These are just the latest mutations of Lysenkoism for the left.
Finally! Something on which we can all agree.
Chatgpt: Try it. You’ll like it
Summary:
“results, which reportedly showed no improvement in mental health outcomes for participants, were withheld to avoid fueling political attacks against gender-affirming care.”
The suppression of results in studies related to gender-affirming care has drawn significant attention recently. Notably, Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy and her research team, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have been criticized for not publishing findings from a study initiated in 2015. This study explored the mental health effects of puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender youth. Critics allege that the results, which reportedly showed no improvement in mental health outcomes for participants, were withheld to avoid fueling political attacks against gender-affirming care.
Stopped reading immediately. I don’t care about the intent.
“Consensus” & “science” are mutually exclusive.
Arguing from a point of insanity is itself insane.
The author needs to seriously evaluate their debate/writing skills & approach to the problem to be taken seriously.
It was this document
https://unfccc.int/resource/docs/1989/un/eng/a44484.pdf
originating from the UN’s General Assembly of September 1989 which officially popularized the term by erroneously correlating “consensus” with the science of climate and the climate change zealots have abused it to the point of forcing stupid upon the populace.
IT NEEDS TO STOP.
As to six feet and masking, in 2019 I made two investigations that immediately convinced me that the proffered contentions were bogus.
As to social distancing, I looked up evidence related to the common cold, knowing that this family of relatively inconsequential respiratory viruses had been studied for so long that the data were unlikely to be politicized. The data said viable viral particles could infect at a distance of 30 feet, in quiescent air (never mind a breeze)! So much for that one.
To masking, I went to clean room engineers, knowing that the industry absolutely depends upon accurate understanding of the behavior of tiny particles for which they declared an N-95 useless. That was backed up by a study done at Camp Pendleton, Marines being the type of people among whom proper use of masks could be as well assured as any population. The N-95 was useless.
By somewhere in February or March 2020 I had all the data I needed on masks and social distancing. As to the risks of the virus itself and how infectious it is, the data from the Diamond Princess was sufficient. As to whether it was treatable, Didier Raoult's lab data was good enough for me as he was counting viral particles with a SEM.
My point in recounting this is that picking out the critical data to test a hypothetical media-driven buzz is pretty simple: Look for parallel conditions and tests for whch they have no control for purposes of tweaking in parallel conditions where there is no apparent agenda.
The science fiction of masking and distancing was not iron-fistedly implemented and enforced to control the spread of the Fauci Flu virus, it was to control the activities and Liberty of the population.