https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/opinion/testosterone-caster-semenya.html#click=https://t.co/EqwJ5uopWS

I'm pretty tired of the 'literally everything is white supremacy' meme, now 4chan ought to start taking actual racist symbols and giving them positive meanings, like the burning cross of understanding.

this paragraph, wow

But that’s simply not true. The problem with trying to flatten athleticism into a single dimension is illustrated especially well by a 2004 study published in The Journal of Sports Sciences. The study analyzed testosterone and different types of strength among men who were elite amateur weight-lifters and cyclists or physically fit non-athletes. Weightlifters had higher testosterone than cyclists and showed more explosive strength. But the cyclists, who had lower testosterone than both other groups, scored much higher than the others on “maximal workload,” an endurance type of strength. Across the three groups, there was no relationship between testosterone and explosive strength, and a negative relationship between testosterone and maximal workload. Though small, that study isn’t an outlier: Similar complex patterns of mixed, positive and negative relationships with testosterone are found throughout the literature, involving a wide range of sports.

wtf is an "elite AMATEUR" weight-lifter??

Amateur just means you aren’t getting paid for it

You can still be elite and not professional

^Technically, anyone that's in the olypmics is supposed to be an amateur, afaik

its rather oxymoronic

that's why they all do stuff like getting deals with big companies, because it's not technically them getting paid to do the sport that they're good at

That study is retarded though. A better way to determine if testosterone affects athletic performance would be to give some athlete exogenous test and other none and see who ends up better. Spoiler alert: we know the test athletes do much better. That’s why it’s against the rules

^

honestly, the article may not have even gotten what the study found correct

I've watched enough of Aydin Paladin's videos at this point to assume that anything a journalist proclaims about a study is probably not actually what the study found

pretty much. this flies in the face of any anabolic steroid research

If the study found testosterone levels don’t affect muscular strength then either the study was wrong or it’s interpretation is wrong

That’s like claiming water doesn’t actually freeze below 32 degrees

not to be contrarian, but with enough salt, it doesn't

(I get your point, though)

heres another garbage paragraph

A growing number of female athletes with lower testosterone levels have argued that allowing athletes like Semenya to compete is unfair. Addressing that feeling is important. But as the sociologist Madeleine Pape, who once raced against Semenya, has argued, governing bodies like the athletics association have done this in precisely the wrong way, by validating myths and stoking athletes’ fears.

appeal to authority

https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1123727511987396609

@Agent Smith
Dome people are just sick... Like Al. S. Rep. ROGERS.

@RoadtoDawn Hopefully they can make it better.

https://twitter.com/realsaavedra/status/1124055355552563203

🤡🌎

https://www.rt.com/usa/458267-mastercard-human-rights-censorship/
https://www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/mastercard-activists-cut-off-donations-far-right
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1141391/000114139119000067/mastercard2019proxystateme.htm#s205f168ba9e74ec284aa8f511f000417
https://www.bloodmoney.org/

Good day to own Visa stock I guess

i got rid of my mastercard a few years ago because of this shit

@micamike45 visa is banhappy too lol dont forget but not as bad as mastercard though to be fair

discover and amex are the only ones you never hear of banning based on ideology i believe

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/05/02/steve-cohen-calls-attorney-general-chicken-barr-eats-kfc/3650941002/

https://globalnews.ca/video/5234438/groups-question-impact-new-clares-law-will-have-in-saskatchewan/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/02/facebook-bans-extremist-leaders-including-louis-farrakhan-alex-jones-milo-yiannopoulos-being-dangerous/

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/media-outlets-label-louis-farrakhan-a-far-right-leader

I can see it.

Clearly just a simple copy-paste error from their official Facebook memo

So are we at the point where these media douchebags are openly making the claim that the phrase "far right" means nothing except "says things that average Americans won't agree with? Because that's a pretty slippery slope if so.

Not openly, but it's pretty obvious that they're using it as a smear label with the assumption that most people won't actually bother to look into it

He is far right, aren't most muslims far right?

Belief in a select class making rules im the better interest of the lower class. Check