welcome to fresh hyperfixation hell

L, he/him, 27, shitpost enthusiast [minors pls DNI]

[communistmeme]

[release-the-sheep]

just witnessed something devastating

guy on the subway with one ear pierced, little gold hoop. other guy on the subway very quickly and subtly googling "which one is the gay ear". it is not the gay ear. visible disappointment on his face as he puts his phone away.

[pippastrelle]

Penelope: Yeah, this shroud is taking me 20 years.

Suitors:

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

are people talking about the labor conditions at Taylor Farms yet? like the fact they use enslaved prisoners in their facilities?

are we drawing the connection between worker safety and consumer safety & public health yet?

are people demanding to see the conditions in this place that keeps making us sick? why are the enslaved workers not having the time to use the bathroom or to rest when ill? very few people would shit in front of their coworkers given any choice at all.

[tpwrtrmnky]

"Waah waah but what if I don't like it when my intended-as-apolitical work gets analysed and people start claiming it has reactionary politics" so this can be avoided by developing a better understanding of politics

[innerchildabortionclinic]

good morning everyone it's time to be tortured to insanity and then of course tortured for being insane

[seracadash]

(goverment voice) we need to protect the children from pornography so our plan is to remove their eyes so they would never see something so traumatic. if you are against removing children's eyes you are basically a pedophile

[cryptotheism]

Imagine a bladeless knife with no handle. Now put the handle back. Now put the blade back. Yaaaay! everything okay! Yaaaaaaay!

[medievaljournalist]

every bad thing in the entire world is due to the dark sorcerer if we just kill the dark sorcerer i bet everything will be amazing something amazing will happen

[communistkenobi]

something that's always stuck with me is Adorno's critique of liberal research on fascism - that liberal scientists believe you can approach fascism in good faith by simply asking Nazis what they think about the world and then writing it down. He argued that fascism is itself a bad faith ideology, and that Nazis will not usually answer the question "do you want to exterminate all minorities?" truthfully, especially not when asked by academics (who are all Marxists/Jews/etc plotting to destroy civilization). So in order to accurately capture fascist sentiment, you have to conceal your intentions and basically lie to them. And there are real moral imperatives for social scientists to do this, in the same way that journalists go undercover in white supremacist groups to report on their activities and beliefs. There's even that famous East German documentary where the directors lied to a Nazi military leader about being West German filmmakers, got him drunk, and then just filmed him saying Nazi shit lol. So like the conventions of science itself, the idea that good research is necessarily always transparent, is a political assumption that shapes how you conduct research and acquire knowledge

[junglejim4322]

I live a very balanced life of noticing things nobody else does and not noticing the things that literally everybody notices

[bugs-are-buddies]

I think the lipstick looks really nice actually, and maybe this was the pig's first night out in a long time.

[goodgrammaritan]

[3000s]

elvis died because it wasnt getting enough fiber

[3000s]

ive never fucked up someones pronouns this badly before, sorry

[sewer-swan]

please stop trying to convince me the cause is righteous and convince me the tactics are effective

[tpwrtrmnky]

The parachute study is actually a wonderful piece of art because it demonstrates so succinctly the kind of situation where randomized controlled trials are not the gold standard of evidence, and in fact reach misleading conclusions.

Because you can't recruit people to willingly jump out of mid-flight passenger planes for science, you redesign the study to engineer a scenario where the risk to the control group is minimsed. The plane is landed.

And then, because you've removed the main reason to use a parachute, you find that parachutes have "no effect" on mortality or injury.

The constraints of performing an ethical RCT guarantee this result. A result that we obviously know is dangerously wrong to extrapolate to the real-life uses of parachutes.

Now here's the thing: The people insisting that "evidence-based medicine" says we need RCTs of trans healthcare know this is what they're doing. It's extremely well established that you can abuse these "standards" to engineer incorrect results.

SEGM and their ilk are doing this on purpose because they know it's an effective way to dress up science denial in a veneer of scientific rigor.

[disbelive]

How would one go about making such a study though?

As in, how would an RCT look like that attempts to create misleading data, when it comes to HRT or trans healthcare in general?

I agree with the post, I just can't think of a way to create a control group with that effect

[tpwrtrmnky]

Well, barring exceptionally fortunate cases like this one, where they were able to use "skip the conventional wait time" as the test group and "wait as usual" as the control, you sort of can't.

It's foundational medical ethics that when you have a treatment that's known to be effective, you don't withhold it for a study. The demand for RCTs is done knowing that it's unserious.

[sanguinifex]

The "gold standard" here would be some kind of quote-unquote "natural experiment" where you have 2 different countries that are very similar but one enforces wait times for trans care and the other doesn't, and then you compare outcomes for trans people in each country. Likewise, the "natural experiment" for parachutes would be crashes where people were able to eject with a parachute vs. crashes where they weren't. Or you could throw ballistics dummies out of planes.

Basically, the way you study this kind of thing is you look at where existing regulatory or other differences have created two different population groups, or you simulate it.

[tpwrtrmnky]

The interesting part there being that we know for a fact that the SEGM-affiliated gender clinics, many of them state monopolies, have worse outcomes than informed consent clinics.

Based on the extreme rates of patient complaints and high rates of patients being traumatized by the clinicians' behaviour, that is.

And yet, somehow, when these clinics self-incriminate in their research, it's taken as evidence that care needs to be restricted more.

[puppy-girl-gock]

> SEGM-affiliated gender clinics

Do you have knowledge of specific norwegian clinics that affiliate with SEGM? Not sure what clinics you're talking about

[tpwrtrmnky]

There is one singular gender clinic in all of Norway that actually treats patients of all ages with government funding, and the leader of their pediatric department, Anne Wæhre, goes to SEGM conferences.

[dogpuppy]

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[mod2amaryllis]

this is the Phoenix zoo, she's got plenty of outdoor space 👍

I'll also say she looks super healthy and happy in that video so she probably loves her cool concrete room #myconkrete