Amy Alkon
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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Just sort of observational studies. They're not science. And so we have a crisis right there. It's not just the reproducibility crisis. It is the crisis in the actual training in the scientific methodology that we've just completely let go of for some reason. Exactly. Before we go further... I want to address the heterogeneity you said in terms of the testosterone replacement therapy.
That is exactly it.
Okay, well, then maybe I did that in my head because that is exactly the issue with testosterone is that women are fantastically different in how they respond, particularly to hormones like testosterone. Susan, your story again with testosterone.
They gave her antidepressants and hormone replacement therapies.
You must be in a mood, Susan, right now, because that wasn't what I was, what I was going for was how it affected your vitality and your mood. I'm getting there. I'm getting there.
What you said to me at the time was, I feel like a part of me had died and was brought back to life when I was a younger woman. And I thought, oh, that's quite vivid. That's very vivid. But by the same token, Amy, to your point, I know plenty of women who I referred for replacement therapies of various type who respond negatively to testosterone. They lose their hair. They get aggressive.
They get irritable.
But Susan, again, it's a heterogeneous spectrum. It's going to be hard to sort that all out.
Yeah, it's individual. The end of one here. End of one. We get it.
Yeah, if you're picking up a hammer and using the claw and on your friends, I worry about that. But you're absolutely correct. That irritability, that sort of boiling, but it's irritability and misery. There's misery associated with this. And we do a woeful job. This book, your book sounds like on point. It's about time somebody wrote this book.
Now, I want to switch a little bit gears and talk about evolutionary psychology, because I know you have a background in that, right?
Okay. So I was trained as a biologist. Yeah. And I was trained as a biologist. And as a biologist, I had deep appreciation for evolutionary psychology. Because in biology, when you're really trained in biology, every question is answered by addressing... Every mechanism is addressed by asking oneself, what is the evolutionary advantage of this protein or this mechanism?
What were the evolutionary forces that caused it to evolve? Of course the brain is under the same influences. Of course. It could not be otherwise. It could not be otherwise. I can't underline that enough. And so guys like, what's the guy up in Washington? David, I always want to call him Hume. You know what I'm talking about? A famous evolutionary psychologist up there.
Somebody on the stream is going to give me that name. David, anyway, not important. Last time I talked to him, it was a few years ago. And at the time, evolutionary psychology was under an attack. And it now looks like that attack was this sort of neo-Marxist society causes everything kind of world where you weren't allowed to talk about biology.
How do you make sense of all that now that we've sort of, I feel like we're coming out on the other side a little bit and you can start to talk about biology again.
We know what it means. It's good.
What's that, Susan? I can't hear you. You're speaking, but not with a mic on Susan, Susan, are you talking to us? Okay. It sounds like you're talking to us. Um, yeah, I can't find the name of it. Sorry, but I can't find that you're, you're, you're speaking louder enough that we hear you. So I don't know. Um, Oh, we lost the X feed, I see.
So David Buss, that's the guy I was trying to think of at the University of Washington.
He's fantastic.
He's fantastic.
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