William M. Briggs

This paper is going around: "A Pediatrician’s Manifesto for the Modernization of Gender Medicine", by Erica Li. About the "queering" of medicine. The author is against it, as am I,…

Thanatos Savehn reminded be of this Atlantic piece from a decade ago: "The Truth About Little Women Carrying Big Wounded Men in Combat", by somebody using the name Elspeth Reeve.…

Time to return to the beginning. End formal science papers and let scientists talk freely amongst themselves. Here's why. Heard about the formal peer-reviewed paper "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent…

I did a poor job explaining that The Only Way To Avoid Illegal Discrimination Is To Illegally Discriminate. I said: I won’t show the math, but it should be easy…

We are going to explore, in a series of posts, the Mind of The Academic. There is much to say on this depressing-yet-amusing topic, which by itself is worthy of…