Jody Lanard MD

[Angela, I can't resist making this my pinned tweet for awhile! I promise I'll exchange it soon for something more substantive!]

@JamesLNuzzo I think I’m gonna go interrogate a baloney sandwich.

Interestingly, the authors decided against including a "positionality" statement in their paper. The highlighted part is their word salad explanation why:

Three women academics got to together for a year to write a paper about themselves. "The contemporary business school is increasingly portrayed as dystopian, shaped by neoliberal managerialism, metric‐driven performativity, and precarious labor. These pressures weigh heaviest on women academics, whose careers are fractured by intersecting lines of gender, race, class, and citizenship. Drawing on a year‐long collaborative autoethnography involving three women scholars situated in three distinct national systems, this article interrogates the everyday dystopias of academic life and maps the emergence of sororal counterspaces: utopian pockets of solidarity, care, and collective resistance that materializes within, against, and beyond the neoliberal academy. By weaving feminist political economy, intersectionality, and utopian studies with dialogic vignettes, we demonstrate how practicing sorority transcends entrenched institutional boundaries, rehumanizes academic subjectivities, and offers concrete mechanisms for change. We conclude with a framework for cultivating sororal counterspaces and ritualizing solidarity and a call for gender‐equitable, care‐centered business schools."

@ChaunceyGardner @jgitchell @TamarHaspel Charles, I relate. Personal example: Skip is 1 of 2 people along with writer Ben Ryan who almost penetrate my refusal to use what I see as coerced/dishonest pronouns for trans people. Like Skip, I care about kindness so much. But I can't make myself collude with false pronouns.

@jgitchell @TamarHaspel We're both struggling with the same thing. I credit Skip Murray's good advice to me, and yours, for toning down my responses to health misinfo. Being more polite. But words have power. Part of HIV/AIDS and #LGBTQ rights activists' success WAS due to aggressive language.

You can know something approaching objective truth, based on the best available evidence. But THR advocates (like me) have much to learn about how to persuade #HarmReduction deniers.

Reposting from @MeidasTouch

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8/8 How does this get through peer review at Science? Why is Science still downplaying the amplitude of the mistakes in that paper? You tell me. typefully.com/gdemaneuf/jgMg…

1/8 Nod (@nizzaneela) has updated his paper demolishing Pekar et al's claim of 'two introductions'. v3 is more accessible, same brutal conclusion: the supposed support for two spillovers is an artefact of rigged hypothesis testing. arxiv.org/html/2502.2007…

@HPluckrose @threadreaderapp unroll. Pluckrose so beautifully understands and captures the difference between tolerance (which can be granted) and respect (which must be earned).

If I was ever to be convinced of that, the thing I would most want to ban is religion. But I am not convinced of that. I think it is wrong to deny other people's freedom of belief & that it also wouldn't work. The end.

I never advocate compromise. I advocate leaving people alone to believe, speak, live as they see fit provided this does no material harm to anyone else nor denies them the same freedom. When it does, we say no. 1/

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You may have seen this study being misused online by gender critical ghouls. Here are a few things to consider: 1/10

@jgitchell @ChaunceyGardner @jkelovuori @AranenZen @CAMHnews @GFNicotine Someone sitting next to me is blushing…

@ChaunceyGardner @EIDGeek @jkelovuori @AranenZen @CAMHnews @GFNicotine Watch the whole clip, Charles. 12/10, no notes, so darn good.

@jgitchell @ChaunceyGardner @jkelovuori @AranenZen @CAMHnews @GFNicotine “But the OTHER side exaggerates; why can’t WE?” People sort of expect exaggerated warnings. But they lose trust when they learn a reassurance was exaggerated. (Peter’s video in my previous comment explains it better!)

@jgitchell @ChaunceyGardner @jkelovuori @AranenZen @CAMHnews @GFNicotine I’m delighted by this convo about “0%.” There are good risk comm reasons to avoid even SOUNDING like you’re overstating safety. And as long as public health keeps blah blah blahing about “the developing adolescent brain,” we’ll lose credibility with “0%. vimeo.com/18373982

@ej_spode @BrandonWarmke I wish that were true, but I’m pretty sure self-deception is stronger. Norman Zinberg, one of my professors during my psych residency, always said, “Never underestimate the capacity for self-deception.”

