I watched Bad Surgeon, but haven’t seen or listened to Dr. Death. There were definitely parallels I saw with Paolo and some of the gender medicine. One aspect was how he performed his experimental procedure on patients who were suffering terminal illnesses. But, of course, he didn’t say his methods were totally experimental, or ask them to sacrifice themselves for science. He told these patients and their families that he was their only hope. He treated them like throw away people. And he abandoned them as soon as he was done operating on them. Short term follow up showed success, but long term follow up showed awful failure--including death. And all the while he felt he was a genius. Many parallels to the key figures in gender medicine. Highly recommend parents watching it with your ROGD kids (if they’re not too young) to introduce some critical thinking around medical interventions.
So many! I kept thinking of Dr. Sidhbh Gallagher. I have a hard time imagining my way into the head of someone who would look at the lack of evidence here and go ahead and perform these procedures. It doesn't seem an accident that clinicians involved in this don't want to treat detransitioners.
Another thing I have been thinking about is the banality of evil ( am reading Hannah Arendt’s book for a discussion group I am part of). The banality of evil is the failure to think that the things that you do in a specific instance: you complete a task for the state, like organizing the removal of Jews to concentration camps, or you treat a specific child according to the WPATH standards of care, and you fail to imagine, to think that your act could lead to an unspeakable evil, even if you never personally saw the consequences or treated someone who was harmed by what you did. The failure to think “what if this is wrong? What if this person changes their mind?”, the blithe dismissal… “be it on their head”; “but what about the people who don’t regret?”, “they gave informed consent, they knew what they were getting into.” If that sort of indifference isn’t evil, what is?
I participated in the Moderna Covid vaccine study and multiple impact evaluations of economic development programs. Hypotheses are formed, protocols for collecting data established, and if necessary, studies are subject to the approval of institutional review boards. This doctor seemed to be operating solo, failing to carefully document results or ensure follow up, and cherry picking results. This is quackery. Similarly, gender medicine practitioners are providing "care" far outside any research setting so they are not operating under the guise of institutional review boards. Even those that are "researchy" fail to establish protocols, focus on the short-term, and cherry pick results. This is also quackery.
I watched Bad Surgeon, but haven’t seen or listened to Dr. Death. There were definitely parallels I saw with Paolo and some of the gender medicine. One aspect was how he performed his experimental procedure on patients who were suffering terminal illnesses. But, of course, he didn’t say his methods were totally experimental, or ask them to sacrifice themselves for science. He told these patients and their families that he was their only hope. He treated them like throw away people. And he abandoned them as soon as he was done operating on them. Short term follow up showed success, but long term follow up showed awful failure--including death. And all the while he felt he was a genius. Many parallels to the key figures in gender medicine. Highly recommend parents watching it with your ROGD kids (if they’re not too young) to introduce some critical thinking around medical interventions.
So many! I kept thinking of Dr. Sidhbh Gallagher. I have a hard time imagining my way into the head of someone who would look at the lack of evidence here and go ahead and perform these procedures. It doesn't seem an accident that clinicians involved in this don't want to treat detransitioners.
Another thing I have been thinking about is the banality of evil ( am reading Hannah Arendt’s book for a discussion group I am part of). The banality of evil is the failure to think that the things that you do in a specific instance: you complete a task for the state, like organizing the removal of Jews to concentration camps, or you treat a specific child according to the WPATH standards of care, and you fail to imagine, to think that your act could lead to an unspeakable evil, even if you never personally saw the consequences or treated someone who was harmed by what you did. The failure to think “what if this is wrong? What if this person changes their mind?”, the blithe dismissal… “be it on their head”; “but what about the people who don’t regret?”, “they gave informed consent, they knew what they were getting into.” If that sort of indifference isn’t evil, what is?
I participated in the Moderna Covid vaccine study and multiple impact evaluations of economic development programs. Hypotheses are formed, protocols for collecting data established, and if necessary, studies are subject to the approval of institutional review boards. This doctor seemed to be operating solo, failing to carefully document results or ensure follow up, and cherry picking results. This is quackery. Similarly, gender medicine practitioners are providing "care" far outside any research setting so they are not operating under the guise of institutional review boards. Even those that are "researchy" fail to establish protocols, focus on the short-term, and cherry pick results. This is also quackery.