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| A Brown University Researcher Released A Study About Teens Imitating Their Peers By Turning Trans. The Left Went Insane. So Brown Caved. |
| 2018-08-29 |
| h/t Instapundit This week, Brown University pulled down a news story on a study conducted by a Brown University researcher. That study focused in on what it described as "rapid-onset gender dysphoria": gender dysphoria that was not present in early youth, but that manifested within days or weeks in teens and young adults. The study author, Lisa Littman, assistant professor of the practice of behavioral and social sciences at Brown’s School of Public Health, Kiss your academic career goodbay, Lisa stated, "This kind of descriptive study is important because it defines a group and raises questions for more research. One of the main conclusions is that more research needs to be done. Descriptive studies aren’t randomized controlled trials ‐ you can’t tell cause and effect, and you can’t tell prevalence. It’s going to take more studies to bring in more information, but this is a start." Littman did talk to 250 parents of children who suffered from rapid-onset gender dysphoria. ...This suggests that the drive to transition expressed by these teens and young adults could be a harmful coping mechanism like drugs, alcohol or cutting, Littman said. ...In any case, this Brown University study could not stand ‐ any effort to actually research the environmental component of transgenderism is met with raucous calls for censorship. And Brown immediately caved. The University pulled down a news article about the study. Realistically, Brown and the journal in which the original comment was published, PLOS ONE, PLOS ONE once published a creationist article: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0146193 turned against the study because it offended politically correct sensibilities about transgenderism. Things like this been going on for years - that's why Academia, including the putative "Sciences" is such a cesspit of unimaginative second raters and outright fakers |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #8 Mental illness is contagious. It can also be taught. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2018-08-29 18:08 |
| #7 Actually the study just shows that the parents didn't know about transgender friends their children might have had until the kid actually came out. That's just teen survival and probably doesn't really mean much. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-08-29 17:34 |
| #6 I remember the short lived acclaim for The Bell Curve, when facts and popularist metaphor clashed, destabilizing the bicameroids. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-08-29 13:14 |
| #5 "Rapid-onset gender dysphoria" more about getting attention and standing out than actually being a transgender? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-08-29 12:35 |
| #4 I ceased donating to my schools 17 years ago, and told them why. They no longer even ask. Their endowments continue to grow, so I guess they’re doing it ‘right.’ |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2018-08-29 10:55 |
| #3 ...until the purse strings are cut, for now with spineless if not sympathetic apparatchiks who run the places. It's all part of the anti-Western Civ movement. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-08-29 10:04 |
| #2 Could someone remind me what part of the discipline of science says to bow to the PC? |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-08-29 09:52 |
| #1 ...Trofim Lysenko nods. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2018-08-29 05:01 |