The Corruption of Medicine

[GURPS]

American Academy of Pediatrics Named In Bombshell Detransitioner Lawsuit​

Young girl was "unfortunate victim of a collection of actors who prioritized politics and ideology over children’s safety," lawsuit states



Isabelle Ayala, now a twenty-year-old woman, had just turned fourteen when she was committed to the hospital for suicidal thoughts, according to the lawsuit. It was during this hospital stay that she met with Dr. Jason Rafferty, who during his first brief meeting with Ayala determined that she “meets criteria to consider hormonal transition,” with the only stated obstacle being parental consent. The lawsuit states that Rafferty and other doctors sent Ayala down the “path of ‘gender-affirming’ medicalization” rather than addressing the true roots of her mental health problems — six months into her testosterone treatments, Ayala tried to commit suicide.

The treatments, however, continued, until Ayala moved away from Rhode Island and decided to quit them “cold-turkey.” Now comfortable with her gender, she regrets what the doctors did to her, the lawsuit says.

“Isabelle is now twenty years old and longs for what could have been and to have her healthy, female body back,” it says. “The changes the testosterone have had on her body are a constant reminder that she needed an unbiased medical expert willing to evaluate her mental health and provide her the care she needed, rather than a group of ideologues set on promoting their own agenda and furthering a broader conspiracy at her expense.”

The lawsuit not only goes after the doctors who treated Ayala, but also the American Academy of Pediatrics, where Rafferty and his colleagues worked to publish a now-infamous policy statement advocating for aggressive gender treatments for children. Lawyers for Ayala say the policy statement laid the groundwork for an “entirely new model of treatment” based on “outright fraudulent representations” of scientific proof.

 

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[GURPS]

Oh man, this is rich. Public Health could not possibly get more tone-deaf. On Friday, the Infection Disease Society of America awarded bowtied-wonder Peter Hotez its Anthony Fauci Courage in Leadership award.

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Over the weekend, I covered a related story, featuring another annoying, liberal, pro-mandate millionaire: the unkempt, nutty professor Peter Hotez. Hotez recently won the Anthony Fauci Award for Courage, and no, that is not a joke. On Saturday, Hotez lit a fuse on social media by tweeting about how so many of his colleagues were dying suddenly and mysteriously lately, arrogantly wondering if the deaths were caused by “overwork,” or “exhaustion.” You know, from working so tirelessly and selflessly for the ungrateful masses during the pandemic.

Because work! Work can kill you. Suddenly and unexpectedly:



Well, even though he smartly limited comments to his twitter friends, somebody must have alerted Peter to all the attention his ill-considered tweet was getting, because Hotez deleted the tweet sometime yesterday. It’s off of twitter now. But don’t worry! I’ll keep running it.

Legally, evidence of an intent to conceal something is admissible as evidence of consciousness of guilt.

But set that fruitful vein aside for the moment. Combine Hotez’s earnest but 100% tone-deaf tweet fiasco with Professor Galloway’s request for “grace and forgiveness.” What they have in common is a race toward the bottom. Galloway is right, the pandemic was a total s-show, and it was Galloway and Hotez’s fault. It’s becoming undeniable.

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[GURPS]

Over the weekend, I covered a related story, featuring another annoying, liberal, pro-mandate millionaire: the unkempt, nutty professor Peter Hotez. Hotez recently won the Anthony Fauci Award for Courage, and no, that is not a joke. On Saturday, Hotez lit a fuse on social media by tweeting about how so many of his colleagues were dying suddenly and mysteriously lately, arrogantly wondering if the deaths were caused by “overwork,” or “exhaustion.” You know, from working so tirelessly and selflessly for the ungrateful masses during the pandemic.

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Having been proved right times one thousand, I take no joy; I feel only that familiar kind of annoyed satisfaction tinged with parental concern, the way you feel when a small child is told not to play with the fire wand — twice! — and then suddenly flames off his little eyebrows.

I told them so. A wild, uncontrollable tornado of backlash has now been unleashed, and the smug so-called experts are all sitting blithely in its path, like idiots, daydreaming and plucking at daisies, not realizing they’re about to be snatched up, badly shaken, and rudely deposited under somebody’s house in Kansas with their trousers irreverently hauled up in knots around their lying little necks.

Treasonous Archfiend of Pseudoscience and unkempt celebrity grifter Peter Hotez recognizes the danger. Maybe not the full scope of the danger. But Hotez wrote a horrible, self-pitying book last year (that nobody is reading) side-splittingly titled, “The Deadly Rise of Anti-science: A Scientist’s Warning.” Okay, Peter. Whatever.

