Heterodorx

Cori is almost 50, and Nina is 57 going on 80. We discuss bronchiectasis [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronchiectasis], health hazards, witchcraft, hypertonic saline, nebulizers, oxygen monitors, IQ tests, lifesaving gender-denying healthcare, pulmonology, and being a delicate flower. Cori gives a speech [https://x.com/heterodorx/status/1920583202114027686], doesn’t quit his job, and asks: at what age did we become adults? Why was he kicked out of his mom’s house at age 17? How do you pronounce ‘syncytial [https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/respiratory-syncytial-virus/symptoms-causes/syc-20353098]’? Covid may have taken decades off Nina’s life, but this episode will take less than an hour off yours. Links: Cori’s speech: https://x.com/heterodorx/status/1920583202114027686 [https://x.com/heterodorx/status/1920583202114027686] Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV): https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/respiratory-syncytial-virus/symptoms-causes/syc-20353098 [https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/respiratory-syncytial-virus/symptoms-causes/syc-20353098] Nina’s illness art: https://blog.ninapaley.com/category/crohns/ [https://blog.ninapaley.com/category/crohns/] Maryn Cadell - The Pope [https://youtu.be/vT26uqAYzQE?si=iy3Yx5VfDZ0ZitCS] Get full access to Heterodorx Podcast at heterodorx.substack.com/subscribe [https://heterodorx.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

After several conversations about antidepressants, the Dorx welcome back pediatrician Dr. Julia Mason [https://www.calcagnopediatrics.com/mason], who prescribes Selective Seretonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) to young people. Do we even know what these drugs do to developing brains? How do antidepressants compare with “gender-affirming care”? Does Barlean’s Fish Oil [https://www.barleans.com/collections/fish-oils/products/seriously-delicious-omega-3-fish-oil-lemon-creme] really taste like lemon custard? We also talk about myelnation [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myelination], the distress of youth, the parasympathetic nervous system, neurotransmitters, immunosuppression [https://cannabisrefugeeesq.wordpress.com/2018/03/27/cannabis-refugee-esq/], social costs and benefits of treatments, wildly swinging trends in medicine, unintended consequences, public schools, and the over-diagnoses of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/magazine/adhd-medication-treatment-research.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20250413&instance_id=152482&nl=the-morning®i_id=58030095&segment_id=195907&user_id=a173f8835e89df3e22af711782032be9]). Medical institutions have a lot to answer for, but at least we have Nampons [https://nampons.com/] for nosebleeds. Links: Nampons: https://nampons.com/ [https://nampons.com/] SEGM: https://segm.org/about_us [https://segm.org/about_us] Feminist blogger with Crohn’s Disease: https://cannabisrefugeeesq.wordpress.com/2018/03/27/cannabis-refugee-esq/ [https://cannabisrefugeeesq.wordpress.com/2018/03/27/cannabis-refugee-esq/] Nina on Prozac: https://blog.ninapaley.com/2025/02/08/back-on-zac/ [https://blog.ninapaley.com/2025/02/08/back-on-zac/] myelination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myelination [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myelination] Barlean’s Fish Oil https://www.barleans.com/collections/fish-oils/products/seriously-delicious-omega-3-fish-oil-lemon-creme [https://www.barleans.com/collections/fish-oils/products/seriously-delicious-omega-3-fish-oil-lemon-creme] Listening to Prozac: https://www.peterdkramer.com/new-page [https://www.peterdkramer.com/new-page] The Noonday Demon: https://andrewsolomon.com/books/the-noonday-demon/ [https://andrewsolomon.com/books/the-noonday-demon/] Xeno’s Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#Dichotomy_paradox [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#Dichotomy_paradox] Julia Mason on the Chain of Trust in Medicine: Hunter in a Farmer’s World by Thom Hartmann: https://www.hunterinafarmersworld.com/ [https://www.hunterinafarmersworld.com/] NYT: Have We Been Thinking About ADHD All Wrong? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/magazine/adhd-medication-treatment-research.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20250413&instance_id=152482&nl=the-morning®i_id=58030095&segment_id=195907&user_id=a173f8835e89df3e22af711782032be9 [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/magazine/adhd-medication-treatment-research.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20250413&instance_id=152482&nl=the-morning®i_id=58030095&segment_id=195907&user_id=a173f8835e89df3e22af711782032be9] Jamie Reed also recommends Nampons: https://x.com/JamieWhistle [https://x.com/JamieWhistle] Our 2023 Julia Mason interview: https://www.heterodorx.com/podcast/episode-105-pediatric-disenchantment-with-julia-mason-md/ [https://www.heterodorx.com/podcast/episode-105-pediatric-disenchantment-with-julia-mason-md/] Get full access to Heterodorx Podcast at heterodorx.substack.com/subscribe [https://heterodorx.