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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Scientific American "Trans girls belong on girls' sports teams"

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andyoldlabour · 29/03/2021 12:30

I shall now refer to them as "Unscientific American". The following article was written by Jack Turban, a phsychologist who researches the mental health of transgender youth. It also appears that Jack Turban has received $15,000 from Arbor Pharmaceuticals, a company which produces puberty blockers - Triptodur. He also maintains that there is no scientific reason to exclude trans girls from girl's sport.
Unscientific American is a previously respected publication, with articles by Einstein etc.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/trans-girls-belong-on-girls-sports-teams/?fbclid=IwAR3I0sWYSpM6hA_ubWXen2MltFTdhnq-JQCqSr2UMOXL3EyWPJj8JGabYhM

uncommongroundmedia.com/jack-turban-investigated-americal-medical-association/?fbclid=IwAR0Yog-UuSyO96YV2EsIWY02VyVnGxA76jeh3XN0tgySFJwxabAH9qKF34w

www.jackturban.com/

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TheBiologyStupid · 16/12/2022 11:12

FOJN · 16/12/2022 06:32

waterwitch

Unfortunately peer review is no longer an indicator of academic rigor. Three academics did an experiment a few years ago where they wrote several made up papers in academic fields they had no expertise in and submitted them to well respected peer reviewed journals in order to find out just how far the rot had gone. Some of the papers were accepted and published, including one where they claimed to have inspected the genitals of 10,000 dogs in a dog park whilst questioning the owners about their sexual orientation!

Generally known as "The Grievance Studies" affair it cased quite a stir. You might think I would have been a wake up call for academia but it was the author's of the paper who were demonised.

The Grievance Studies hoax was brilliant - kudos to Peter Boghossian, James A. Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose. As a result of the hoaxes Boghossian was the subject of a research misconduct investigation by his employer, Portland State University (PSU), on the basis that he had violated the ethical guidelines by conducting research on human subjects without approval (namely the. unwitting journal editors who stupidly published the hoax articles). He left PSU shortly afterwards, saying in his resignation letter that the university was a "Social Justice factory", that he faced harassment and retaliation for speaking out, and that the university was creating a culture where students are "afraid to speak openly and honestly", training students to "mimic the moral certainty of ideologues", and "[driving] intolerance of divergent beliefs and opinions".

Wikipedia says:
Included among the articles that were published were arguments that dogs engage in rape culture and that men could reduce their transphobia by anally penetrating themselves with sex toys, as well as Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf rewritten in feminist language.[2][4] The first of these had won special recognition from the journal that published it.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair

The paper about dogs was titled "Human Reactions to Rape Culture and Queer Performativity at Urban Dog Parks in Portland, Oregon". (Of course it was Portland, Oregon! My woke sister lives nearby...)

nauticant · 16/12/2022 11:21

If you want to hear an account of current day academic rigour, have a listen to this very recent report from Jesse Singal on Blocked and Reported:

www.blockedandreported.org/p/episode-143-how-bidens-rogue-deputy

The report of interest starts at 23.55. It is an astonishing listen of how, for some, ideology has to trump reality, and of how ideologues have no qualms at all about spreading misrepresentation and lies to achieve ideologically pure ends.

EdithStourton · 16/12/2022 11:46

I wish articles would state who the reviewers were. That way you could see if you have a little circuit okaying each others' bullshit, and to know who to blame for not spotting egregious errors.

TheBiologyStupid · 16/12/2022 21:39

nauticant · 16/12/2022 11:21

If you want to hear an account of current day academic rigour, have a listen to this very recent report from Jesse Singal on Blocked and Reported:

www.blockedandreported.org/p/episode-143-how-bidens-rogue-deputy

The report of interest starts at 23.55. It is an astonishing listen of how, for some, ideology has to trump reality, and of how ideologues have no qualms at all about spreading misrepresentation and lies to achieve ideologically pure ends.

Interesting, thanks for the link. Jesse Singal is always good on this stuff.

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