The Skeptics Guide #995 - Aug 3 2024 (Ad Free)
Added 2024-08-03 15:33:30 +0000 UTCOIympic Controversy; News Items: Progeria Treatment, Solid State Battery, The Cass Review, Mammoth DNA; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: The Bacterial Flagellum; Science or Fiction
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For the truth about the fiction of Olympic dueling, here's an informative and interesting YouTube video. https://youtu.be/8IRvaCUYOoA?si=j5zLNjFi37eFk731
Dan Oberste
2024-08-09 16:37:45 +0000 UTCWe watched the shooting at work. My coworker said, "They're shaped like me. I could to that."
Asymetra
2024-08-05 06:28:27 +0000 UTCImane Khelif came up at work since she "failed" the "gender genetic test" (actually it was an unspecified gender eligibility test in 2023, which the IOC rejected and performed their own for which she was cleared). People "know" about intersex, but it's more Dunning-Kruger than factual information. The narrative being spouted is "He's trans! It's unfair to women in sports." Yeah, like they actually care about women in sports, maybe fairness, but certainly not pay, so, they only care about the narrative. Plus, being trans in Algeria is illegal. My suspicion is she might have undiagnosed DSD (Differences in Sexual Development), that tiny sliver of people that fall between the bimodal gender identities. Having studied DSD (for research as a layman), there are multiple ways for DSD to occur, the one I'm most aware of is Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS), it can be Complete (CAIS) or Partial (PAIS). AIS mean the body does not respond to testosterone, or only in some ways in the cases of PAIS, which can really result in gender ambiguity at birth (which actually happens more often than we think). To make things worse, JK Trowling has all but declared Khelif trans with her anti-trans rhetoric. I did make sure to respond to he Twitter account telling her she should do research first, you know, that thing she requires everyone else to do like when she declared the Nazis didn't burn research about transgender people, but hypocritically doesn't do herself. She's a serious case of walking, breathing logical fallacies. While the punishment for being trans in Algeria is up to three years in prison, vigilante executions are not unheard of with police joining in. Khelif could literally be killed and JKR will sit up in her ivory tower having contributed to it without consequence.
Asymetra
2024-08-05 06:13:19 +0000 UTCYour discussion about trans healthcare is relevant to another rather obnoxious Olympics controversy surrounding boxer Imane Khelif. These “transvestigators” are dangerous. Just like a radical and fundamentalist church might do, they slowly but surely widen their net of who they target with their nonsense. It’s actually kind of eerie how retroactively relevant this news item is to that situation.
Drock Drack
2024-08-04 08:39:04 +0000 UTCCould "toy mammoths" be toilet-trained? That could get quite messy.
Chris Holder
2024-08-04 01:16:51 +0000 UTC
