Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine, trading on the trust hard won by the medical profession at large BEFORE THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, DOCtors were feared rather than trusted. Their brutal, ineffective methods earned them nicknames like quack, leech and sawbone. Their ignorance of how infections spread meant they carried illness and death wherever they went.
That changed with the discovery of microorganisms and the invention of vaccines, antibiotics, anaesthetics and all the other weapons with which doctors now fight disease, save lives and ease pain. Few women die in childbirth any more; most children survive into adulthood. And doctors get the credit. Polls around the world routinely rank them as the professionals people trust most.
Underpinning this trust is the scientific method, especially…
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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2024