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This is worse than discounting medical advice. This is about suppression of medical evidence on the basis of a political agenda.

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This is an allegation of suppression. No evidence is provided in the article that the supposed suppression actually happened.

As with:

- the climate

- Covid

...there seems an increased need for skepticism about pretty much all claims.

There is plenty of evidence that both the climate and Covid exist. Not sure what case you're making here.

I think I'm making a case for skepticism here, in the light of all the unsettledness of the science, especially the recent, New Shiny topics.

So should you also include flat earth and the moon landings and topics?

Have these topics been promulgated as The Science?

What it contains is a lot of evidence that they had every intention of suppressing medical evidence, and they repeatedly insisted on having that ability. It's hardly a stretch to say that they've likely made good on those threats when work is submitted to them which never gets published.

It’s objecting to the Cass report, which doesn’t include any new original data or experimental results.

It’s fine to object to bad faith medical publications about an extreme minority, which is being granted authority by the NHS while more benevolent (and rigorous) researchers are being swept under the rug.

It is incredible that people with zero medical expertise continue to attack a 4-year, expert, impartial review - based on 7 peer-reviewed systematic reviews - of the treatment of gender dysphoria in minors. Because they want distressed teens to be given drugs instead of therapy.

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