🚨ALERT: This pseudoscientific activist "study" on "White ignorance" grounded in Critical Race Theory was paid for by an NIH grant that is supposed to be funding research on coronary heart disease (CHD) in children.

What was the justification for this? How much of this $3.1M grant money was spent on this project? I think taxpayers would really like to know. The "study" was an absolute joke.

It spun the responses of white teens who reject racism and "treat people as individuals" as evidence of “white ignorance” and “white supremacy.”

Look at this table from the paper and the kinds of responses the authors flag as "themes of white ignorance."

Oh, you don't like it when activists state that "all white people are racist"? This means you're "constructing white as disadvantaged," which is a form of "white ignorance."

The response:

"I don't really care what your skin, what your race is like you're still the same person on the inside even if you look different on the outside."

Was flagged as "framing race(ism) as unimportant or elsewhere," which is also a form of "white ignorance."

If every conceivable response can be bent to support your activist conclusion, then you're not doing science.

How much of our tax dollars were spent on this?

🚨A NEW PAPER published by Springer Nature argues that "pregnancy is not to be defined by biological phenomena but instead as a genre of political, aesthetic, and affective experience...involving birth and becoming in a larger sense."

It's the most 🦇💩 paper I've ever read. 🧵 First, you can watch/listen to me and @brad_polumbo discuss this paper in all its insane, hilarious, and often disturbing detail now on our new podcast, Citation Needed.

Subscribe and join the community!
citationneededpodcast.com/p/yale-researc…

🚨BREAKING: China Is Using TikTok to Wage a Trade War Against the United States

New data shared with me from @ncri_io reveals that TikTok is using their algorithm and state-backed influencers to evade U.S. tariffs via propaganda, triangle shipping, and fraud. 🧵 The viral push began in earnest on April 10—a week after the U.S. announced its new tariffs—when TikTok saw a huge spike in #sourcing content. Other platforms like Instagram didn’t exhibit a similar jump, showing that TikTok was the main driver of the campaign.

🚨BREAKING: A new report from @ncri_io uncovers a MASSIVE surge in foreign funding to universities under Biden, and a potential pipeline of foreign cash and public funds directly promoting radicalization and terrorism on U.S. campuses. 🧵 President Donald Trump has launched an aggressive campaign against the nation’s top universities, accusing them of failing to uphold civil rights, protect women’s sports, defend free speech, and prevent the spread of antisemitism.

🚨As the U.S. enters an era of legal warfare over pediatric “gender-affirming” care, it’s time to shift the terms of debate from outcomes to the foundational premises of the practice.

No amount of reported benefit can salvage a practice rooted in pseudoscience. 🧵 I have served as an expert witness for several court cases on gender-affirming care. These courtroom debates fixate almost entirely on whether the treatments show evidence of benefit.

This is a mistake.

Last week, the American Psychological Association released a statement about Trump's EO on the biology of sex.

In a section titled "What the Science Says," the APA makes several embarrassingly false statements due to their blind commitment to sex pseudoscience.

THREAD 🧵 STATEMENT 1: "Sex is a biological characteristic determined by chromosome and reproductive anatomy."

This statement is reflective of profound ignorance regarding the distinction between how sex is developmentally DETERMINED and how it's DEFINED.

It's true that in humans sex is "determined by chromosomes," but that just means genes on certain chromosomes guide embryos down developmental pathways that will result in either a male or female. So, on its face, this statement seems all right.

But the fact that they included "reproductive anatomy" in how sex is determined reveals their muddled thinking. The development of certain reproductive anatomy that has the function to produce either sperm or ova is how sex is DEFINED, not how it's DETERMINED.

🚨NEW: Proponents of "gender-affirming care" assert that "trans" people have an opposite-sex brain, a belief shaped by a pervasive pseudoscientific narrative flooding culture, courts, and clinics.

