Politically Guided Science

It appears today that the Scientific method has largely been abandoned. In 2022 we wrote, Scientism: A New Religious Movement? and pointed out that science was becoming less and less about forming an hypothesis, conducting experiments to test it and arrive at conclusions. It has traditionally been changeable as new data arrives to question previous conclusions. In many ways that has now been eliminated and replaced with crafting "scientific consensus" to support any currently favored political narrative. Even come liberal press are beginning to be concerned as we see in Newsweek's recent piece, "Unmasking the Pseudoscience: The Truth About 'Gender-Affirming Care": 

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the Endocrine Society, and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) have all released policy statements in support of gender-affirming care. Other organizations, including the American Medical Association, have made public statements in support of "affirming" medicine without citing evidence. But not one of these organizations has done systematic reviews of the evidence, a method of review supposed to prevent the cherry-picking of studies and biased analysis. Their statements of support appear to be grounded in a fear of provoking rabid gender ideologues rather than in sound science.

"On the other hand, Sweden, Finland, the U.K., and Florida have all done systematic reviews, and all reached the same conclusion: There is no evidence that the benefits of this approach for treating gender-related distress in youth outweigh the risks. Recently, Denmark also imposed restrictions, and Norway is poised to follow suit. Even progressive European countries recognize that high-risk and irreversible interventions must meet a high threshold of evidence. Remember, these procedures on children are permanent. There is no turning back once you start to change a child's gender. And yet, as our peer-countries have admitted, there is zero high quality evidence for the benefits of this pseudoscience."

In the public square, "following the science" has gradually been transformed into following the scientism with pays the highest financial dividends and if is harms children or patients, that is fine as long as it advances the politically informed narrative.

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