Another knife in the back
Even…wait for it…Science-based Medicine.
Two days ago:
Yesterday:
SBM:
Book Review: Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, by Abigail Shrier
According to Harriet Hall, Abigail Shrier’s book describes a disturbing trend: an increasing number of adolescent girls who suddenly self-identify as transgender and demand puberty blockers and gender surgeries. We have no data on how many of them will suffer irreversible damage and regret their decision, and it appears that at least some of them have been unduly influenced by peer pressure, the internet, and by therapists who follow the affirmative care model. (Editor’s note: This post is currently under review by the founding and managing editors of SBM due to concerns expressed over its scientific accuracy and completeness. Until that review is complete, it has been removed from the blog.)
Concerns over its scientific accuracy and completeness? Really? Not over its failure to say the mandatory things? Not its failure to stick closely to the approved ideology?
Science-based. Ha.
But don’t you worry, OB. The 1189 comments are still there.
Everyone has to pacify the trans cultists, lest they all pitch a hissy fit and threaten suicide.
Feminism? Cancelled. Free speech? Cancelled. Science? Cancelled. What next…
Science based medicine… as long as that’s okay with you guys, er, laydeez.
Gorski didn’t like it. Lay you odds.
Harriet Hall has many years in the medical field. I am guessing the people challenging her review don’t.
Mike, yep, I think so. Andy Lewis had an amusing little exchange with him.
Yes, when I saw this I thought “Harriet, whatever they’ve told you about welcoming your article in the spirit of healthy debate and alternative views, they don’t mean it. They will take it back. This won’t be allowed to stand.”
I’m sad to be right.
Didn’t have the heart to read the vast majority of the comments, but the counter arguments I saw were poor.
I read some of them. Saw some of yours, and liked them so HA! SBM, take that.
If you missed it, you can find the article here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210615121816/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/irreversible-damage-the-transgender-craze-seducing-our-daughters/
Thanks for the link, Simon.
Perfectly reasonable review. Well, except for the necessity for Hall to swear up and down, at least twice, that she is not a transphobe, in a failed attempt to keep the mob at bay.
Something about gender identity ideology makes some skeptics lose their minds. Maybe it’s the constant argumentum ad misericordiam. Maybe it’s political groupthink.
Whatever it is, David Gorski should be deeply ashamed of himself.
David Gorski is an oncologist and is brutal in his takedown of scams for fake cancer cures, as well as anti-vaxx, and other medical fake claims. So, he knows science, and must know how far off he is in this. It’s been very disappoitng that he along with noted skeptic scientists are going along with this (even members of the NCSE! promote the transgender line.)
It’s hard days to be a skeptic when even the lions of the industry cower. The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe don’t touch it, but it should be right up their wheelhouse. And Rebecca Watson, don’t get me started. She took so much shit from MRA’s, she should easily recongnize what is happening here, but no.
So, I can conclude that smart people who know better are doing us wrong.
All of the comments that I read were either criticisms of the reviewer’s intentions and personality or they were “science-based” descriptions of trans realities creating a phenomenon so nebulous and all-encompassing as to be worthless.
(Apparently we’re hard-wired for gender as early as 3, but some people can realize they have the “wrong” body for their “gender” after the age of 26. And, anyway, there’s always being “gender fluid” [which can be a life-long thing, apparently, whatever it is]. )
There are so many logical fallacies in the comments, that Steven Novella surely can see what’s wrong with this, right? SBM is an outreach of his New England Skeptical Society.
You’d think, but…
Breaking news:
David Gorski Moderator • 41 minutes ago • edited
Announcement: This article has been formally retracted. See editors’ note in text.
It’s now on Michael Shermer’s Skeptic Magazine site.
“It’s not scientifically accurate!”
It’s a BOOK REVIEW for Pete’s sake!
David Gorski should be embarrassed.
I’d like to boast, but it was an easy call on Gorski.
Everyone can feel “safe” again reading SBM.