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Real Accounts (feat. Jesse Singal)

Real Accounts (feat. Jesse Singal)

Central Air · Josh Barro, Megan McArdle, Ben Dreyfuss, and Jesse Singal

March 4, 20261h 11m

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Show Notes

On this week's show: Jesse Singal, co-host of the Blocked and Reported podcast, joins us to discuss the shift toward more cautious thinking among (some of) the U.S. medical societies about youth gender medicine. (Jesse wrote on this for The New York Times last week.) We talk about how “The Science” got so far ahead of the science on this topic, and the forces that made a change in thinking faster to come to Europe than the U.S. We also talk about the bizarre, totalitarian media environment that has surrounded these issues, and about why the side question of sports has often gotten more media attention than the issue of medical treatment.

Plus: Ben, Megan and I discuss Ben’s surprising optimism about the situation in Iran, which I do not share.

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