Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.
The Federalist is of course a right-wing site, but this situation must have given it a dilemma. The censorship described below reflects badly on Israel, a country that the Right tends to support, but it also comes down on Left-wing censoriousness, in this case demonization of the notorious (but good) book by Abigail Shrier, Irreversible … Continue reading Now Israel is censoring and demonizing Abigail Shrier’s book
We all remember Abigail Shrier from her controversial first book, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, which pointed out the huge increase in the number of adolescent girls who wanted to transition to becoming trans males, attributing some of the rise by the egging-on of gender dysphoric adolescents by social media to go … Continue reading Abigail Shrier has a new book on where therapy for the young went wrong
I suppose it’s only natural that if you consider yourself a Leftist—even a “progressive” one—and you get disemboweled by your side for saying something politically offensive to your side, you will get resentful of your erstwhile allies. In some cases, I think, these people can be driven rightwards, either on the whole or at least … Continue reading Abigail Shrier on the Left’s targeting of gender issues
I’d forgotten that Abigail Shrier had a Substack column called “The Truth Fairy“, and so I would have missed this wonderful talk (in transcript) had several readers not sent me the link. It is a talk that Shrier gave to a group of students at Princeton, hosted by the Princeton Tory, the Witherspoon Institute, and … Continue reading Abigail Shrier speaks truth to Princeton
CSICon, run by the Center for Inquiry, looks to me like the modern-day version of James Randi’s Amazing Meeting, which was also held yearly in Las Vegas, and emphasized science and reason. I loved those meetings, and I’m going to the CSICon meeting this October as a speaker. You can see the lineup of stars … Continue reading CSICon lineup for this fall
On June 22 I reported on a sort of “cancellation”. The respected website Science-Based Medicine (SBM), at the urging of editors David Gorski and Steve Novella, removed a review of a book by one of the other editors, physician Harriet Hall. As I wrote at the time: So much the worse, then, that the site … Continue reading Ex-editor of Science-Based Medicine chews the site’s tuchas for its treatment of Abigail Shrier’s book
Yesterday I reported on the site Science-Based Medicine’s defense of their “deplatforming” a book review written by one of their own editors, Dr. Harriet Hall. Hall had written a favorable review of Abigail Shrier’s book Irreversible Damage, itself about the dangers of transsexual adolescents undertaking medical treatment prematurely or without proper guidance. Hall approved the … Continue reading More on Abigail Shrier, Harriet Hall, Science-Based Medicine, Jesse Singal, and transitioning
Among American politics, nothing pains me more right now than college students supporting the Palestinian desire to erase Israel. Further, this week those sentiments often came with approval of Hamas’s butchery a week ago. (After all, didn’t Israel bring it on itself?) Yet, as Bill Maher notes in the short video below, Palestine (and Hamas) … Continue reading Anti-Israeli protests and sentiments at American colleges
