An excellent Sonia Sodha piece on the news that Professor Jacob George has been recused by the MHRA from the puberty blocker trial on account of his gender-critical beliefs:
Regardless of whether their action is lawful, this incident is very troubling for anyone who cares about the way science and medicine parse ethics in a highly-contested space. It was ideological activism that led in the first place to distressed children being prescribed unevidenced and potentially very harmful drugs, with long-term risks for their fertility, bone density and brain development. The MHRA needs to be on high alert to the risk of manipulation by those same activists.
George appears to have been the only sensible one in a crowd of ideologists. And now he’s been forced out.
Mick Hartley 
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