Scientific racism, a thread: In March, a journal published a paper defending the “theory” that Boasian anthropology, Freudian psychology, multiculturalism, Marxism and left-wing political movements in general are best understood in terms of “Jewish group evolutionary strategy.”
These “Jewish ideologies,” we are told, promote Jewish group interests by weakening the white populations sense of nationalism, religiosity and ethnocentrism. 2/100

link.springer.com/article/10.100…
It is also claimed that this group evolutionary strategy also manifests itself in the over-representation of Jews in the leadership of cultural, academic and political fields that have been tainted by cultural Marxism. 3/100
This “theory” is, obviously, the nothing more than the delusions of a neo-Nazi crank.

Originating with open White Nationalist Kevin MacDonald, it’s basically every anti-Semitic conspiracy theory you’ve ever heard dressed up in pseudo-Darwinian clothes. 4/100
But this wasn’t published in some fringe journal. It was published in Evolutionary Psychological Science a Springer Nature journal with leaders in the field like David Buss and Steven Pinker sitting on it’s editorial board. 5/100 Image
If this surprises you, it probably shouldn’t. Semi-mainstream scientific journals a littered with bogus race science just like this. 6/100
Hell, this paper itself was part of an exchange with a rival scholar who claimed that Jewish over-representation in the leadership of these movements can be best explained in terms of racial differences in innate intelligence. 7/100

doi.org/10.1007/s12110…
So how did we get to this point where mainstream scientific journals are hosting a debate on the finer details of the Jewish Question?

In this thread, we’ll see how this is the result of a concerted effort at entryism into academia by a network of far-right activists. 8/100
This is the story of how Nazi money continued to corrupt the sciences long after the Second World War by funding fringe scholars and selectively funding semi-mainstream research. 9/100
It is the story of how former members and active supporters of the NSDAP, along with their ideological successors, infiltrated academia and set up fake scientific institutions to advance their racist ideology; institutions which still exist to this day. 10/100

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Did the Cass Review disregard the evidence of all but 2 of 103 studies on puberty blockers & hormones to reach it’s conclusions? Yes and no.

I’d like to offer a brief breakdown of what they did & didn’t do & clear-up some misunderstandings.
Cass commissioned a series of systematic reviews from the University of York, two of these looked at the outcomes of treatment with puberty blockers and with cross sex hormones. We’ll focus on the latter for our example.
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The reviews sifted through the available studies and used a variation on the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) to grade each study as high, moderate or low certainty (the word used by the authors is “quality”).
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🧵 Hilary Cass misrepresents this big scary graph in her final report. It’s not from a study of people who detransition, it’s from an ethnographic study of the online detrans community (a socio-political subculture). 15.54 Figure 37 shows some of the reasons given for detransitioning in response to a cross-sectional online survey of 237 self-identified participants (Vandenbussche, 2022).  Source: Vandenbussche, E. (2021). Detransition-related needs and support: A cross-sectional online survey. Journal of Homosexuality, 69(9), 1602–1620. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2021.1919479
Respondents who had medically and/or socially detransitioned were excluded if they continued to identify as transgender or didn’t embrace a “detrans” identity. The majority of people who detransition were never eligible to participate.
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The term “detransitioner” will be used here to refer to someone who possibly underwent some of these medical and/or social detransition steps and, more importantly, who identifies as a detransitioner. It is important to add this dimension, because the act of medical/social detransition can be performed by individuals who did not cease to identify as transgender and who do not identify as detransitioners or as members of the detrans community. Furthermore, some individuals might identify as detransitioners after having ceased to identify as trans, while not being in a position to medically o...
Curiously, respondents were included in the study even if they had never taken any steps to socially or medically transition. This is a study of detrans as an identity within online spaces. Not of people who detransition. Everyone who answered “yes” to the question “Did you transition medically and/or socially and then stopped?” was selected in the study. The individual questionnaires of the 9 respondents who answered “no” to this question were looked at closely, in order to assess whether they should be included in the study. Eight of them were added to the final sample, as their other answers indicated that their experiences lead them to identify as detransitioners.
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