Here, @NeuroSGS, @buttonslives, and I address this fatally flawed "research." 🧵 The “brain sex” myth isn’t just an academic debate, it’s a diagnosis from doctors pushing people toward medical transition.

Take Yarden Silveira. The belief that he had a “female brain” caused him to pursue transition, and complications likely caused him to take his own life.

So I usually just quote the most ideological and insane sections of the woke papers I share here, but the abstract of this new paper is so unhinged that I'll let it speak for itself in full.

Queers, lesbians, cyborgs, robot dogs, trans-dog intimacies... it's got it all! 🤡 Link to paper ⬇️
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

🚨The NCAA's "transgender" policy is a TROJAN HORSE!

While the new policy might appear reasonable at a glance, a closer look reveals a massive loophole that actually streamlines the process of allowing males to compete in women’s sports. 🧵... First, the policy is steeped in gender ideology and deliberately avoids referencing objective biology. It defines “woman” as a “gender identity” rather than as an “adult human female”—the language of Trump's EO. Further, it defines “gender identity” circularly as “an individual’s own internal sense of their gender.”

They're doubling-down on sex pseudoscience. This won't end well for them.

This article attempts to critique the new definitions of sex announced by the @HHSGov, yet the new HHS statement completely anticipated their critiques and makes them entirely irrelevant.

Thread 🧵... Sex is all about gametes, or "reproductive cells." Other traits—which emerge during puberty—are considered "secondary sex characteristics" because they are a downstream effect of sex, not sex itself.

The "expert" cited here, Sam Sharpe, is a Ph.D. candidate at Kansas State University, and self-describes as “a trans and intersex person” who has “been involved in trans and intersex activism since 2016.” Sharpe has previously called for a “more inclusive understanding of sex diversity” and believes Lia Thomas (the male swimmer who won an NCAA Division I title in the women’s category) is being discriminated against for “failing to conform to expectations of cisnormative white femininity.”

Sharpe says that “biological sex is complex, variable, not fully understood, and definitely not a binary,” and has blamed the binary view of sex on “capitalism.”

Sharpe is an activist first, and a biologist second.

🚨ALERT: On Day 1, Trump signed an executive order affirming the reality that sex is binary, immutable, and based on gametes—not “gender identity.”

However, protecting women’s rights requires not only acknowledging biological reality but also PREVENTING EFFORTS TO HIDE IT. 🧵 Right now, 44 states allow their residents to amend their birth certificate's sex marker. Fifteen states will even issue NEW birth certificates without any indication that a change has been made, and all records linked to the original are sealed, accessible only by court order.

🚨ALERT: Former US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) has quietly removed his gender pronouns (he/him) from his 𝕏 and other social media profiles.

Gender ideology is absolutely toxic. Expect more Dems to start quietly distancing themselves from it. @PeteButtigieg Buttigieg added his gender pronouns to his bio in 2019.

Bill Nye the (pseudo)Science Guy has gone all in promoting gender woo and sex pseudoscience. He wrongly equates sex chromosomes and hormone levels with sex, and promotes the unscientific (& regressive) concept of "gender identity" for kids as young as 3.
I've written extensively on the false equivalence of sex chromosomes and sex, which you can read for free below. realityslaststand.com/p/sex-chromoso…

I can't reliably tell what's parody anymore in the woke world, but the identity flags seem to be proliferating due to the normalization of the "transabled" (i.e., able-bodied people who desires a specific disability) community.

🧵A brief tour (it gets a lot more insane) ⬇️ "Mixed" category

Transpluriabled / Transmultiabled: a physically non-pluridisabled individual who desires to acquire multiple disabilities, or feels as if they are or should be pluridisabled (someone with multiple disabilities).

Transill / Transnoso: someone who desires to acquire an illness/illnesses or disease/diseases (somatic or mental) that they don't physically have.

Diachrohna/Transchronichana: someone who wants or feels like they should have the fictional Hanahaki, Hanakanjo, or Hanauso Disease, chronically.

