Very interesting. He is a cult member. I am glad that unethical people like him choose to separate themselves from SEGM. It reflects favorably on SEGM's scientific integrity.
This sounds so insane. Instead of going to a doctor to get a well-informed medical opinion, diagnosis and recommendations for treatment, you'd get a patient directing the doctor to perform treatments the patient wants, regardless of potential harms.
Basically treating the doctor and surgery center like an auto-repair shop for humans.
Thank you, Dr. Haim, for all you've done and for the threats you've endured. Men who ideate a female persona suddenly in mid-life sometimes murder the wife. Here are the stories of Olesya Sinkova and Jennifer Anderson, both strangled to death by a crossdressing husband, both serving rather insignificant sentences in women's prisons.
He is certainly not the "founder" of evidence based medicine, though maybe the founder of a modern movement that popularized that term. I am disappointed that you would write this in a misleading way, as if evidence based medicine was invented in 1991.
Part of what I meant is that the concept of "evidenced based medicine" is hundreds if not thousands of years old. Just practiced to varying degrees of rigor.
Thank you Dr. Haim. My comment is above. I hope you will also read it and watch the 13 minute video so you can help, advise patients and/or let doctors know the adult crossdressing males sometimes assault and even kill their wives.
"Many of the interventions we offer are based on low certainty evidence, and enlightened individuals often legitimately and wisely choose such interventions."
This is bad enough for obvious reasons, but even worse when you consider that doctors have no idea what condiction gender medicine is supposed to treat. Depression? Dysphoria? Activists have been saying for years that these are not necessary components of a transgender identity; trans is whatever a trans person says it is. So not only is there little evidence that these treatments are effective, but we have no solid idea just what they are supposed to accomplish. Is this medicine or magic?
It goestashowya that there's no point it trying to divide the human race into the Good people and the Bad people. It would seem that Dr. G. has done much good, yet Dr. Fauci did much good too, before ... We may never know what would cause a fine scientist to abandon his principles like this but that's the way the cookie crumbles.
People we think of as evil can yet do good things. It seems Trump was invaluable in the recent peace deal in Armenia -- thanks Don. Nixon was a crook but his government was competent. JP is a good guy, but he has his moments of weirdness. I myself would have thought that if there is one purely evil person on the planet it is Dick Cheney -- yet he took a stand against Trump -- thanks Dick. Is JDV a Good person or a Bad person? I don't know, probably both and neither.
Comment to piece author. His quote is: “The high respect for autonomy becomes particularly important when the certainty of the evidence is low or very low.” Where is the logical fallacy? We do not have longterm data, we do not have much evidence of the net benefit or harm. Just because we have evidence that the treatment can harm is not evidence that it has no net benefit. We know lots of drugs harm us, yet many provide net benefits in treatment. The word evidence is presumably about net benefit. (Compare to table salt, chemotherapy, ipecac, etc., can have net benefit in specific scenarios despite normally net harmful in used doses, if given to healthy individual with no conditions)
Dr. Guyatt was several times a candidate of Canada’s progressive New Democratic Party.
For a progressive scientist, like a progressive judge or progressive journalist, the Cause generally outweighs telling the truth.
Very interesting. He is a cult member. I am glad that unethical people like him choose to separate themselves from SEGM. It reflects favorably on SEGM's scientific integrity.
This sounds so insane. Instead of going to a doctor to get a well-informed medical opinion, diagnosis and recommendations for treatment, you'd get a patient directing the doctor to perform treatments the patient wants, regardless of potential harms.
Basically treating the doctor and surgery center like an auto-repair shop for humans.
For shame, Dr. Guyatt.
Great piece!
Thank you, Dr. Haim, for all you've done and for the threats you've endured. Men who ideate a female persona suddenly in mid-life sometimes murder the wife. Here are the stories of Olesya Sinkova and Jennifer Anderson, both strangled to death by a crossdressing husband, both serving rather insignificant sentences in women's prisons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHRqk8IPJPI&t=637s
He is certainly not the "founder" of evidence based medicine, though maybe the founder of a modern movement that popularized that term. I am disappointed that you would write this in a misleading way, as if evidence based medicine was invented in 1991.
Definitely agree with your assessment. He is the founder of "modern" evidence based medicine. Also agree that most of it is statistical voodoo.
Part of what I meant is that the concept of "evidenced based medicine" is hundreds if not thousands of years old. Just practiced to varying degrees of rigor.
Thank you Dr. Haim. My comment is above. I hope you will also read it and watch the 13 minute video so you can help, advise patients and/or let doctors know the adult crossdressing males sometimes assault and even kill their wives.
From the McMaster statement:
"Many of the interventions we offer are based on low certainty evidence, and enlightened individuals often legitimately and wisely choose such interventions."
This is bad enough for obvious reasons, but even worse when you consider that doctors have no idea what condiction gender medicine is supposed to treat. Depression? Dysphoria? Activists have been saying for years that these are not necessary components of a transgender identity; trans is whatever a trans person says it is. So not only is there little evidence that these treatments are effective, but we have no solid idea just what they are supposed to accomplish. Is this medicine or magic?
It goestashowya that there's no point it trying to divide the human race into the Good people and the Bad people. It would seem that Dr. G. has done much good, yet Dr. Fauci did much good too, before ... We may never know what would cause a fine scientist to abandon his principles like this but that's the way the cookie crumbles.
People we think of as evil can yet do good things. It seems Trump was invaluable in the recent peace deal in Armenia -- thanks Don. Nixon was a crook but his government was competent. JP is a good guy, but he has his moments of weirdness. I myself would have thought that if there is one purely evil person on the planet it is Dick Cheney -- yet he took a stand against Trump -- thanks Dick. Is JDV a Good person or a Bad person? I don't know, probably both and neither.
Comment to piece author. His quote is: “The high respect for autonomy becomes particularly important when the certainty of the evidence is low or very low.” Where is the logical fallacy? We do not have longterm data, we do not have much evidence of the net benefit or harm. Just because we have evidence that the treatment can harm is not evidence that it has no net benefit. We know lots of drugs harm us, yet many provide net benefits in treatment. The word evidence is presumably about net benefit. (Compare to table salt, chemotherapy, ipecac, etc., can have net benefit in specific scenarios despite normally net harmful in used doses, if given to healthy individual with no conditions)