Wonder why it doesn't really feel all that supportive? #gaslighter #gentle #learning #narcissism #abuse #trauma #minimizing #dismissing #matching #advice #therapy

http://invisiblymisdiagnosed.com/2025/09/09/toxicity-toolkit-points-to-ponder-9-gentle-gaslighter/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

"Official estimates still put the number of antibody-positive people who would develop AIDS at between 5 and 10 percent, although it was still not possible to predict which group that might be. Because the test had little predictive value, therefore, the newest axiom of AIDSpeak became 'The test doesn't mean anything.'"

-- excerpt from "And The Band Played On", The Butcher's Bill, January 10th, 1985

#publichealth #historyofscience #screeningsurveillance #minimizing

PSA for all #PhD peers especially those in #PublicHealth and related areas.

Similarly #credentialed #peers calling you out for #HarmfulRhetoric #minimizing #Covid to people asking for #help online who don’t know any better—that critique is not harmful rhetoric. It might have #harmed your #feelings or your #ego but it is NOT the same as the actual #harm you are causing by using your credentials to encourage ppl to harm themselves bc you think they have #anxiety and can’t check your #ableism

'Sparse Training with Lipschitz Continuous Loss Functions and a Weighted Group L0-norm Constraint', by Michael R. Metel.

http://jmlr.org/papers/v24/22-0615.html

#sparse #minimizing #lipschitz

Many #Black #Californians #report adjusting their appearance or behavior — even #minimizing questions — all to reduce the chances of #discrimination & #bias in #hospitals , #clinics & #doctors’ offices. Of the #strategies they describe taking, 32% pay special attention to how they dress; 35% modify their speech or behavior to put doctors at ease. And 41% of #Black #patients signal to providers that they are #educated , #knowledgeable & #prepared .

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/black-patients-adjust-behavior-to-reduce-chance-of-discrimination-in-health-care-settings-survey-finds

#WHO #minimizing negative impact of
bad #surveillance by
member states

😳
https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1rmGPkRYNyXKN?t=7979MQNHQdunQMqmNJmtfA&s=09

Ah the #minimizing #idiots finally found Mastodon.

Actually, more correctly, I found that the idiots found Mastodon.

Well it was bound to happen. C'est la vie. :)