The usual comment on this whenever someone makes this argument is they've never done a randomized controlled trial on parachuteshttps://twitter.com/ZJemptv/status/1337807163356536839 …
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There are obvious ethical and informed consent issues with doing research of this kind This is the basic problem with RCTs for any genuinely serious medical problem It's especially true for the horrific idea of a gender clinic doing an RCT on puberty blockers
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Hell, a true RCT wouldn't even tell the dysphoric kids in the control group that they were in the control group, it would give them placebos Can you imagine doing that to a kid who was becoming depressed and suicidal at the onset of puberty
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Thinking morbidly about this.. it's probably not that hard at all to design a "placebo" parachute that always remains open, looks identical to the real thing, and doesn't catch much air. Basically an umbrella
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I was thinking more "we have given you all a parachute and a backup, but when you get over Normandy a non-zero amount will have flak holes in them. We have no way of knowing which. Good luck!" which is... a thing that happened.
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