Benjamin Ryan
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🔬Health & science reporter | Contributor to: @NYTimes @NBCNews @WashingtonPost @NewYorkSun | Others: @TheAtlantic @Guardian | Cancer Survivor | Columbia grad
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Personal health news: I remain cancer-free!
I had my year-2 CT-scan cancer follow-up:
It was negative. I'd never been so terrified for a CT, so I'm very relieved.
I also have thoughts about comparisons some people have made between my cancer and kids' gender medicine:
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@Freddygray31
Sorry everybody about the
#monkeypox
outbreak! I'll do better next time.🤷♂️
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This is my cousin, then 16, mourning her best friend, Cassie, who was murdered 25 years ago today, along with 14 others at Columbine High School. The anguish in her voice before they found Cassie's body haunts me.
My cousin would live a hard life.
We lost her, too, in 2020.
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I would once again like to apologize for inadvertently causing the entire global
#monkeypox
outbreak by typing too fast and leaving out a crucial consonant.
@JLimHospMD
This is misinformation about
#monkeypox
. The outbreak is occurring almost entirely among men who have sex with me. Public health experts agree that sexual contact is the principle driver of transmission and have asserted that risk to kids remains *very low*.
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@JMShumway
Imagine as if Charlotte’s Web took a hard pivot and became a bloodbath in Chapter 2.
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@gbkaras
Weren’t you in the room to begin with, making you one of the original 100 murderers? The question doesn’t clarify this.
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@charliekirk11
Mad respect for anyone who has ever suffered the indignity of working retail and has had to deal with rude and unruly customers.
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@JLimHospMD
This is misinformation about
#monkeypox
. The outbreak is occurring almost entirely among men who have sex with me. Public health experts agree that sexual contact is the principle driver of transmission and have asserted that risk to kids remains *very low*.
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The lead author of the new paper finding low gender-transition treatment regret is Dr. Katy Gast, a gender-affirming surgeon at UWHealth. She has been sued by a detransitioner accusing her of not properly obtaining informed consent before a double mastectomy at 21.
The patient…
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Today the federal government advised health insurance companies that they must cover pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) against HIV with no cost sharing. That means that people on PrEP are not required to pay any copays or deductibles for the medication, labs, or office visits.
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🔔Breaking: Biden administration announces mass
#monkeypox
vaccination plan. The US will release supplies of Jynneos vaccine (which requires 2 doses 4 weeks apart): 56,000 doses immediately; 240,000 doses in the coming weeks; 750,000 by summer's end; 500,000 in the fall. 🧵⬇️
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@carryonfolks
Doesn't her being a TikTok influencer mean she isn't actually a housewife, but a working woman?
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@thinking_manc
Welcome to a proud club, young fellow! And don’t worry, the hair should grow right back. Last day of chemo on the left, five months later on the right:
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"A federal judge ruled last night that the US Postal Service must give Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington documents about potential conflicts of interest by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy."
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@JMShumway
On a related note, Charlotte’s Web is one of the greatest books ever written and I encourage parents to read it to their kids. It teaches kids about the power of friendship, the meaning of a life that only lasts so long, and secular humanism.
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NYT Opinion columnist
@NYTDavidBrooks
on the Cass Review:
The Courage to Follow the Evidence on Transgender Care
"Hilary Cass is the kind of hero the world needs today. She has entered one of the most toxic debates in our culture: how the medical community should respond to the…
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Colorado Rep
@laurenboebert
recently expressed disappointment that she was not the number one person on the list tweeting the anti-
#LGBTQ
slur “groomer”.
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I simply cannot believe that
@WashingtonPost
ran an oped by Eric Feigl-Ding about
#monkeypox
. He is not an expert in this subject and has already developed an egregious history of fear mongering and inaccurate statements about the outbreak.
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@RobinMBernstein
I cried because my mother loved Tracy Chapman's cassette tape. We played it in the car when I was a kid and she played it in the kitchen. I’ve never stopped listening to the album. It reminds me of my mom. She died 25 years ago last week.