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Cori is a hard-working corporate employee who dutifully contributes to America’s tax base. Nina is a low-income artist with Crohn’s Disease whose medical expenses make her a net parasite, despite also paying taxes. After a surprise performance of improvised music by soda-can virtuoso Cori, we discuss tariffs, security, Medicaid, FICA, “maxing out contributions,” Incidence of Taxation, employment benefits, monetary incentives, distortions, the Tragedy of the Commons [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons], suckers, rationalizations, population collapse/explosion, and episodic disability. Is art, work? How hard is it to be poor? Can air be privatized? Like Life itself, our tax/benefits system isn’t fair, and it cannot go on forever. So a big Thank You to all American taxpayers who support unproductive, under-productive, post-productive, and ill members of society like your show-notes writer. Links: Leta Boylan testimony [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jea0CXB1_EY&ab_channel=Rep.ScottAllen] Terminator 2: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103064/ Tragedy of the Commons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons The Economist on more people claiming entitlements: https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/04/02/the-tyranny-of-tiktokkers-who-turn-up Get full access to Heterodorx Podcast at heterodorx.substack.com/subscribe [https://heterodorx.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Cori travels from statehouse to statehouse to testify against the worst excesses of gender ideology, while Nina gets sick for a month and loses her voice and relevance. Cori shares news from New Hampshire, where heterodox Democrat Jonah Wheeler is subject to a struggle session; Nina shares about watching television and playing Lexulous. Our lives couldn’t be more different, but we come back together to argue about AI art, neurodivergence, diagnosis skepticism, the attention economy, and ice cream. Our new slogan is “Bring Back Retardation!” and we’re doing our part. Links Jonah Wheeler breaks ranks with Democrats: https://x.com/Sidewalk_Steve/status/1902818393373413728 [https://x.com/Sidewalk_Steve/status/1902818393373413728] Jonah Wheeler struggle/listening session: Cones ice cream (closed): https://www.yelp.com/biz/cones-artisanal-ice-cream-new-york Winter, a trans kid: https://x.com/LGBCourage/status/1899180045870010722 Yarden Silveira: https://www.city-journal.org/article/yarden-silveira-death-transgender-surgery-complications?utm_source=virtuous&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cjdaily Ash Hall: https://www.aclutx.org/en/biographies/ash-hall Ovarit shutting down: https://ovarit.com/o/Announcements/676340/ovarit-is-closing Severance: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11280740/ Autism self-diagnosis: https://x.com/buttonslives/status/1906851869106082120 B******t Jobs by David Graeber: https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/david-graeber-b******t-jobs-a-theory-1.pdf episodic disability: https://episodicdisabilities.ca/home.php You Be Illin’ - RUN DMC: Get full access to Heterodorx Podcast at heterodorx.substack.com/subscribe [https://heterodorx.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Following up on our June 2021 episode What If We Win? [https://www.heterodorx.com/podcast/episode-21-what-if-we-win/] the Dorx ask whether we have won the gender wars yet. While discussing weak arguments, bad journalism, wrong pronouns, diversity of tactics, tolerance, metallurgy, the responsibility of power, and Cori’s “boys,” still more questions arise: Why are people who know better still referring to men as women? Who coddles the coddlers? Is a Liberal’s true authentic self an Authoritarian? How do you pronounce “Maori”? Listen to this episode for answers, and remember to STAY MARGINAL! Links: What If We Win? Heterodorx June 2021 episode: https://www.heterodorx.com/podcast/episode-21-what-if-we-win/ [https://www.heterodorx.com/podcast/episode-21-what-if-we-win/] Blocked & reported Zizians episode: https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/episode-247-the-zizians-reign-of [https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/episode-247-the-zizians-reign-of] Informed Dissent podcast on Brianna Wu: https://informeddissentpodcast.substack.com/p/episode-12-the-babies-are-in-charge [https://informeddissentpodcast.substack.com/p/episode-12-the-babies-are-in-charge] Nina’s Tweet about pronouns: https://x.com/ninapaley/status/1893348769053254076 [https://x.com/ninapaley/status/1893348769053254076] Conservative NZ church hakka disrupts Pride parade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOjP-L8acU8&ab_channel=AllBlacks [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOjP-L8acU8&ab_channel=AllBlacks] Rumspringa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumspringa [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumspringa] Get full access to Heterodorx Podcast at heterodorx.substack.com/subscribe [https://heterodorx.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]