“Jumping the shark” with the New England Journal of Medicine (from Livestream #59)

Should we remove sex from birth certificates?

Clip taken from DarkHorse Podcast Livestream #59 (originally streamed live on December 19, 2020):
https://youtu.be/NSTFmtCAJFc

Q&A:
https://youtu.be/qiaGWeoV4MA

References:
https://twitter.com/NEJM/status/1339616345353154560
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2025974

Ferretti et al. 2018. Sex differences in Alzheimer disease — the gateway to precision medicine. Nature Reviews Neurology 14: 457–469.

Vetvik, K.G. and MacGregor, E.A., 2017. Sex differences in the epidemiology, clinical features, and pathophysiology of migraine. The Lancet Neurology, 16(1): 76-87.

Lynch, W.J., Roth, M.E. and Carroll, M.E., 2002. Biological basis of sex differences in drug abuse: preclinical and clinical studies. Psychopharmacology, 164(2): 121-137.

Szewczyk-Krolikowski, K., Tomlinson, P., Nithi, K., Wade-Martins, R., Talbot, K., Ben-Shlomo, Y. and Hu, M.T., 2014. The influence of age and gender on motor and non-motor features of early Parkinson's disease: initial findings from the Oxford Parkinson Disease Center (OPDC) discovery cohort. Parkinsonism & related disorders, 20(1): 99-105.

See, e.g.: Allen, J.S., Damasio, H., Grabowski, T.J., Bruss, J. and Zhang, W., 2003. Sexual dimorphism and asymmetries in the gray–white composition of the human cerebrum. Neuroimage, 18(4): 880-894.

Ingalhalikar, M., Smith, A., Parker, D., Satterthwaite, T.D., Elliott, M.A., Ruparel, K., Hakonarson, H., Gur, R.E., Gur, R.C. and Verma, R., 2014. Sex differences in the structural connectome of the human brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(2): 823-828.

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In this 59th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), discuss the state of the world though an evolutionary lens. Find more from us on Bret’s website (https://bretweinstein.net) or Heather’s website (http://heatherheying.com).

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