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@doctorgenes.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine; Alzheimer's Geneticist; Friend to One and All

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Here's a simple example how: some diseases have sex disparities. If you look at male vs. female sex hormone level differences, trans women taking hormones will have hormone levels similar to women, so including them as males may bias or weaken associations, missing important findings.

03.02.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Terrifying. Censorship in science will lead to imprecision; imprecision will lead to incorrect inferences; incorrect inferences will lead the science in unproductive directions. Need an example? Google 'Lysenkoism.' It destroyed genetics research in the Eastern bloc.

03.02.2025 11:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.

Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

01.02.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 7679    πŸ” 4305    πŸ’¬ 573    πŸ“Œ 1631

Congratulations! Fantastic news

04.12.2024 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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