Gender Critical Science

A good systematic review addresses issues of cherry picking. The right search terms and clear inclusion and exclusion criteria address these concerns. So long as authors provide sufficient information about their search strategy and use a robust appraisal tool that is consistently applied to all included papers, then you should be able to see whether cherry picking has taken place or not.

& I worked in big pharma for a decade; cherry picking data & bias in reporting is almost human nature....

I dont think I am a pure enough scientist any more to be of any use to you all but I would love to help - make you all tea & cake G&T & do the photocopying (i nearly wrote faxing ).

Brilliant women with brilliant plans

Thanks MsBeaujangles and Ereshkigal for responding to my journal access plea

Like actual science and everything

Are you implying that I didn't need to say that explicitly?

I appreciate i may have expressed it in a bit of a twatty way, but it really does need saying. I worked in academia for ~20 years. In Russell group universities and cherry picking is rife, at all levels, including among senior academics.

I'm not a scientist but I work in a scientific institution and can follow studies etc and have thoroughly researched all angles of the gender debate. Also have journal access.

For the record, noting that we all have biases, and I am certainly approaching this with my own, I intend to use my scientific training to do my best to look at all the evidence and not cherry pick what suits my agenda.

Like actual science and everything.

Not a scientist here but I just wanted to say I think this is fantastic. Well done you lot.

Physics / computing / machine learning / some stats / limited time

I supervise doctoral research and teach research methodology and appraisal techniques. I have access to medical and social sciences databases and have full access to articles in psychological and medical journals, so am happy to help people access papers

Terfulike If you send me a message on Reddit once you've signed up (I'm OldmanOfTheWeb on there), I can show you the subreddit and Wiki I created if that's useful. If it's not wanted, I'll delete it. I don't mind.

OOOOH! A statistician

Poss. interested. Psych background with a preference for stats.

look at all the evidence and not cherry pick what suits my agenda.

If our science doesn't do that, it isn't science.
Quite. But its so easy to do...

Crackisback great to hear it! Do you think many medics worry about being perceived as gender critical?

BTW, we could really do with people with institutional affiliations that give them access to journals. I'm finding lots of stuff I would like to look at behind paywalls and am missing my University login privileges

look at all the evidence and not cherry pick what suits my agenda.

If our science doesn't do that, it isn't science.

I’d be interested. I’m a medic. Tbh I think gender critical views are pretty mainstream in the medical profession.

I'm kind of out there now anyway (real life name account on twitter). I don't plan on saying anything I wouldn't say and be willing to defend irl.

I do understand that some may need to be careful because of work etc., or be worried about becoming a target for TRAs. (and think it's ridiculous and telling that anyone should be made to feel like that).

For the record, noting that we all have biases, and I am certainly approaching this with my own, I intend to use my scientific training to do my best to look at all the evidence and not cherry pick what suits my agenda.

I think terfulike needs to make a decision on how to proceed re. platform, given this was her idea

Just wanted to say that this is a great idea

Why? Because it is a kind offer but no one knows who anyone is here so best to be cautious.

That would be the one OldMan

Totally true. If people just want me to talk them through setting it up / copy what I did so that I'm not an admin, I'm fine with that. For my history, I'm on Twitter as OldmanOfTheWeb so people can see I haven't just appeared. I hope people on here know each other well enough that a secure Moderator list can be built at least.

This sounds a great idea! I have no relevant skills or qualifications but I wish you the best of luck.

Can I just sound a note of caution and remind you all to be really careful sharing RL details / inviting people you don't know to join groups etc.?

It stinks to have to be paranoid but as thebewilderness says, on the internet nobody knows you're a potato, and there has been more than one group that has had trouble with 'moles'.