Quote (Skinned @ Aug 3 2020 04:31pm)

Since increased crime is a function of a decreased economy we will see more crime as the economy keeps going in the toilet.

Hopefully we will get on the right track after November.


And the rich person's feeling index isn't really indicative on real measures of the economy in America.

Quote (theCrossbones @ Aug 3 2020 02:11pm)

Hmmmm

I would say 80% of the NFL is black.. I don't think they really had a choice but to contribute.
Kaep.. LOL he is one of the most hated black man in America.. That worked out well for him.
Every "ghot" in the country is crying about sports right now boycotting etc. its the riots that have gotten that message pushed.. I don't like it but its true.. Nothing but STFU was happening prior.

Quote (Thor123422 @ Aug 3 2020 02:17pm)

When I say "nonviolence does nothing" I'm obviously being hyperbolic. What I mean is "nonviolence is necessary but not sufficient to affect significant change in the material circumstances of oppressed minority groups"

That much is obvious just from our current circumstances. Significant change was not even on the table until a Target got burned down.

Quote (thesnipa @ Aug 3 2020 03:40pm)

protests rarely work out well for the protester, and even by that standard Kaep has had a great time of things compared to MLK, Malcolm X, and thousands of others from the bygone era.

Ferguson Riots didn't change much of anything, it was when BLM became a staple of NFL coverage that the needle started to move. Previous to that all we got was the Ferguson effect and a few bodycams.

i dont like Kaep, personally, but i wont deny he did have a serious impact.

you may be hyperbolic, but many aren't. follow Cthagod on instagram and see his anti-MLK pro-Baldwin rhetoric. its common for many these days.

the most effective kind of protest is a non-violent one that is met with violence. whether it was a sit in at a lunch counter or Kaep getting threatened by rednecks. if u keep ur cool and they lose it you win. violence met with violence, or non violence met with people ignoring you are both far less effective for actual change.

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“the results demonstrated no advantage of surgery in relation to subsequent mood or anxiety disorder-related health care.”

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Individuals diagnosed with gender incongruence who had received gender-affirming surgery were more likely to be treated for anxiety disorders compared with individuals diagnosed with gender incongruence who had not received gender-affirming surgery.

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Writing at Public Discourse (the Journal of the Witherspoon Institute, which I edit), Regnerus praised the study for having such a robust dataset. But he pointed out oddities in the way the authors presented the results to the public, and which results the media touted.

For example, Regnerus highlighted that “the study found no mental health benefits for hormonal interventions in this population.”

He also pointed out that in a dataset of 9.7 million people, the results of the original analysis the authors put forward hinged on the outcomes of just three people:

The study’s trumpeted conclusion may hinge on as few as three people in a data collection effort reaching 9.7 million Swedes, 2,679 of whom were diagnosed with gender incongruence and just over 1,000 of whom had gender-affirming surgery.

Furthermore, Regnerus noted how small the impact of any given surgery was, that a clinic would need to perform 49 surgeries before it could expect a patient to benefit—hence the plural in the original paper’s title: surgeries.

As Regnerus put it, “the beneficial effect of surgery is so small that a clinic may have to perform 49 gender-affirming surgeries before they could expect to prevent one additional person from seeking subsequent mental health assistance.”

Quote (ofthevoid @ Aug 3 2020 04:34pm)

Which lives matter more? The sick and the old who are disproportionally affected by COVID or the poor & minorities who bear the brunt of violent crime, specifically murders in large metros.

Quote (Goomshill @ Aug 3 2020 06:21pm)

https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.1778correction
https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/appi.ajp.2019.19010080?journalCode=ajp

Correction issued for the American Journal of Psychiatry's paper from October 2019 on the medical efficacy of gender transition surgery / hormone therapy.



in fact they found the outcomes were worse:


From the criticisms of the original study that led to the correction;



So its another case of oops we accidentally came to the completely opposite conclusion and had to correct ourselves to make our widely publicized study say the opposite of what we concluded.
I find it all too ironic that the original flawed paper is publicly available but the correction is pay-walled. I mean fucking hell, talk about misinformation distribution

The study with the largest sample size in the world on the benefits of SRS/HRT has found it makes things worse. But don't tell the APA, they won't revise the DSM5 any time soon.

Quote (Goomshill @ Aug 3 2020 05:21pm)

https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.1778correction
https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/appi.ajp.2019.19010080?journalCode=ajp

Correction issued for the American Journal of Psychiatry's paper from October 2019 on the medical efficacy of gender transition surgery / hormone therapy.

in fact they found the outcomes were worse:

From the criticisms of the original study that led to the correction;

So its another case of oops we accidentally came to the completely opposite conclusion and had to correct ourselves to make our widely publicized study say the opposite of what we concluded.
I find it all too ironic that the original flawed paper is publicly available but the correction is pay-walled. I mean fucking hell, talk about misinformation distribution

The study with the largest sample size in the world on the benefits of SRS/HRT has found it makes things worse. But don't tell the APA, they won't revise the DSM5 any time soon.