@BrandonWarmke I think they will know exactly what they were thinking, which is that they preferred to be careerists rather than philosophers.

Sometimes I wonder if those philosophers who got a reputation in the 90s for being careful metaphysicians and then jumped on professional fads and started writing papers like "Gender as a Self-Conferred Identity" will one day look back and ask what they were thinking.

@EbonyJHilton_MD You really don't know that legally-sold e-cigs are safer than cigarettes? And you think young vapers are more at risk than elderly smokers? Can you define "harm reduction?" Data please.

Vaping was sold to us as the “safer” alternative. But the data tells a different story. Lung damage. Heart disease. Nicotine addiction. And our young people are the most at risk. Get the facts on Second Opinion w/ Dr. Ebony Jade Hilton on the #BlackStarNetwork Thursdays, 11AM EST

Just as most Muslims are not Islamists, most Christians are not Christianists. But Trump's and Hegseth's Christianity is looking more and more like a funhouse mirror version of Islamism. Sad. thehill.com/policy/defense…

@jgitchell @brindaadhikari @WSITYpod @aaronecarroll @unbiasedscipod @CaulfieldTim @jonathanstea @bethlinas In a highly distrustful atmosphere, earning JUSTIFIED trust in experts should start with: • acknowledgment of experts' portion of the blame for the distrust, • followed by a fervent apology. And THEN work on "truth, context, and care." psandman.com/media/Corona79…

Big #WSITY Energy! @brindaadhikari @WSITYpod Folks who toil around nicotine will see important and familiar themes. Let's get less wrong, together. Oh, and #FridayFollow #FF for @aaronecarroll ! @EIDGeek @unbiasedscipod @CaulfieldTim @jonathanstea @bethlinas

@aaronecarroll In a highly distrustful atmosphere, earning JUSTIFIED trust in experts should start with: • acknowledgment of experts' portion of the blame for the distrust, • followed by a fervent apology. And THEN work on "truth, context, and care." psandman.com/media/Corona79…

7/ Science that earns trust starts with truth, context, and care.

1/ I’ve been thinking a lot about how we communicate health data and research shapes public trust & the ways oversimplification is leading to growing mistrust in science. A thread 👇️

@JenniferSey Rewriting Strangio's post: "If you are angry or think it's 'unfair' for a trans-identifying boy to beat an actual girl...then fundamentally you don't think trans-identifying boys are 'real' girls. It's that simple." It IS that simple: trans-identifying boys are NOT real girls.

I accept your terms.

@RushmoreExt23 Would love to have a discussion with you about this. It isn’t instantly obvious to me why you object to “addict.” Phone call next week some time?

In the narrow lexicon of anti-tobacco activism, there is no word I loathe more than "addict". A myriad of equally satisfying substitutes are available. Thank you. That is all.

@RushmoreExt23 @X Although it's not actually the government doing this, it's still repulsive repression. Does X do this to any prominent anti-THR sources, or only prominent THR sources? My country: I still wear my flag pin, but there are distressing days when I feel like turning it upside down.

You have got to be kidding me? @X

@Jerrell2kb @Nick_Decap Yes, seal your paraLIPSis!

@Nick_Decap I'm not going to say anything about her ears.

🧵Alot of people are having a good laugh right now at the antics at the convention of Canada's New Democratic Party (the NDP). I particular, this woman, who has chaired the convention. Her name is Adrienne Smith, and while the clips may be funny, there is nothing funny about her agenda or the influence she wields. 1/9

Regardless of the actual truth, efforts to suppress & ridicule lab-leak discussions greatly contributed to a justified sense that the public health establishment (“The Guild”) is untrustworthy, & doesn’t trust the public. Some foreshadowing: Fouchier 2012 psandman.com/articles/Fouch…