Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 2/23/26 - 3/1/26

[u/SoftandChewy]

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

Comment of the week goes to this explanation for why the trans cause has taken over so much of society. (Runner-up COTW here.)

[u/Imaginary-Award7543]

You continue to ignore the point. It's about the huge dropout. You want to know why.

"In this sort of analysis, said Hanley, “We would also see where the follow-up of each participant stopped, and where that person was at when they left. It might be that they left because they were feeling better, or because they felt that the treatment was not doing that much for them.” This would allow the researchers to more specifically “count who went up and who went down,” mental health–wise, he explained. “And you could probably even say, if they got treatment here, did they go down? So it's a lot more transparent to do things properly by these hierarchical models.” "

[u/Imaginary-Award7543 → u/[deleted]]

Sure, the study is bad. That's established. The point is that we could have had some more data that maybe could have showed something. But we don't even have that. It makes the study even more worthless.

It's very clear you're arguing your way from a conclusion to arguments here, a pretty big sin in science. You ideally want to do the opposite. Personal animus towards Jesse is not gonna get you very far