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The hosts issue a major boob-related correction, talk about TikTok influencers who (appear to) have dissociative identity disorder, and discuss the recent meltdown of a site that (claims that it) is "science-based." Plus: Some other, often-cringeworthy recent skepticism/atheism history, including Elevatorgate (tm).
Maria Taylor out: https://www.si.com/media/2021/07/21/maria-taylor-espn-split-nbc-likely-next
Scott Lilienfeld and Hal Arkowitz, a bit skeptical of Dissociative Identity Disorder in Scientific American: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-people-have-multiple-personalities/
Input on the DID subculture on TikTok: https://www.inputmag.com/culture/dissociative-identity-disorder-did-tiktok-influencers-multiple-personalities
@theasystem and @systemspouse:
https://www.tiktok.com/@theasystem/video/6987819970646265094
https://www.tiktok.com/@systemspouse/video/6987084259601157382
https://www.tiktok.com/@systemspouse/video/6985581388808473862
One of the stranger subreddits you'll see: https://www.reddit.com/r/DIDCringe/
Science-Based Medicine's very bad and error-riddled coverage of Irreversible Damage:
Novella and Gorski: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-science-of-transgender-treatment/
Lovell: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/abigail-shriers-irreversible-damage-a-wealth-of-irreversible-misinformation/
Eckert:
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/irreversible-damage-to-the-trans-community-a-critical-review-of-abigail-shriers-book-irreversible-damage-part-one/
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/irreversible-damage-to-the-trans-community-a-critical-review-of-abigail-shriers-book-irreversible-damage-the-transgender-craze-seducing-our-daughters-part-two/
Jesse's responses:
Leaked email about Jesse that treats Gorcenski and James as credible sources: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1412511853067051010
Gorcenski: "If you wonder if there's anyone who I dislike more than the Nazis who assaulted me and nearly killed me, there is at least one person and his name is Jesse Singal."
Jesse on Gorcenski: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/a-sorta-quick-response-to-the-errors
Some background on Andrea James: http://alicedreger.com/in_fear
Longer but free, and tells the whole story: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170124/
Rebecca Watson Wikipedia page with some information on Elevatorgate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Watson
Her account of what happened:
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The hosts issue a major boob-related correction, talk about TikTok influencers who (appear to) have dissociative identity disorder, and discuss the recent meltdown of a site that (claims that it) is "science-based." Plus: Some other, often-cringeworthy recent skepticism/atheism history, including Elevatorgate (tm).
Maria Taylor out: https://www.si.com/media/2021/07/21/maria-taylor-espn-split-nbc-likely-next
Scott Lilienfeld and Hal Arkowitz, a bit skeptical of Dissociative Identity Disorder in Scientific American: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-people-have-multiple-personalities/
Input on the DID subculture on TikTok: https://www.inputmag.com/culture/dissociative-identity-disorder-did-tiktok-influencers-multiple-personalities
@theasystem and @systemspouse:
https://www.tiktok.com/@theasystem/video/6987819970646265094
https://www.tiktok.com/@systemspouse/video/6987084259601157382
https://www.tiktok.com/@systemspouse/video/6985581388808473862
One of the stranger subreddits you'll see: https://www.reddit.com/r/DIDCringe/
Science-Based Medicine's very bad and error-riddled coverage of Irreversible Damage:
Novella and Gorski: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-science-of-transgender-treatment/
Lovell: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/abigail-shriers-irreversible-damage-a-wealth-of-irreversible-misinformation/
Eckert:
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/irreversible-damage-to-the-trans-community-a-critical-review-of-abigail-shriers-book-irreversible-damage-part-one/
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/irreversible-damage-to-the-trans-community-a-critical-review-of-abigail-shriers-book-irreversible-damage-the-transgender-craze-seducing-our-daughters-part-two/
Jesse's responses:
Leaked email about Jesse that treats Gorcenski and James as credible sources: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1412511853067051010
Gorcenski: "If you wonder if there's anyone who I dislike more than the Nazis who assaulted me and nearly killed me, there is at least one person and his name is Jesse Singal."
Jesse on Gorcenski: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/a-sorta-quick-response-to-the-errors
Some background on Andrea James: http://alicedreger.com/in_fear
Longer but free, and tells the whole story: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170124/
Rebecca Watson Wikipedia page with some information on Elevatorgate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Watson
Her account of what happened:
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