The internet gets weird investigating the "disappearance" of America's gay best friend.

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• Richard Simmons Show
• Richard Simmons, the Original Queer Eye
• The Grand Duke of Diet and the Clown Prince of Fitness
• The Sultan of Svelte
• The Deregulation Of Commercial Television
• Simmons Says Slapping Mesa Man Was Meant as Playful
• Richard Simmons’ Life Was a ‘Never-Ending Work in Progress’
• Richard Simmons ordered to pay $130,000 after transgender lawsuit
• Richard Simmons' family asks Pauly Shore to please stop
• Pauly Shore's Richard Simmons biopic might actually be dead
• Richard Simmons' Death Was an 'Accident'
• Richard Simmons' Housekeeper of 35 Years Breaks Her Silence
• How eating disorders can damage the heart

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Part 1: The Early Years

Before building his fitness empire, America’s most bedazzled fitness guru was a guy named Milton from New Orleans.

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• Still Hungry...After All These Years by Richard Simmons
• "Hair-Do"
• Anatomy Asylum Commercial
• Richard Simmons: New Orleans's hometown hero
• A Speedy History of America’s Addiction to Amphetamine

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How a mother, a daughter and a crackpot Swiss psychologist gave us the world's most popular Buzzfeed quiz.

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• The Personality Brokers by Merve Emre
• Myers Briggs Type Preferences
• What Personality Tests Really Deliver
• The $2 Billion Question of Who You Are at Work
• Cautionary Comments Regarding the MBTI
• The Barnum Effect in Personality Assessment
• The Mysterious Popularity Of The Meaningless Myers-Briggs
• Why the Myers-Briggs personality test is totally meaningless
• Can you truly know yourself in a quiz?
• What You Don't Know about This Personality Test Can Hurt You
• MBTI, If You Want Me Back, You Need to Change Too
• Personality Tests Aren't All the Same
• The Utility of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

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We went a little easy on the Cass Report in our last main feed episode, so we're back to [Mortal Kombat voice] FINISH HIM!!!

This was supposed to be a Patreon bonus episode but we'd rather you support the lovely trans people who helped us with the research and fact-checking of this episode!

Julia Serano: https://www.patreon.com/juliaserano
Parker Molloy: https://www.readtpa.com/
Katelyn Burns: https://www.patreon.com/katelynburns
Evan Urquhart: https://www.assignedmedia.org/support
Erin Reed: https://www.erininthemorning.com/

Or organizations that work with trans youth in the UK:
Gendered Intelligence: https://genderedintelligence.co.uk/
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Stonewall: https://www.stonewall.org.uk/

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Thanks to Jules Gill-Peterson (jgillpeterson.com) and Julia Serano (patreon.com/juliaserano) for help researching this episode and Evan Urquhart, Parker Molloy and Katelyn Burns for fact-checking!

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• Origins of "Social Contagion" and "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria"
• The "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria" Controversy at AACAP's Annual Meeting
• Methodological Critique Of The Cass Review
• Methodological Critique of Littman (2018)
• Parent reports of adolescents and young adults perceived to show signs of a rapid onset of gender dysphoria
• A critical commentary on ‘rapid-onset gender dysphoria’.
• Foundations Of The Contemporary Anti-LGBTQ+ Pseudoscience Network
• Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1,655 Possible Cases
• Opinion: England's Anti-Trans Cass Review Is Politics Disguised As Science
• Tavistock v Bell
• Actually Nothing: The Non-Starter Non-Story of the WPATH Files
• As anti-trans legislation proliferates in 2024, community fears erasure from public view
• States Passed a Record Number of Transgender Laws. Here’s What They Say.

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Thanks to Jules Gill-Peterson (jgillpeterson.com) and Julia Serano (patreon.com/juliaserano) for help researching this episode and Evan Urquhart and Parker Molloy for fact-checking!

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• Origins of "Social Contagion" and "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria"
• What does the scholarly research say about the effect of gender transition on transgender well-being?
• Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care
• Fresh trans myths of 2017: “rapid onset gender dysphoria”
• Rapid Onset of Gender Dysphoria in Adolescents and Young Adults: a Descriptive Study
• The Detransitioners: They Were Transgender, Until They Weren't
• How the idea of a “transgender contagion” went viral—and caused untold harm
• Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care
• 'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria' Is Biased Junk Science
• A careful step into a field of landmines
• Detransition, Desistance, and Disinformation: A Guide for Understanding Transgender Children Debates
• Recognizing and responding to misleading trans health research

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In the 2000s, Jamie Oliver made a big splash with his work reforming kids’ meals in the UK and US. Was his work wicked slammin’, or just proper rustic?

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• BBC Profile - Jamie Oliver
• Jamie Oliver Puts America's Diet on a Diet
• All The Times Jamie Oliver Made Everyone Angry
• Unpacking School Lunch: Understanding the Hidden Politics of School Food
• A brief history of school meals in the UK
• Turkey Twizzlers: A Complete History
• Marcus Rashford Is Fighting the Government on Free School Meals. He’s Also Fighting Jamie Oliver’s Legacy
• Has Jamie Bitten off More Than He Can Chew?
• Jamie Oliver, you haven’t tasted real poverty
• Jamie Oliver’s campaign against childhood obesity has classist undertones
• Jamie’s jerk rice is a recipe for disaster

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What was missing from America's pandemic response? According to the internet, a sunshine vitamin, a malaria treatment and a whole lot of horse paste.

Thanks to Health Nerd (Substack) for helping us fact-check this episode! And thanks to Abby Mahler (Twitter, Tiktok) for help with the research on hydroxychloroquine!

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• How Musk Sold MAGA on HCQ
• Prominent Anti-Vaxxer’s Snake Oil Store Has a Propaganda Outlet
• Nine COVID-19 Myths That Just Won’t Go Away
• Disinformation and coronavirus
• COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Discussion on Twitter
• Pain in the Nation
• Are patients with hypertension and diabetes mellitus at increased risk for COVID-19 infection?
• Conspiracy theories as barriers to controlling the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S.
• Vaccines vs. vitamins: COVID misinformation roils the worlds of wellness and nutrition
• A Decisive Verdict on Vitamin D Supplementation
• Why were Twitter Users Obsessed with Vitamin D during the first year of the pandemic?
• Vitamin D, the Sunshine Supplement, Has Shadowy Money Behind It
• The Truth about Vitamin D and COVID-19
• The Strange and Twisted Tale of Hydroxychloroquine
• Is Ivermectin for Covid-19 Based on Fraudulent Research?

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