Shawn Smith

Disciple | Husband | Father | Registrar | Church Historian | Guitarist | Runner

[Shawn Smith @Shawn_Smith1]

My review of *A History of Evangelism in North America* edited by Thomas P. Johnson for the @SC_Journal
https://t.co/QXvlPyadgo

[Paul Graham @paulg]

A Brown professor gave his students a take-home midterm exam. After suspecting many cheated using AI, he made the final in-person. The orange dots are the midterm scores and the gray dots are the final scores. Looks like all but 3 cheated on the midterm.

[Leor Sapir @LeorSapir]

An excellent overview of the debate by @LisaSelinDavis, and a good article to send to open-minded friends, family, and colleagues. 👇

[Shawn Smith @Shawn_Smith1]

Can't go wrong with an Idina Menzel version https://t.co/wuq4xe0oQH

[Shawn Smith @Shawn_Smith1]

A new NA to try.

Color is nice. Hop aroma is weak. Mouth feel is good. Hop flavor is there, but not citrus. Common backend bitterness like some IPAs that I don't love. Definitely not even close to as enjoyable as the Sam Adams Just the Haze Hazy IPA.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

WHO MADE THIS!? I’m dying.

[Shawn Smith @Shawn_Smith1]

"At the heart of Alabama’s latest death penalty controversy is Jeffery Lee, who became a Christian mentor to other incarcerated men on death row. Opponents to Lee’s execution ask courts to 'choose life.'"
https://t.co/PJDZnmfMOS

[Shawn Smith @Shawn_Smith1]

"Current legislation requires training on different topics on a regular basis, and I need to finish up my training on FERPA, IT security, and sexual harassment, or they dock my pay."
https://t.co/qksnjY2SDd

[Kristin M. Collier, MD @HSRdirector]

“Although eugenics became unpopular after WWII its ideology has persisted especially in medicine.

Behind every prenatal screening test lies an appraisal of how much the rest of us stand to gain if a disability is detected and the child is destroyed.” https://t.co/5LPDywbgkA

[Shawn Smith @Shawn_Smith1]

Time for the penne-tentiary

[CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil @CBSEveningNews]

Police say a 28-year-old California man allegedly bought expensive LEGO sets, kept the pieces and returned the boxes filled with dry pasta. Authorities say the scheme was repeated about 70 times nationwide before he was caught.

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter]

'We need to reassess': The evolution of one gender care doctor

She was one of the first doctors in Canada to provide hormones to trans-identifying youth. She now believes most kids should not be medicalized.

https://t.co/yu50I41hAr

[Shawn Smith @Shawn_Smith1]

"In October, correct answers were ungrounded 37 percent of the time. In February, with Gemini 3, that figure rose to 56 percent."
https://t.co/dbhf8fAfox

[Shawn Smith @Shawn_Smith1]

@benryanwriter Are outlets going to cover it? I can only really find a few conservative ones.

[Secular Pro-Life @secularprolife]

New study finds no relationship between abortion bans and maternal mortality

[Robert P. George @McCormickProf]

Fascinating article by Columbia University sociologist Musa al-Gharbi:

"The well-being gap between liberals and conservatives is one of the most robust patterns in social science research."

Read here:
https://t.co/pQmIaMR7eL

[James Cantor @JamesCantorPhD]

"Among adolescents who underwent medical gender reassignment, psychiatric morbidity increased markedly during follow-up—rising from 9.8% to 60.7% in feminising gender re-assignment and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising gender reassignment."
Ruuska 2026 https://t.co/iJ6gBLwrgA

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter]

HOW GENDER MEDICINE SET ITSELF UP FOR DISASTER

For @CompactMag, I report on what the 100s of WPATH conference videos I obtained tell us about this troubled field: https://t.co/GIXlCkUwaO

👉I 'll be publishing the conference videos on my Substack: https://t.co/8SwnUCyCUI

As I write for Compact magazine:

This catalogue, which the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, or WPATH, fought to keep shielded, provides a rich account of how leading figures in pediatric gender medicine approached scientific research, drove the evolution of medical practices, and strategized politically during a critical turning point in this field’s brief and tortured history. The two years following Chase Strangio’s 2021 address were a period in which statehouse Republicans escalated their attacks on this field. The WPATH conference presenters largely responded to the political siege by doubling down. Rather than engage in soul searching over whether their methods in pediatrics were ethically sound and whether any criticisms had merit, they overwhelmingly stuck to their guns.

Presenters frequently downplayed fundamental hazards about irrevocably altering adolescents’ bodies. Meanwhile, a parade of systematic reviews—the gold standard of scientific evidence—was concluding that the evidencebacking pediatric gender medicine is weak and inconclusive. These findings have led health authorities in a number of European nations, concerned about risks such as infertility, to reverse course. They reclassified pediatric gender-transition interventions as experimental and sharply restricted minors’ access.

Not WPATH. The organization remained on an inexorable trajectory in the opposite direction, toward its eventual head-on collision with the second Trump administration.

For highlight clips, see the 🧵👇

[Shawn Smith @Shawn_Smith1]

It's the 6th Day of Christmas. You can still listen to Christmas music.

[Shawn Smith @Shawn_Smith1]

Something to keep an eye on
https://t.co/yqEnlKhA73

[Shawn Smith @Shawn_Smith1]

"Biblical tax notice: 1st-ever Assyrian inscription found near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount"
https://t.co/8PJ9WWw9vR