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Jun 4 • 2 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
1/ In 2020, California changed insurance language on double mastectomies for gender dysphoric females from "cosmetic" to "reconstructive" to remove age limits for the surgery.

Normal breasts were reclassified as "abnormal structures of the body caused by congenital defects." ImageImage
2/ "As such, in an individual diagnosed with gender dysphoria, who is born with female characteristics and identifies as male, the presence of a female chest is an abnormal body structure caused by gender dysphoria..."

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Colin Wright Profile picture
Mar 27
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. Image
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Colin Wright Profile picture
Mar 22
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. ImageImage
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.” ImageImage
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Mar 14
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.
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Feb 16
1/🧵I was inspired to pursue science at a young age by amazing scientists like Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, etc. They taught me the importance of the unbiased search for truth. They never mentioned DEI, and for good reason—it's antithetical to rigorous science.
2/ I wanted to be a university professor because I wanted to do good science in addition to teaching and inspiring future generations of curious students about the natural world.

Research and teaching, I couldn't imagine a better career.
3/ But the DEI initiatives that swung into full force shortly after I got my PhD in 2018 required me to center regressive politics over rigorous science. This wasn't what I signed up for.

I'll never forgive what activists have done to the academy. They've utterly destroyed it.
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Feb 16
1/🧵Most people simply haven't been exposed to the biological fact that males and females are defined according to the relative size of their gametes. It's just not something most people learn on their own, and so they have this naive idea that it's based on overall body shape.
2/ They don't know the difference between primary & secondary sex organs, or what secondary sex characteristics are. It's not their fault they don't know this (I don't know plenty!), but then woke humanities professors who are similarly ignorant about it validate this ignorance.
3/ And the worst part is that they end up inoculating people against the biological definition of male and female by associating it with bigotry, racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. In other words, they make acknowledging reality socially taboo.
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Jan 26
1/ 🧵When I worked at Bayer, they got around regulations on "genetically modified" pesticide biologics by performing so-called "encouraged evolution" to achieve a desired mutation. Similar to how Pfizer is performing "directed evolution" to avoid calling it "gain of function."
2/ But these "encouraged" or "directed" "evolution" methods are actually more dangerous than straightforward genetic modification, because the mutations are not precisely targeted. They mutate the ENTIRE genomes with mutagens and what they produce is much more unpredictable.
3/ These "evolutionary" methods to create mutants are not done because they're less dangerous to humans. It's done because it's less LEGALLY dangerous, has fewer costly regulations to circumvent, and has less social stigma associated with it. That's all.
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