Disabledfluid: someone whose disability/incapacity-acquisition desires or disability/incapacity feeling/identification changes over time. It can change at random or it may vary in response to different circumstances.

Aerodisabled: when one's disability-desires-acquisition, disability/incapacity identification, or feeling changes based on the setting or atmosphere. This can refer to things like temperature, weather, time of day, time of year, elevation, etc.

🚨BREAKING: A brand new study in a peer-reviewed @SpringerNature journal—"Queering Babies"—sexualizes infants and exposes the ideological rot in academia.

The paper, which argues that surrogate babies are “queer creatures by default” and that perhaps all babies are inherently queer, stretches the boundaries of logic, coherence, and decency.

The author claims his paper "explores how encounters with [surrogate babies] disrupt or confirm normative expectations about the ‘babyness’ of babies, the ‘parentness’ of parents, and the interactions between these two."

He does this through a "autoethnographic account in dialogue with a collection of personal narratives from same-sex and different-sex parents to address the performative and relational aspects of this queerness."

The paper isn't merely absurd, it is also disturbing—it explicitly engages in the sexualization of infants.

The author recounts his daughter’s instinctual search for a breast during early skin-to-skin contact with him as “somewhat animalistic and perverse.” He describes a newborn’s attraction to breastfeeding as evoking "feelings of alienation and connotations of the sexual."

He then extends this strange sexualization by framing the connection between parent and child as inherently “gendered and sexual.” He writes: “The umbilical cord of 𝗍̶𝗋̶𝖺̶𝗎̶𝗆̶𝖺̶ shared fate, going back to the primal desire to 𝗅̶𝖺̶𝖼̶𝗍̶𝖺̶𝗍̶𝖾̶ connect and stay connected. And the future of connection—or this connected future—is always gendered and sexual.”

The author’s framing of queerness in infants also adds to the disturbing subtext of sexualization. Queerness, as he defines it earlier in the paper, inherently carries connotations of “sexualized strangeness.” To ascribe this quality to infants—who are incapable of sexual agency—is both inappropriate and disturbing. By defining queerness in this way, Boross is conflating its sexual meanings with infant behavior, dangerously blurring boundaries that should remain clear and unambiguous.

See the post below for a link to my full report.
If academia is to regain its credibility, it must return to the principles of rigorous inquiry and empirical validation, rejecting the postmodern tendencies that have allowed such works to thrive.
realityslaststand.com/p/queering-bab…

It's hard to convey how unregulated and extreme "gender medicine" is compared to literally all other medical practices.

Consider these two recent cases from different medical fields:

1. Two days ago, a popular YouTube podiatrist known as The Toe Bro had his license suspended for five months for failing to detect toe cancer in a patient that resulted in the patient needing to have the toe amputated.

2. Today, top youth gender doctor, Johanna Olson-Kennedy, faces a lawsuit by a patient who was prescribed puberty blockers at age 12 after just one consultation and without prior therapy. Olson-Kennedy is accused of pressuring the patient’s parents to consent to the treatment by citing the widely debunked "suicide myth"—that their daughter would likely commit suicide without it. She also authorized cross-sex hormones for the patient at age 13 and wrote a letter of support for the patient's double mastectomy at age 14 that lied about the duration of the patient's transgender identity.

This isn't the first patient Olson-Kennedy has rushed to transition. She has a reputation for advocating the removal of medical safeguards for youth distressed about their sex.

Despite this, she and many other gender doctors, known for similar extreme practices, continue to practice experimental "gender-affirming care" without convincing evidence of benefit and amid a host of known harms.

The Toe Bro made a genuine mistake that resulted in a cancerous toe being amputated, and his license gets suspended for 5 months. Meanwhile, gender doctors like Olson-Kennedy regularly bypass medical safeguards to amputate healthy body parts without sound medical reasons and face no consequences.

How does any of this make sense? The Toe Bro video ⬇️

Get ready for insanity.

