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  • Richard Simmons
    2024/10/25

    Part 1: The Early Years

    Before building his fitness empire, America’s most bedazzled fitness guru was a guy named Milton from New Orleans.

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    • Still Hungry...After All These Years by Richard Simmons
    • "Hair-Do"
    • Anatomy Asylum Commercial
    • Richard Simmons: New Orleans's hometown hero
    • A Speedy History of America’s Addiction to Amphetamine

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  • The Myers-Briggs Personality Test
    2024/09/12

    How a mother, a daughter and a crackpot Swiss psychologist gave us the world's most popular Buzzfeed quiz.

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    • The Personality Brokers by Merve Emre
    • Myers Briggs Type Preferences
    • What Personality Tests Really Deliver
    • The $2 Billion Question of Who You Are at Work
    • Cautionary Comments Regarding the MBTI
    • The Barnum Effect in Personality Assessment
    • The Mysterious Popularity Of The Meaningless Myers-Briggs
    • Why the Myers-Briggs personality test is totally meaningless
    • Can you truly know yourself in a quiz?
    • What You Don't Know about This Personality Test Can Hurt You
    • MBTI, If You Want Me Back, You Need to Change Too
    • Personality Tests Aren't All the Same
    • The Utility of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

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  • BONUS: Breaking Down The Latest Anti-Trans Victory Lap
    2024/07/01

    We went a little easy on the Cass Report in our last main feed episode, so we're back to [Mortal Kombat voice] FINISH HIM!!!

    This was supposed to be a Patreon bonus episode but we'd rather you support the lovely trans people who helped us with the research and fact-checking of this episode!

    Julia Serano: https://www.patreon.com/juliaserano
    Parker Molloy: https://www.readtpa.com/
    Katelyn Burns: https://www.patreon.com/katelynburns
    Evan Urquhart: https://www.assignedmedia.org/support
    Erin Reed: https://www.erininthemorning.com/

    Or organizations that work with trans youth in the UK:
    Gendered Intelligence: https://genderedintelligence.co.uk/
    Mermaids: https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/
    Stonewall: https://www.stonewall.org.uk/

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  • "Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria" Part 2: Panic! At The Endocrinologist.
    2024/06/18

    Thanks to Jules Gill-Peterson (jgillpeterson.com) and Julia Serano (patreon.com/juliaserano) for help researching this episode and Evan Urquhart, Parker Molloy and Katelyn Burns for fact-checking!

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    • Origins of "Social Contagion" and "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria"
    • The "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria" Controversy at AACAP's Annual Meeting
    • Methodological Critique Of The Cass Review
    • Methodological Critique of Littman (2018)
    • Parent reports of adolescents and young adults perceived to show signs of a rapid onset of gender dysphoria
    • A critical commentary on ‘rapid-onset gender dysphoria’.
    • Foundations Of The Contemporary Anti-LGBTQ+ Pseudoscience Network
    • Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1,655 Possible Cases
    • Opinion: England's Anti-Trans Cass Review Is Politics Disguised As Science
    • Tavistock v Bell
    • Actually Nothing: The Non-Starter Non-Story of the WPATH Files
    • As anti-trans legislation proliferates in 2024, community fears erasure from public view
    • States Passed a Record Number of Transgender Laws. Here’s What They Say.

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  • "Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria" Part 1: The Cooties Theory of Transgender Identity
    2024/05/09

    Thanks to Jules Gill-Peterson (jgillpeterson.com) and Julia Serano (patreon.com/juliaserano) for help researching this episode and Evan Urquhart and Parker Molloy for fact-checking!

