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To nominate the principle authors of the CASS review for this..

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NameChangeCass · 14/04/2024 09:47

“Advocates of evidence based medicine have criticised the adoption of interventions evaluated by using only observational data. We think that everyone might benefit if the most radical protagonists of evidence based medicine organised and participated in a double blind, randomised, placebo controlled, crossover trial of the parachute.”

https://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459.short?fbclid=IwAR0hTt57o-yFS61aJE-IGCpKSPaDs--rdrPlbiby_wBCF1czpAWDaCcAEcM_aem_ATiWMtvZxiSzw8pj9CX271gyDByuMHTOKwQskBcCXx9aZOj1IPusHJ_z79olcRiFlhE

Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials

Objectives To determine whether parachutes are effective in preventing major trauma related to gravitational challenge. Design Systematic review of randomised controlled trials. Data sources: Medline, Web of Science, Embase, and the Cochrane Library...

https://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459.short?fbclid=IwAR0hTt57o-yFS61aJE-IGCpKSPaDs--rdrPlbiby_wBCF1czpAWDaCcAEcM_aem_ATiWMtvZxiSzw8pj9CX271gyDByuMHTOKwQskBcCXx9aZOj1IPusHJ_z79olcRiFlhE

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TheKeatingFive · 14/04/2024 10:15

The grownups have taken the reigns back love. Thankfully. It is in everyone's interest to move forward with an evidence based approach.

BibbleandSqwauk · 14/04/2024 10:15

Well yes...the same medical trials that any drug has to go through. The only circumstances in which that should be sometimes ignored is in cases of a terminal condition where an experimental drug, not fully tested can't do any more harm. That's absolutely not the case with these ones, and as easily pointed out, there are now young people in their twenties detransitioning, having realised that the issues that led them to it in the first place weren't actually about gender nor were those issues solved by transitioning. Surely if any group is to be protected from not properly tested drugs and therapies, it's children who cannot possibly be expected to understand the risks, side effects and future downsides.

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NameChangeCass · 14/04/2024 10:13

NameChangeCass · 14/04/2024 10:01

Ok for some context. The CASS review has made recommendations that puberty blockers (and other medical treatments for trans children) should no longer be routinely be available on the NHS on the grounds that there isn’t enough evidence on their efficacy. In reaching this conclusion they chose to discard evidence from around 100 studies on the grounds that these studies weren’t double blinded , randomised control trials.

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So I’m asking - WIBU to nominate these excellent scientists to participate in a double blinded randomised control trial of the of the parachute? To see if they work? We only have observational evidence so far… 🤔

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NameChangeCass · 14/04/2024 10:01

Ok for some context. The CASS review has made recommendations that puberty blockers (and other medical treatments for trans children) should no longer be routinely be available on the NHS on the grounds that there isn’t enough evidence on their efficacy. In reaching this conclusion they chose to discard evidence from around 100 studies on the grounds that these studies weren’t double blinded , randomised control trials.

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SamphiretheTervosaurReturneth · 14/04/2024 09:55

Maybe if you added a bit .ire about what you actually mean...

Pheeeeebs · 14/04/2024 09:52

What is with all the mystery? Just ask what is on your mind.

BibbleandSqwauk · 14/04/2024 09:49

What? How about you just explain your thoughts on Cass?