Posted on 10/23/2024 5:00:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A prominent doctor and trans rights advocate admitted she deliberately withheld publication of a $10 million taxpayer-funded study on the effect of puberty blockers on American children — after finding no evidence that they improve patients’ mental health. Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy told the New York Times that she believes the study would be “weaponized” by critics of transgender care for kids, and that the research could one day be used in court to argue “we shouldn’t use blockers.” Critics – including one of Olson-Kennedy’s fellow researchers on the study
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For the National Institutes of Health-funded study, researchers chose 95 kids — who had an average age of 11 — and gave them puberty blocking drugs starting in 2015. The treatments are meant to delay the onset of bodily changes like the development of breasts or the deepening of the voice. After following up with the youths for two years, the treatments did not improve the state of their mental health, which Olson-Kennedy chalked up to the kids being “in really good shape” both when they started and concluded the two-year treatment. However, the Times points out her rosy assessment contradicts earlier data recorded by the researchers which found around one-quarter of study participants “were depressed or suicidal” before receiving treatment.
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Olson-Kennedy, the outlet points out, is one of the country’s leading advocates for providing gender-affirming care to adolescents, and regularly provides expert testimony in legal challenges to state bans on such procedures, which have taken root in more than 20 states. She then flat-out admitted she was afraid the lack of mental health improvements borne out by the study could one day be used in court to argue “we shouldn’t use blockers.”
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Translation: never let the truth get in the way of the agenda.
The left is pro-science and the right is anti-science. So science is whatever they say it is.
Now WHO is playing politics with our children now?
Or the invitations to the cool people’s parties
She should have to refund the $10 million in taxpayer money. She took the money but failed to produce the information she was contracted to produce.
She produced information, she just didn’t release it. Isn’t that part of the terms of the money?
Well, it’s right to be suspicious, but grant-funded researchers are never assured of publication.
Researchers SUBMIT material for publication to journals, which either accept it or don’t.
I suspect what happened here is that the researcher did not submit or attempt to publish the findings.
If it’s a taxpayer funded study she doesn’t have the legal right to withhold the study in which she was only one of the researchers - she is, in effect, censoring her fellow researchers.
It has been “Fauci’d”
They used to try to straighten out hormone imbalances because they caused severe mental issues - these days they cause the imbalances and then claim there is no downside...
Revoke her medical license and jail her.
The Puberty Blockers for Children Case before the Supreme Court
You need to watch this . . .
Begin at 38:58 (I recommend 75% Playback speed)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkpImyxv3Bw
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