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    • Origins of "Social Contagion" and "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria"
    • What does the scholarly research say about the effect of gender transition on transgender well-being?
    • Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care
    • Fresh trans myths of 2017: “rapid onset gender dysphoria”
    • Rapid Onset of Gender Dysphoria in Adolescents and Young Adults: a Descriptive Study
    • The Detransitioners: They Were Transgender, Until They Weren't
    • How the idea of a “transgender contagion” went viral—and caused untold harm
    • Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care
    • 'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria' Is Biased Junk Science
    • A careful step into a field of landmines
    • Detransition, Desistance, and Disinformation: A Guide for Understanding Transgender Children Debates
    • Recognizing and responding to misleading trans health research

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  • Jamie Oliver
    2024/04/04

    In the 2000s, Jamie Oliver made a big splash with his work reforming kids’ meals in the UK and US. Was his work wicked slammin’, or just proper rustic?

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    • BBC Profile - Jamie Oliver
    • Jamie Oliver Puts America's Diet on a Diet
    • All The Times Jamie Oliver Made Everyone Angry
    • Unpacking School Lunch: Understanding the Hidden Politics of School Food
    • A brief history of school meals in the UK
    • Turkey Twizzlers: A Complete History
    • Marcus Rashford Is Fighting the Government on Free School Meals. He’s Also Fighting Jamie Oliver’s Legacy
    • Has Jamie Bitten off More Than He Can Chew?
    • Jamie Oliver, you haven’t tasted real poverty
    • Jamie Oliver’s campaign against childhood obesity has classist undertones
    • Jamie’s jerk rice is a recipe for disaster

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  • COVID Conspiracies
    2024/03/07

    What was missing from America's pandemic response? According to the internet, a sunshine vitamin, a malaria treatment and a whole lot of horse paste.

    Thanks to Health Nerd (Substack) for helping us fact-check this episode! And thanks to Abby Mahler (Twitter, Tiktok) for help with the research on hydroxychloroquine!

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    • How Musk Sold MAGA on HCQ
    • Prominent Anti-Vaxxer’s Snake Oil Store Has a Propaganda Outlet
    • Nine COVID-19 Myths That Just Won’t Go Away
    • Disinformation and coronavirus
    • COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Discussion on Twitter
    • Pain in the Nation
    • Are patients with hypertension and diabetes mellitus at increased risk for COVID-19 infection?
    • Conspiracy theories as barriers to controlling the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S.
    • Vaccines vs. vitamins: COVID misinformation roils the worlds of wellness and nutrition
    • A Decisive Verdict on Vitamin D Supplementation
    • Why were Twitter Users Obsessed with Vitamin D during the first year of the pandemic?
    • Vitamin D, the Sunshine Supplement, Has Shadowy Money Behind It
    • The Truth about Vitamin D and COVID-19
    • The Strange and Twisted Tale of Hydroxychloroquine
    • Is Ivermectin for Covid-19 Based on Fraudulent Research?

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  • Ozempic
    2023/10/10

    Ozempic is being hailed as “the end of the Obesity Epidemic.” This week, Mike and Aubrey dig through the sensational claims. But will they make it past the caveats?

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    • How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic
    • The Discovery and Development of Liraglutide and Semaglutide
    • Ozempic and Wegovy maker courts prominent Black leaders to get Medicare's favor
    • Insurers clamping down on doctors who prescribe Ozempic for weight loss
    • Ozempic prescriptions can be easy to get online. Its popularity for weight loss is hurting those who need it most
    • Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists in patients with type 2 diabetes: real-world evidence from a Mediterranean area
    • Semaglutide in Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction and Obesity
    • Real-world weight change, adherence, and discontinuation among patients with type 2 diabetes initiating glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists in the UK
    • Safety of Semaglutide
    • Semaglutide for the treatment of overweight and obesity: A review
    • Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adolescents with Obesity
    • Semaglutide 2.4 mg for the Treatment of Obesity: Key Elements of the STEP Trials 1 to 5
    • Association of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist Use With Risk of Gallbladder and Biliary Diseases
    • Real-World Adherence and Discontinuation of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists Therapy in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients in the United States
    • Medications and conditions associated with weight loss in patients prescribed semaglutide based on real-world data

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    58 分