Misreading a Flawed Study
Vaccination against UTIs is a novel idea that holds enormous promise, but clinical trials must be well-designed and carefully analysed.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 5 min read
Medicine
A collection of 16 posts
The Life and Death of a Medical Study
A 2015 study found that black newborns attended by white doctors die at twice the rate of those in the care of black doctors. The study’s refutation last year has not altered the progressive narrative of systemic racism in medicine.
Stewart Justman
· 9 min read
Eager to ‘Affirm,’ Yet Unwilling to Debate
A prominent South Carolina doctor and transgender rights activist has made a great show of calling England’s Cass Review “a sham at best”—but now refuses to say why.
Colin Wright
· 7 min read
The Cass Effect
A landmark report properly emphasises the application of science, not slogans, in establishing treatment protocols for trans-identified children.
The Quillette Editorial Board
· 14 min read
Defending Academic Freedom in Higher Education and Medicine
The success of the academy requires academic freedom and tolerance for viewpoint diversity. These critical values are under increasing threat.
Jeffrey S. Flier
· 12 min read
An Absurd Umbrella: Neurodiversity and the Autism Spectrum
Autism has become a catchall term to explain and dismiss the problem child. But it can also be viewed as a superpower.
Jason Garshfield
· 9 min read
Banning the Blockers
Gender clinics from Stockholm to San Francisco have been running an uncontrolled experiment on children, while cloaked in the mantle of human rights.
Bernard Lane
· 9 min read
The Placebo Effect’s Evil Twin
The Nocebo Effect occurs when we experience pain, depression, or illness based on nothing more than negative expectations.
Michael H. Bernstein
· 8 min read
Ending the Hunger Games
New pharmaceuticals appear to offer a genuine solution to the problem of excess appetite, that uncontrollable urge to eat more than we need to that keeps so many of us fat.
Iona Italia
· 25 min read
Unconscious Bias in Medicine: A Canard
Evidence that clinical decisions are driven by unconscious bias remains conspicuously lacking.
Stewart Justman
· 8 min read
The White House’s Specious Gender Manifesto
The White House is claiming that the debate about childhood gender medicine is settled—even as numerous international experts are coming forward to say it‘s not.
Bernard Lane
· 18 min read
The Ideological Aversion to Harm Reduction
Putting a patient under general anesthesia is a dangerous business. Waking a patient up from anesthesia is an ugly one. After I turn off the gas the patient typically thrashes and writhes like a sinner in Hell. Yet such resistance has never bothered me. I don’t want good and
Ronald W. Dworkin
· 9 min read
Autism or Encephalitis? My Son’s Misdiagnosis and Our Family’s Season in Hell
Encephalitis recovery often takes years, not months, and some patients never fully recover.
S. Stiles
· 19 min read
Rethinking Health Disparities
True progress in medicine can only be accomplished when we maintain a consistent standard of scientific excellence and honest inquiry.
Zachary Robert Caverley
· 11 min read
How CRISPR-Enabled Gene Editing Could Change Our World: A Huntington's Disease Case Study
Because Huntington’s disease is caused by a single gene mutation, it is a prime early target for clinical trials involving somatic cell genome editing.
Françoise Baylis
· 9 min read