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Natalie Em's avatar

“The guideline authors say this change was driven, at least in part, by recent data showing how American kids’ rate of weight gain increased during the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic. They interpret this as evidence that “watchful waiting” has failed.”

You alluded to this but I just want to emphasize - even if we accept this is the real/only reason, it’s still bullshit. It fails basic research principles on its face!

During a random internet journey yesterday I coincidentally read about the only NYC homicide recorded on 9/11. The FBI doesn’t include the attacks in their 2001 crime statistics because “the number of deaths is so great that combining it with the traditional crime statistics will have an outlier effect that falsely skews all types of measurements in the Program’s analyses.” You’d think a bunch of supposed scientists would underhand that better than law enforcement, and yet here we are.

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Michele's avatar

I keep coming back to the fact that we don’t know the long term effects of these drugs or the long-term results of bariatric surgery. Meaning, like, 40 years on. We don’t have data on that. And a child cannot consent to that. You are modifying an organ system and they are legally unable to consent. It’s infuriating.

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