouldn't the Indian regulator take the lead on an investigation, since it was an Indian airline and it happened on Indian soil?
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787s have been great aircraft. This is the first 787 crash. We'll have to see what the cause was before determining whether the aircraft design or manufacture was at fault.
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I will say that the media talks about the real issues facing the USA in far more couched, cautious ways than they should be. So we probably broadly agree they should do more.
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I hardly think a single article is a "focus", and people read news media for a variety of viewpoints on a variety of topics. Are you suggesting nobody should run a gossip column or a sports article or articles on lighthearted community achievements until the evil of the world is purged? I'm sure no.
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Decades of American governments have relied on illegal immigration for food security. Food is important enough to turn a blind eye to illegal farm workers, but not important enough to actually make them legal citizens?
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If illegal immigrants were important to your food supply, you really should have made them PRs or citizens so they were more secure and could be paid at least minimum wage and receive proper employment protection.
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Don't forget the royalties
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Just because somebody is successful and "nice" doesn't mean we can't point out when she releases a few clunkers.
Almost every musical act that I like has some releases I don't like.
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I can't get over how Power Automate and Power Automate Desktop are so totally different from each other. As though neither team has even seen the other's product. (Power Automate is better than Desktop in most respects, imho).
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I'm not sure how I feel about named columns in a table being properties of the table object (referenced by "tableName[1].columnName") but it used to be different, so some older guides and Bing Chat will tell you to use the old way that doesn't work anymore. Grrr.
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"Sex is not binary" is an extremely niche viewpoint.
If sex were not binary (DSDs accepted) we'd have a much more difficult time trying to figure out who we can procreate with.
A huge cluster of points at either end of a scale and a small number of points in between doesn't mean it's not a binary.
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An advantage in those specific events.
So what you're essentially saying is that sex-based differences in athletic performance exist. Some are non-biological factors, true.
I'm not sure this really makes the point you want. In long events, women are 0.6% faster. In other events, men are 8% faster.
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Long distances again
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Interesting. But appears to only be useful to women over long distances of 100 miles?
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To be fair to Cody Meissner, *everybody* signed the Shit Barrington Declaration. I did several times, under the names of various Nazi doctors.
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Open and shut case, really.
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I'm not a scientist, but I am a science enthusiast. I often read scientific papers that interest me, but I haven't carried out any science of my own.
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Intersex people having "corrective" surgery done on them as kids without a medical need is something I oppose. I also oppose routine infant circumcision and the overdiagnosis of phimosis in the USA (and iatrogenic phimosis) but that's not relevant to men in women's sport.
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That's an important, but totally seperate issue to trans-identifying men without DSDs in women's sport.
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I'm aware that men don't have an advantage in all sports. But they do in running. Cycling. Cross-country. All the sports you are not addressing.
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If you feel like any of this is hateful, I am sorry that such a vast gulf comes between our understandings of the human condition. There is little I can do about that, except wish you a pleasant life and part ways politely.
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biology between men and women is naturally of higher importance than the nonexistent gender.
And yes, it is widely understood among gender critics that DSDs and intersex conditions exist. But these are irrelevant to the issue of whether gender exists or whether men should compete against women.
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Play with whatever toys they want, have whatever career and interests they want.
Identify with whatever gender stereotypes they want.
But their internal gendered feelings, if one has them, are unmeasurable and unknowable and have no relevance outside the self.
Because gender doesn't exist, >
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and essentially "doesn't exist". Gender only exists as a set of stereotypes that are meaningless and harmful.
Because gender cannot be objectively measured in a person, it should not be treated as though it exists in any meaningful way.
Anyone should wear a pink dress or a blue bowtie if they want
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That's a completely incorrect definition of gender criticism, and you are conflating differences of sex development with transgender issues. 99.5% of trans-identifying people don't have a DSD, so DSDs are irrelevant to the topic at hand.
Gender criticism is the belief that gender is not innate >
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I don't claim to be the top expert on anything.
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Scroll up from there and answer the cycling, swimming, running, track and field, cross country running events...
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Feel free to remove those three, which are not counted in the athletic stats.
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Feel free to remove those sports from the stats.
There's still a sizeable list of events where there are sex advantages, where men displaced women.
Are you going to address those?
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Do you, personally, know what gender criticism is? Can you give me a definition in your own words?
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It was pretty clearly an opinion piece, as it seemed very eager to paint anybody concerned about the issue as a hate group, lol
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Less than ten competing in one small subset of sporting competitions? Lol
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That's a rather charmingly naive take on defence. "All we need to do is pack some drones on a truck and drive it to the enemy's country!"
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You claimed the number of men competing in women's categories was small. I linked you a list of events where men won or placed or got records in women's events.
Your only retort appears to be "this opinion piece says that gender criticism is a hate group", which is frankly daft.
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Are you this deceptive with your patients? 🤔
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How many were born male and competed in a female category?
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So few trans-identifying athletes and yet so many of them winning competitions.
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If they leave the party, they have to pay One Nation back for all the promotional materials. I imagine he doesn't have the funds.
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There are much, much better examples than the loss of a fifth place.
Over 3,000 of them, in fact.
www.shewon.org
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You could also check out this site: www.shewon.org
You can now advise your male patients that they will probably retain a significant part of their athletic performance even after being on cross-sex hormones. I would imagine it will be received as good news.
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In twenty years and even after transitioning and having HRT for five years, his performance in the snatch only reduced by 12 kg.
Yes, at the Paris Olympics he failed to lift - but then, he was the oldest athlete to qualify for weightlifting at those Games...