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Lilliana Mason

Lilliana Mason is a professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University's SNF Agora Institute. She studies partisan identity, polarization and political violence and is the author of Uncivil Agreement.

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DI has documented statements by Lilliana Mason on Health Care, Political Violence, and Scientific Research, among other topics. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.

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Statements by Lilliana Mason

Lilliana Mason

Role at the time: Professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University

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Statement summary

Mason says she would recommend rejecting the paper in peer review. She questions whether its scale measures authoritarianism rather than alignment with the Democratic Party.

“If I were to be a peer reviewer for this paper, I would recommend that it be rejected. I just don't believe that it's written in good faith and the measures are not well validated,”
Open source (opens in a new tab)What's behind HHS claims that gender-affirming care 'may' radicalize - NPRInterviews with Lilliana Mason and Adrian Shanker; updated October 2
Why we used this label

Relative to the HHS report's claim linking gender-affirmation support with authoritarianism and violence, the speaker criticizes its methods, framing or use.

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

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