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@investmattallen
The rich get richer because they have the *extra cash* to invest. Matt here is presenting these choices as purely discretionary, blaming the poor for spending their money unwisely. This despite the fact that the poor by definition don't have extra money to spend on frivolities.
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Eric Feigl-Ding's constant fear mongering is deeply harmful. A new
@NEJM
#monkeypox
study of 528 global cases found just 0.6% were from household transmission; 95% were likely transmitted via sex between men. 🧵⬇️
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@AdamParkhomenko
Trump: “They’re all saying, ‘What a great deal he made.’”
Barbara Walters: [confidently, defiantly] “No they’re not.”
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@JackWilliamRtF
When I was a kid, my mom didn’t have immediate access to a machine that, upon a frenzied impulse amid a torrential rage, would allow her to publicly humiliate me in front of the entire world.
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Um, hello:
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After the Covid vaccine came out, the adjusted excess death rate in Ohio and Florida was 43% higher among Republican voters compared with Democratic voters, this study found. There was no such gap based on political party before the vaccine.
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@catturd2
That has to be fake. For one thing, he'd be violating HIPPA regulations about medical privacy were he to say this about a patient.
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I'd never seen this 2013 article before. It asks whether the notion that Matthew Shepard was murdered for being gay was, in fact, a myth. That's me on the right in the picture, on the front line of a riot in Manhattan over his death in October 1998. I believed the myth! But after…
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@fasc1nate
Okay, the South Koreans are clearly geniuses. This is the most clever idea ever.
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Alejandra Caraballo is a lawyer with a gig at the cyber law clinic at Harvard Law School. She, along with Mallory Moore, is centrally responsible for the falsehoods about the Cass Review that Dr. Hilary Cass denounced as harmful disinformation. She will not back down.
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Claims that the Cass Review discarded 101 out of 103 studies of pediatric gender-transition treatment are:
🚨FALSE🚨
Let's examine how Hilary Cass and her team *did* factor in the systematic literature reviews about puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones:
Check out the🧵⬇️
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The decisions people make with guns have ripple effects that extend throughout families and communities and across the years. The pain never ends. Cassie and my cousin, who thankfully had moved away in 1998 and wasn't at Columbine for the massacre, deserved so much better.
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NEWS: Detransitioner Chloe Cole’s medical-malpractice case against Kaiser Permanente, a California judge ruled today, cannot be compelled to go into arbitration. The case moves to the discovery phase.
@ChoooCole
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There is a claim circulating that the authors of the systematic literature reviews of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors took 103 studies, threw out all but 2 for not being high quality, and then wrote their paper.
*This is false.*
To learn more see the 🧵⬇️
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@PattyArquette
Hating Meghan Markle is a billion dollar industry. It will never stop. Too many people make a living off of it.
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Elon Musk smears Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth, by suggesting that Roth, whose PhD work at Penn focused on Grindr, supports pedophilia.
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Wash U in St Louis just announced that its “physicians will no longer prescribe puberty blockers or cross sex hormones to minors for the purpose of gender transitions.” This after Jamie Reed’s accusations that the clinic provided poor care and a resulting political firestorm. 🧵
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I asked Dr. Gast for a PDF copy of the study. She declined to provide it, saying she'd agreed with the publisher not to do so. She directed me to the web site where I'd have to pay for it.
I have never in my career had a study author refuse me a PDF.
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@kickassvargas
I thought he was the internet boyfriend. When and why did people turn on him?
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State Rep. Jonah Wheeler speaks in the New Hampshire statehouse about why he decided to join 13 other Democrats in voting to ban gender-transition surgeries for minors. The bill passed by a narrow margin due to these Dems’ support.
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Breaking: A paper in
@TheLancet
finds that not only do people with HIV who are on antiretrovirals and maintain a viral load <200 have zero risk of transmission via sex, but there is a nearly zero chance of transmitting with a viral load <1,000.
