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Feb 9 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
.@thedarkhorsepod declared a spreader of misinformation.

Nope. We engage topics scientifically, are skeptical in the face of certainty, & speak truth even when it’s inconvenient for those in power.

The @nytimes of old would have applauded such behavior.
nytimes.com/2023/02/09/tec…
@thedarkhorsepod @nytimes A reminder: fact-checkers aren’t scientists, and many of the “facts” claimed to be false by these petty tyrants have long since checked out as true.
open.substack.com/pub/naturalsel…
#FollowTheScience is a perfect encapsulation of an anti-scientific approach to the world, shared by those who think they are modern and hip and sciencey.

Instead of following the herd, go off on your own, and try working some of it out for yourself.
open.substack.com/pub/naturalsel…
Science is not embodied in a person. Science is not a thing to be followed. Science is not the conclusions announced by a credentialed guy using big words.

Unlike actual science, #FollowTheScience is an ideology. You’ve been had.

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Dec 20, 2022
“Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?” Syme asks Winston in 1984. “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?”
open.substack.com/pub/naturalsel…
As I noted in the last footnote of the linked piece, the Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed that I saw after I had finished it, which includes a link to the now forbidden content. Here are a few gems:
Using more words is always more awesomer than using fewer words. What about albino people of African descent though? Where do they fit in to the acronym? Come on, guys, do better. Be better.
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Nov 21, 2022
Breaking news! Vitamin D protective against Covid!

Some of us have been saying this for a long time, but media & public health orgs have been silent. It's like they prioritize our fear and compliance over our ability to take control of our own health.
nature.com/articles/s4159…
Here’s my Substack, from October 26, 2021
Here’s Bret and me on DarkHorse talking about it, in a clip from #DarkHorseLive102, which aired on October 30, 2021:
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Oct 31, 2022
“The people who got it right, for whatever reason, may want to gloat.”

Being recognized for having gotten it right is not gloating, @ProfEmilyOster.

And those who got it so terribly wrong? You need to apologize, and work hard to right what you and yours inflicted on people.
Vaccine mandates caused job and income loss, family break-ups, injury, death.

These are mandates for vaccines, remember, that people *now* claim were never supposed to stop transmission.

You advocated for mandates, and now you would have us move on? How dare you.
There are many who are permanently harmed—physically, financially, socially—by what you and yours wrought on society, with your uninvestigated terror and rules.

This is the failure of “data-driven” in stark relief. Next time, try a hypothesis. Do actual science.
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Oct 21, 2022
Modern activism is often performative, rehearsed, and utterly out of touch with reality. Here, I make the bold claim that men and women are, on average, different heights. That appears to have been a bridge too far.
As absurd a performance as that is by activists, the truth is worse than the fact that they are denying reality. They are not responding to what was said. They are immune to new information. They are engaged in theatre, in what I call read-only activism.
open.substack.com/pub/naturalsel…
After @JamesADamore wrote his memo, common sense unraveled at google. Some employees took time off to deal with the trauma of having read that, on average, men and women vary in some ways. How many of those employees do you suppose were men?
npr.org/sections/thetw…
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Oct 2, 2022
Which do we prefer: Allow many children to be irrevocably harmed for what was a passing phase? Or insist on delay for everyone, including those tiny few who persist in their dysphoria until they are legally considered adults?

Vox gets it very, very wrong.
vox.com/policy-and-pol…
Compare the risks side by side:

fail to intervene early, such that a tiny # of actual trans people begin physical transition later & become a less good fit for their perceived sex; or

permanently disrupt normal development for children who were merely exploring their identity.
Which error does society prefer to make?

In the language of statistics, we can frame the decision this way: The null hypothesis is that you are not trans.
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Mar 12, 2022
When medical interventions result in long-term harm to the individuals who are on the receiving end, those harmed deserve help, compassion, and a voice. [thread 1/12]
March 12 is #DetransAwarenessDay: a day to recognize those harmed by the increasingly common hormonal and surgical “treatments” that facilitate a person passing as the opposite sex that they are. 2/
zoom.us/webinar/regist…
Make no mistake: Social contagion is real. Whole populations can quickly become enamored of certain positions, about which most individuals previously had no opinion. Those positions go from unknown to mandatory almost overnight. 3/
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