I have come to believe that most of the "strike the right tone" centrism is pretty disingenuous and almost always about their career. They are ladder climbers obsessively concerned about "standing out."
This is really just an elitist perapective: "People are stupid. They don't really understand why they make the choices they do. They vote against their best interests etc." Actually people usually have very specific reasons for their positions when you actually talk to them.
You could have significant savings and still be living paycheck to paycheck. Lots of people have lifeline savings accounts but are unable to add to the, i.e. their expenses equal their pay.
I think it is instructive that he tries to leverage the smoking peer influence data in service of his pet theory. "It makes sense, so it must be true" is a dead giveaway for all pseudo-science.
👋 Hey Bette!
Understand you may still be frustrated Silence of the Lambs came out the same year as For the Boys so you were pretty much always gonna lose Best Actress to Jodie Foster. In poker, we'd call that a bad beat. But that's no reason to tweet out conspiracy theories.
You are saying we should both be against Hamas' actions and the occupation of Gaza. The point of Wnnant's piece is that we can't do both politically; that our saddness will get consumed by and fuel Israel's war machine. Isn't this evidence that he is right?
What she should have done is:
A. Find all the dissatisfied/detransitioners
B. Weight those opinions as more meaningfully than the 98-99% of others
C. Determined there was a high percentage of "regret" among patients.
Essentially the "Singal" approach!