#IAS2023
#UequalsU
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Dr. Hilary Cass issues her likely last essay on the Cass Review website, in which she chastises "assertions being made on social media, and occasionally on mainstream broadcast media, which misrepresent the report and its findings, whether willfully or otherwise. Whilst some…
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A year ago today, I tweeted this typo. The next day this screenshot of it went so bananas, my therapist started the next session saying, "Well, you're famous." I even got conspiracy theorists hounding me that I'd plagiarized the typo on purpose. The truth is I had chemo brain!
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I'm now officially a
#cancer
survivor. A CT scan taken 1 month after I finished
#chemo
for
#testicularcancer
showed no more signs of tumors. I have about a 5% 5-year chance of recurrence, and my oncologist says symptoms such as neuropathy should fade. My hair is even returning!
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“Grief does not stop or go away in any sense, a year, or years after the loss,” she said. “Grief is something you will have to carry with you for the rest of your life, in spite of what certain people or our culture wants us to believe.” Lisa Marie Presley
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Jesse Singal writes scathingly of the US media's insistence that there is solid science backing the safety & efficacy of medical treatments for gender dysphoria. Other nations have concluded the scientific evidence for treating kids in particular is weak.
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A new systematic literature review, by Germans, of puberty blockers (PB) and cross-sex hormones (CSH) to treat gender dysphoria (GD) in kids concludes: "Current evidence does not clearly suggest that GD symptoms and mental health significantly improve when PB or CSH are given to…
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When did become acceptable in polite society to heap blame on your children for getting you sick?
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A
@UniofOxford
study in
@Nature
found that Covid-19 is linked to damage in parts of the brain tied to smell, as well as a cognitive-function deficit. I report in
@NBCNews
that this study is the 1st to analyze brain scans taken before and after Covid. 🧵⬇️
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Why have I tweeted a lot about Alejandra Caraballo and Erin Reed over the past 2 weeks:
1. The Cass Review came out and became a monumental global news story.
2. Caraballo and Reed, who have massive platforms, told many falsehoods about it.
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Gov Bill Lee's rejection of $8.3 million in CDC HIV funds was motivated, at least in part, by right-wing media stars Matt Walsh and Ben Shapiro stoking anti-LGBTQ sentiment in Tennessee, my investigation for
@NBCNews
finds.
@MattWalshBlog
@BenShapiro
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I just spent 30 minutes on the phone getting yelled at by an academic who insisted it is not a journalist’s place to question academics and their research. Which is my job.
Never going to be part of any movement or clique where skepticism is negatively coded.
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Called out by Hilary Cass for pushing falsehoods about the Cass Review, Alejandra Caraballo tells yet more falsehoods. She claims she tweeted the new BMJ systematic lit reviews ahead of the Cass embargo on April 9.🚨False🚨She tweeted an image from a 2020 systematic review.
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The investigative reporting of a Stanford undergraduate, Theo Baker
@tab_delete
, son of
@NewYorker
's Susan B. Glasser
@SBG1
and
@NYTimes
' Peter Baker
@PeterBakerNYT
, has led to the resignation of
@Stanford
's president, Marc Tessier-Lavigne.
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The final report of the Cass Review is out
England's National Health Service commissioned this independent review, by pediatrician Hilary Cass, of the nation's just-closed pediatric gender care clinic and the research backing pediatric gender-transition treatment.
Learn more🧵⬇️
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NHS bosses ordered to reveal fate of 9,000 young transgender Tavistock patients
Health Secretary demands full co-operation from trusts that refused to give information to Cass review
The NHS must reveal the fate of 9,000 transgender young people treated by the controversial…
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1999 was difficult for my family. My mother, who doted on my cousin and took her under her wing, had just died of brain cancer. It was so unfair that my cousin had to suffer this second uncanny blow so shortly afterward. I'll never know how her life might have been different.
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This photo was taken April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School. It would win the Pulitzer Prize. I saw it in a museum a few years ago and absolutely lost it. I hope wherever these two are today they are doing well.
