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Andrew Flores

Associate Professor of Government, American University; Visiting Scholar, Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law.

What DI has documented

DI has documented statements by Andrew Flores on Health Care, Political Violence, and Scientific Research. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.

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Statements by Andrew Flores

Andrew Flores

Role at the time: Associate Professor of Government, American University

Condemned

Statement summary

Andrew Flores, of American University and the Williams Institute, said the HHS report's scales had never been validated and that its authors "just made them up on their own." He described the design as "stacking the deck in favor of trying to find these correlations."

“These are not scales that have ever been validated. They just made them up on their own.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)HHS Issues False Report Linking Support For Gender Affirming Care With “Authoritarianism” And ViolenceTwo consecutive paragraphs quoting Andrew Flores, beginning "These are not scales that have ever been validated."
Why we used this label

Flores directly condemns the report's methodology as fabricated and unvalidated, a substantive rejection of its scientific credibility.

Read statementDoes the HHS report support linking gender-affirming guidance to authoritarianism and violence justification?

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