This new peer-reviewed paper in the a @SpringerNature journal, uses "feminist blue posthumanities to reimagine...how brine shrimp are perceived in science, culture, and art."

The paper "introduced the concept of hydrosexuality" to enrich "feminist blue posthumanities and feminist biology through art-based practices and queer advocacy." Its use of the "hydrosexual perspective challenges settler science by exploring the connections between the reproductive system of brine shrimp and the economy, ecology and culture."

Its analysis "draws inspiration from low trophic theory and Queer Death Studies" to "gradually alter white humans' perceptions and understandings of brine shrimp."

I gotta say, this might dethrone the classic Feminist Glaciology paper for Most Insane Paper Ever. I am convinced that @ConceptualJames, @peterboghossian, and @HelenPluckrose are behind this! @SpringerNature Link to paper ⬇️
link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🚨BREAKING: The @nytimes and @business killed stories at the 11th hour covering new research on DEI pedagogy and its negative psychological impacts.

The study showed that certain DEI practices increase hostility, authoritarian tendencies, and agreement with extreme rhetoric. 🧵 The study was conducted by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) in collaboration with Rutgers University. It investigated the psychological effects of DEI pedagogy, specifically trainings that draw heavily from texts like How to Be an Antiracist and White Fragility.

🚨BREAKING: Laura Helmuth has resigned as Editor-in-Chief of Scientific American after over four years in the role. During her tenure, she transformed @sciam from a widely respected, objective popular science magazine into a science-themed, woke political publication. Her resignation follows a series of (now deleted) unhinged posts she made on Bluesky on election night. She has since apologized for the posts, and assured readers that her political views do not compromise the "editorial objectivity" at Scientific American.

Yeah, right.

I demand an explanation from the @NIH and @genome_gov as to why I was just kicked out of their public event "Exploring the many dimensions of sex and gender in the genomics era," which I had registered for in advance and was quietly attending.

About 20 minutes into Dr. Tucker Pyle's session titled "Sex and Gender in the Clinic," a window popped up stating, "The host has removed you from the webinar."
When I tried to rejoin the webinar, I was told I could not rejoin.
According to the event description, this is a "public two-day National Institutes of Health (NIH) symposium" that "brings together experts from the biological and social sciences to clarify and contextualize – but not resolve - the complexities around sex, gender, and genomics by considering them in their scientific, ethical, and historical contexts."
I was not disruptive and could not have been, even if I had wanted to, because the webinar was view-only. I did not submit any questions in the Q&A chat window either. I was just quietly watching.

I signed up for the webinar because, as a scientist involved in influencing policy on sex and gender, I wanted to gain a deeper understanding of how these concepts are being applied in medicine and genomics. If anyone should be attending this event, it's me.

The event claims to be an "interdisciplinary conversation," yet the speaker lineup consists entirely of ideologically aligned sex and gender activists who promote radical and pseudoscientific views of sex and gender.

Additionally, @TomasBogardus, an academic who has also voiced dissent from activist orthodoxy on sex and gender issues, was removed from the event around the same time I was.

This is completely unacceptable.

I demand that Eric D. Green (@NHGRI_Director), the director of the @genome_gov at the @NIH, who gave the opening remarks, explain why Dr. Bogardus and I were kicked out of the event.

I wrote about this event shortly after it was announced in May. See my article below for the details.
city-journal.org/article/nih-ho…

🚨A new study explored the most effective way to brainwash children into accepting gender ideology.

Researchers had kids watch either a story video of Jazz Jennings, who is said to have "a girl brain but boy body," or of a marker named Blue who has "a blue inside but a red outside."

They found that "a direct, realistic story was the only effective means of teaching children about transgender identities and reducing the belief in gender immutability." These are some excerpts from the scripts of the story videos with screenshots. The stories are nearly identical except for "boy" and "girl" in Jazz's story being replaced with "red" and "blue" for Blue's the marker's story.