Experts commonly believe that the only opinions that should count are their own. But what about when their opinions are the ones denying science?
The New England Journal of Medicine has published an article called “ Protecting Transgender Health and Challenging Science Denialism in Policy .” It is the latest example of using denialism to denigrate any opinion contrary to that of the latest set of experts to claim sovereignty over a controversial subject. The technique is to stifle debate and force discussion from the subject to defense of an unrelated issue. This is what the NEJM paper does to perfection.
The authors place the management of transgender and transgender expansive (TGE) people as an issue between concerned scientists on the one hand and ignorant science deniers on the other. In their view everything on the subject is settled; they have the prescription for the management of TGE, and there is […]
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