And one of those myths actually is myth number two is what you call the social construct myth. You construct your book as a series of myths that you then bring scientific evidence forward to debunk. It’s so great to see you again.Ībsolutely. I hope you enjoy this very first High Noon conversation with Dr. Debra Soh Podcast, and she has published as a columnist everywhere from The Wall Street Journal to Playboy which is a unique and fantastic resume. She provides scientific rigor to the gut instincts so many of us have that we’re being taught to ignore, that men and women are actually different, and that those differences matter. Soh is a critical voice in the increasingly fraught debates over biological sex, something I never thought, frankly, that we would have to debate. Unfortunately, we live in a time when free speech seems increasingly confined to the letter of the law and the Constitution to the courtroom, rather than being a living breathing part of our lives and our political discourse.

We also talked a lot about what I think is going to be an ongoing theme of this podcast, the courage that it takes to stand up for the truth regardless of some very real social and professional consequences. And unfortunately, she seems to think that it has, but she gave us some really great practical tips on being able to tell whether a scientific study has been compromised by ideology which I think will be really useful for us all as we all read those headlines that say, “Study says …” To be able to tell whether or not the authors of that study were subject to ideology or bias, or whether the study wasn’t done according to the scientific method. I also asked her as a scientist who left the academy because she felt she couldn’t do the type of research that she wanted to do whether science even the hard sciences in universities have been corrupted by ideology or bias. She covers that subject and many others in her book, The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society. Soh is a neuroscientist specializing in gender, sex and sexual orientation. I’m your host, Inez Stepman and I’m beyond pleased to kick off the inaugural episode of this podcast with this discussion with Dr.

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