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Mask mandates at a large London hospital during the first 10 months of Omicron (Dec 2021- Sept 2022) had no discernible effect on hospital-acquired Covid cases, a new study finds.
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I emailed Dr. Gast again and asked her this: "You did not grade the quality of the evidence, and yet you call this a systematic literature review. That seems to be a conflict. Can you reconcile this for me?"
She has not replied.
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@LipBrenna
What is the larger context? Where were the Proud Boys coming from and where were they headed?
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@elonmusk
@kylegrantham
Except that he’s not a reporter, he’s the digital media manager of a small county government.
Is Elon Musk a trustworthy source of the truth because he has a blue check?
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This account of how Trump does his hair, including the fact that he cuts his combover himself, from
@peterbakernyt
@sbg1
’s The Divider:
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@amykaycannon
What movie lines AREN’T burned into my brain? I’m like a walking jukebox of quotes.
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(PS, I realized that 13 people were murdered at Columbine, not 15. It's just that 15 people died, because the perpetrators died on the scene too. My apologies for the mathematical error. I didn't mean to imply that they were murder victims themselves.)
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💙Personal health news💙
I’ve spent my career covering other people’s health problems. But now I’ve been diagnosed with recurrent testicular cancer (for which I had surgery in Dec.), called a Stage IIa seminoma. I am slated to being 9 weeks of chemotherapy in mid-May.
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New study finds: Daily use of weed, mostly via smoking, was tied to a 25% increased chance of heart attack and a 42% increased chance of stroke compared with not using weed. Weekly use was tied to a 3% increased chance of heart attack and a 5% increased chance of stroke.…
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@nhannahjones
I absolutely CANNOT ABIDE people who characterize overt poverty and homelessness as an irritant to other people, instead of actually empathizing with the people experiencing such extraordinary suffering and degradation.
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They blocked me after I exposed them for pushing misinformation about the Cass Review.
I’m only more committed now to fact checking what Erin Reed
@ErinInTheMorn
and Alejandra Caraballo
@Esqueer_
publish about pediatric gender medicine.
And yes, I can still see their tweets.
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@itsmariannnna
You are conflating the sexual molestation of a 12 year old girl by a man in his late 30s with the relationship between a 21 year old woman and a 38 year old man.
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There is only one study considered to be of substantially high quality that examined whether gender-transition treatment and surgeries among adults were each associated with objective, non-self-report-based measures of mental health, in Sweden. It found no such apparent benefit.…
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@BigBird
@EricaRHill
I knew you could do it, Big Bird! Thanks for keeping all the other Muppets and people alike on Sesame Street safe.
Also, have you seen Snuffleupagus lately? Please give him my regards.
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The Cass Effect
A landmark report properly emphasises the application of science, not slogans, in establishing treatment protocols for trans-identified children, by the
@Quillette
editorial board.
"The need for an authoritative and objective assessment of medical practices in…
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Here is the email in which Dr. Katy Gast refused to provide me a PDF of her paper finding low regret rates following gender-transition treatment. This is an unheard of refusal for me as a science reporter.
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A new Mayo Clinic study of samples from the testes of natal boys taking puberty blockers for gender dysphoria found evidence of "mild-to-severe" testicular atrophy. The authors wrote: "This combined with...abnormalities from the histology data raise a potential concern regarding…
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This is how Megyn Kelly speaks about a transgender person:
This is Joe Biden’s rep (a man posing as a woman — and not convincingly) endorsing the idea of scrubbing the term “women” for “egg producers.” So jealous he can’t be female he wants to erase those of us who are. IT’S A NO.
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@nytdavidbrooks
Brooks writes this the same day NYT reports that the Fed is cautiously optimistic it will succeed in engineering a "soft landing": guiding down inflation without tanking the economy. The Personal Consumption Expenditures price index is down to 3.3% from a 7% peak in summer 2023.
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Stephen Jiminez argues convincingly that Matthew Shepard was not murdered because he was gay. Rather it was a killing related to the meth trade between Colorado and Wyoming. But there was too much to be gained by gay rights groups, so the myth took off.
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