Thinker of Thoughts

Interested in undue influence in religious and secular social movements. Former Mormon, not anti. Physician. ROGD dad. Classical liberal.

[Thinker of Thoughts @totastuff]

@TaylorPetrey In the event that you haven't had your brain melted by academic philosophies that use word games for political projects and questionable moralistic justifications - these arguments are assertions attempting to disguise themselves as irrefutable fact.

[Thinker of Thoughts @totastuff]

@TaylorPetrey This checks out.

Bonus ponder: why do certain philosophical movements want to deconstruct things in ways that will also allow them to deconstruct age?

[Thinker of Thoughts @totastuff]

@TaylorPetrey At a normal university, someone will stab you in the back.

In gender studies, they’ll stab you in the back and then write a 40-page paper explaining that the knife is a social construct, your pain is gendered, and the real violence was the binary of “stabber” and “stabbed.”

[Thinker of Thoughts @totastuff]

@TaylorPetrey

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter]

BREAKING: 1st Detransitioner to Take a Medical-Malpractice Lawsuit to Trial Wins $2 Million Judgement

Fox Varian sued her Westchester, NY, area psychologist and plastic surgeon for the gender-transition mastectomy she got at 16.

I was the only reporter to attend the entire 3-week, historic trial. Subscribe to my Substack to receive an alert about the feature article I have coming out next week in a major publication out about the trial: https://t.co/dQRHZHqWHn. I cover pediatric gender medicine as a specialty on my Substack.

Sorry to just give just a teaser for now about the case! But I wanted to get the word out about the verdict promptly, the slower pace of feature-article publishing notwithstanding.

The entire case file was put under seal when the trial started (although I obtained all those documents before they was sealed), and all the transcripts from the trial are also under seal. The riveting trial was sparsely attended and there was only one other reporter at the trial; and he only attended for part of it and, as I observed, took few notes. So my own hundreds of pages of notes from the trial will likely remain the only way for the public to learn about the all finer details of what transpired, possibly ever (or until an appeal, should that happen).

In addition to my article coming out in the media outlet soon, I intend to write a lot about what I observed and learned on my Substack over the coming weeks. Stay tuned…

[Julia Mason MS MD @JuliaMasonMD1]

An Ob-Gyn turns her gimlet eye onto WPATH. Have you heard the sordid tale of the systematic reviews that were strangled in the crib by WPATH leadership?

[Deseret News Opinion @DeseretOpinion]

Replacing the sense of communal loss is complicated. — Betsy VanDenBerghe https://t.co/35pjavUetp

[Thinker of Thoughts @totastuff]

The Chinese Cultural Revolution showed how ideology can radicalize youth to commit atrocities, even against family.

This tale of a young man’s regret for turning in his mother, leading to her execution, is heartbreaking.

https://t.co/pvxwTxXg82

[Thinker of Thoughts @totastuff]

"Sticks and stones break bones, but words can never hurt me."

This principle protects free thought by separating speech from violence, preventing anyone from labeling speech as "violence" to justify real violent reprisals.

[Thinker of Thoughts @totastuff]

Equating speech with violence justifies real violence for words.

Freedom can't exist in such an environment.

[Thinker of Thoughts @totastuff]

Rape culture: "She dressed provocatively, she deserved it."

Assassination culture: "He spoke provocatively, he deserved it."

[Mia Hughes @_CryMiaRiver]

Today on Beyond Gender we interviewed Dr. Gordan Guyatt—the “godfather” of evidence-based medicine—who recently signed a statement calling paediatric gender medicine “medically necessary” despite knowing there is no good quality evidence that it is safe, beneficial and effective.

This particular clip is INCREDIBLE. When I asked him about it, his response was nothing short of astounding. He confessed he hadn’t bothered to read the statement he signed!

Guyatt is one of the most respected, distinguished doctors of our time, and his name carries tremendous 
weight. That he could so carelessly put his name to an activist talking point—one entirely unsupported by evidence—is not only bitterly ironic, but also profoundly damaging. It undermines the work of those of us fighting to counter the flood of misinformation spread by activists, WPATH, and the medical associations that have endorsed this scandal.

[Thinker of Thoughts @totastuff]

@JoelWBerry @wokal_distance This image paired with the “the purpose of a system is what it does” is my new NPC identifier

[Thinker of Thoughts @totastuff]

First Rule of Self-Doubt Club

[Thinker of Thoughts @totastuff]

The architects of the current state of discourse. How many can you recognize?

[Thinker of Thoughts @totastuff]

Sometimes being a Pedantic Semantic is useless and annoying....

Sometimes it is absolutely necessary.

(but still a little annoying)
@jordanbpeterson

[Thinker of Thoughts @totastuff]

@thatdoesntnms Figure out what kind of truth you are searching for first. It will matter

[Thinker of Thoughts @totastuff]

Any update or outcome here?

https://t.co/pxC7NunLFO

[justdad7 @justdad7]

1/ Things are not going well for Dr. Jason Rafferty, the primary author of the American Academy of Pediatrics Policy on gender affirming care for minors. He is a now a defendant in at least two lawsuits with more likely to follow.
https://t.co/468WaYod55

[Thinker of Thoughts @totastuff]

This remains relevant.

Did the @@AmerAcadPeds ever retire or revise this statement?

https://t.co/gcz7mMOmx5