Clay Jones

@clayjones.bsky.social

Pediatric/newborn hospitalist. Skeptic, but fun at parties. Part-time satirist. Nobel Prize nominated, I assume. Born on the bayou, just not yesterday.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/author/clayjones/

https://www.knudsensnews.com

@clayjones.bsky.social

Yikes. I have a lot less respect for Tom Holland and Sabrina Carpenter now. I will not be watching the Fred Astaire biopic and I hope it bombs. So disrespectful. The man did not want this. His estate does not want this. Sony is forging ahead anyway using a bullshit legal workaround. Boo.

@chrisajulian.bsky.socialReposted by @clayjones.bsky.social

I reanalyzed the CDC data behind the LGB “free fall” headline. It rests on a change in bisexual identification among one grade, in one wave, of one survey. Gay or lesbian identification did not change significantly. Calling it a "free fall" is sensational and just gives bad actors talking points.

Six small line charts showing the percent of U.S. high school students choosing each sexual identity response option by grade (9th to 12th), 2015 to 2025, with 95% confidence intervals. Heterosexual falls from about 85 to 90 percent before 2021 to about 73 percent in 2021 and 2023, then rises to about 78 to 80 percent in 2025. Gay or lesbian stays between about 2 and 5 percent throughout. Bisexual rises to about 12 percent in 2021 in every grade, then among 9th graders falls to about 7 percent in 2025, its 2019 level, while other grades stay near 10 percent. “Some other way,” added in 2021, falls from about 4 percent to about 2.5 percent. “Not sure” stays near 3 to 5 percent. A dotted line marks 2021, when CDC changed the response options.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Young teenagers are less likely to identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual than a few years ago, according to a new analysis. “It really does look like a free fall,” Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology, said. “But what’s causing it is unclear.”

washingtonpost.comNumber of teens who identify themselves as gay or bisexual is in ‘free fall’Conservatives have trumpeted the data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but researchers say the reasons for the decline are unclear.
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