Comment on Review says puberty blocker curb has not led to suicide rise

• galmuth@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s not denial, it’s looking at the evidence.

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  • mecfs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    More like suggesting there is no reliable evidence.

    As the law of funding bias says, only research that corroborates powerful interests will get the funding necessary to create a reliable body of evidence.

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funding_bias

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• HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s not debunking. That’s denial of the problem.

  Plenty of reasons to reconsider this stupid extreme ban, And this is clearly weighing the limited evidence of suicide higher than the lack of evidence of harm.

  IE, it’s a bit hypocritical to ban something with no real evidence of harm. Simply because it has not been proven to be safe, And then argure the limited evidence of suicides, is a reason to continue.

  But words matter. So no it is not a denial. It is saying the difference between pre ban suicides and post ban suicides is statistically irrelevant. IE the changes are not usable as evidence. (yet as honestly the ban is far too recent for any of this data to be of value)

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  • IzzyScissor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    In the article, they only count 3 minors that have committed suicide since the ban, because they put additional qualifiers like that they had to already be on a specific treatment plan in order to count.

    Your preliminary numbers already destroy their argument, which is kind of my point.

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• ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You’ll find the nuance is age

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