I deleted a tweet where I suggested the sudden rise (+1500%) in adolescent females presenting w/ gender dysphoria may be caused by "social contagion" dynamics hypothesized in Littman's paper on ROGD. Some purposefully misrepresented it as me comparing trans people to viruses.
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Also FYI, here is my original tweet and an example of people attempting to start a campaign to prevent me from getting a job in my field.pic.twitter.com/dr9Jf5psia
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It is quite revealing that activists who are generally obsessed with asserting the ubiquity of socialization as an explanation for practically every human behavior decide to draw a sharp line here. I wonder why? This is not an Approved Explanationᵀᴹ!
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But Social Contagion is a useful concept.
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I agree! But not when presented out of context and combined with poisoning the well.
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Peer contagion,which I'd never heard before, also seems interesting and relevant to what seems to be happening in the UK to academics.
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The word "contagion" is often used in the economic sphere.
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IMO it’s more broad. People want to know a diagnosis immediately, to have a cure. We see this in the rise of CAM/pseudoscience participation. Now normal feelings of awkwardness in adolescence is deemed a disorder rather than a part of child development. People want a cause.
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"Social contagion" is not a dehumanising term. "Cockroach", "vermin", "cancer" and "swarm" - when directed at humans - are dehumanising terms:pic.twitter.com/FNEwfcVTqK
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If I had a penny for every time some evil-psych or meme-theory snake oil twerp claimed that they didn't say what they actually said... Pretending that ordinary words have special meanings despite being obviously intended precisely according to their definitions is irritating.
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