Civics & health: Sharing medical outcome information (or not)
NEW: Azeen Ghorayshi reports in the @nytimes that prominent gender clinician Johanna Olson-Kennedy of @ChildrensLA has refused to publish data from a study on puberty blockers, fearing that the unimpressive results will be “weaponized” by critics of “gender-affirming care.”
‘We must not publish a study that says we’re harming children because people who say we’re harming children will use the study as evidence that we’re harming children, which might make it difficult for us to continue harming children.’
The top readers’-pick comments on the @NYTimes article on the researcher shielding her null findings from her puberty blocker study for political reasons:
