<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 16, 2025, 7:30 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It needs urgent study. Given the current political environment is that<br>
possible? The oil companies make a lot of money off plastics so they<br>
would oppose research. Maybe it could be sold as a long-term way to<br>
reduce the number of trans people caused by chemicals. Any other<br>
ideas?<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I think you are ambivalent about "trans" so I read this as purely a way to game the zeitgeist into allocating funds for research that should be done regardless of agenda</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The way words work, and the attention spans growing ever shorter... makes me wince at the snip "reduce the number of trans people" - so if you do mention this again outside this group, be mindful how people will remember what they think you said instead of what you meant. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">(Or not, perhaps this is my problem more than others)</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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