Showing posts with label media interference in science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label media interference in science. Show all posts

Saturday, August 3, 2024

Sex, Gender, and Sports

 

Photo by Samuel Regan-Asante on Unsplash

The current English vocabulary fails to capture the actual inherent differences in sex and gender in the human population. For too long, society has used a binary to describe a spectrum, and it's causing problems.

In Science, we’re still trying to untangle the traditional conflation of sex and gender. This is in addition to recognizing the hormone-related differences in disease, as well as the injustices of not recognizing the full scope of intersex manifestation.

Read more about Gender vs. Sex in Biology and how genitals aren't used to play sports.

Saturday, January 31, 2009

The obesity virus: Mostly hype

Recent research published regarding adenovirus-induced weight gain has the media talking about an "obesity virus". This hype overlooks the important issues surrounding obesity and ignores the actual findings of the study. Read more in my article on Suite101.