Hotez’s authorial tour (or more likely his P.R. team) prompted the publication of some truly horrible fake-news propaganda, like this ludicrous headline from the corrupt Canadian Broadcast Company back last September:





(Wait. A pediatrician? Are you kidding me? My first gobsmacked thought was, who in their right mind would leave their children with Peter Hotez? I’d bet my next three paychecks that disheveled doctor doesn’t see any kiddies as patients at all, that’s just another in a long series of lies. But I digress.)

And, “a scientist’s warning?” Please. Give me a break. That’s all they’ve been doing for the last four years, warning us about a million fake crises that never materialized. If only Peter and his cronies had listened to a lawyer’s warning. From mid-2020 I was telling them as often as I could that, while they could ram their unwanted public health ‘science’ down our throats as pandemic mandates and emergency edicts, eventually there would be a reckoning.

Welp. Their reckoning cruise ship has sailed up to the dock and is now ready for boarding. Time to go.

Hotez was partly right about one thing. There’s an ‘anti-‘ movement afoot, all right, but it’s not anti-science. It’s anti-expert. And since they themselves broadened the definition of “expert” to include just about anyone with a post-graduate degree or university job, the target zone is, as they say, rich.

You will recall, I’m sure, last month’s humiliating self-owns by Harvard President Claudia Gay and Penn State president Liz Magill. One way of thinking about what happened is the diverse academics were mauled by an unforeseeable pro-Israel zeitgeist that popped out of nowhere like a career-killing Jack-in-the-Box. Or, maybe they were exposed as woefully underqualified DEI hires, fuzzy-minded hypocrites, and overpaid flim-flam artists.

But there’s no escaping the fact that, before the pandemic Gay and Magill would have gotten away Scott-free with their arrogant refusals to give straight answers to the questions from dull, non-PhD-having Congresspeople. Instead, they pranced prettily into the propeller blades because credentialed experts have no trust residual to draw on anymore. Nobody likes them. Nobody trusts them. They were wrong about everything.

In other words, everyone is fed up with academic experts who think they are better than everybody else just because the media fawned over their every word during the pandemic. They are now experiencing a rude awakening.

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[GURPS]

I can offer no more recent evidence of the tsunami of reckoning washing away the edifice of fake expertise than yesterday’s Harvard Crimson story headlined, “Top Harvard Medical School Neuroscientist Accused of Research Misconduct.” It’s bad. A Harvard darling, a so-called expert and top medical science research professor, now stands credibly accused of having falsified (Portlanders: that means made up) his data and having plagiarized other people’s images and illustrations, in over 20 of his papers during a twenty-year period. Over once a year on average.

Meet prolific plagiarist “Doctor” Khalid Shah. If that’s his real name:





The Crimson story suggests the doctor may have taken a few shortcuts, you know, to make sure his papers popped and so that he would get the “right” answer.

Who knows how much the alleged cheating contributed to Shah’s meteoric career? While other academics toiled away, following the rules, not obtaining the astounding pro-pharma results like the not-so-brilliant Dr. Shah did? Real science is a lot harder.

Shah’s deceit was discovered by data manipulation expert Elisabeth M. Bik. Ms. Bik is every woke academician’s worst nightmare. She is a “real” expert with a talent and a passion for sniffing out academic fakesters. Nowadays Elisabeth uses A.I. and reverse image searching to help, but she’s written guides explaining how you too can help expose fraudulent Harvard doctors. According to Liz’s bio, her exposé work has resulted in 1,069 Retractions, 149 Expressions of Concern, and 1,008 Corrections (as of last November).

If you’re a science type, here’s a link to Elisabeth’s blog post on her investigation of Dr. Shah’s ‘work,’ if you can call it that.

For everybody else, according to the Crimson, Bik found 44 different examples of made-up data in Dr. Shah’s papers between 2001 and 2023. But the “most damning” problems were from Shah’s 2022 paper in Nature Communications (it had 32 other authors, but Shah was the lead author). Bik said Shah’s 2022 paper contained figures and images stolen from seven other papers (written by other scientists) plus some images copied straight off the websites of two scientific product vendors.

For instance, one of Shah’s pinched pictures came from an online catalog by R&D Systems, which makes scientific research antibodies. Shah did not give credit to R&D Systems for using its image in his 2022 article. Instead, Dr. Shah claimed the image was from his own work and — get this — he edited the picture’s labels to show a completely different antibody than the original.

Totally fake. Fake, fake, fake fake fake.

“This is a really unusual sort of thing that I cannot imagine how this happens by accident,” drily noted an independent professor who reviewed Bik’s findings for the Crimson.

Harvard again! What is obvious beyond denial is the bigger movement afoot: the anti-expert movement. Ms. Bik’s helpful labors are but one small special forces unit in the army of discontent that Peter Hotez can see coming through his smudgy, pie-shaped eyeglasses. Mark my words. Their downfall will be so complete that before this is over, they’ll be claiming they were set up.

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[SamSpade]

The odd thing is - the reasons given are sound, medically.

But they fail - LOGICALLY - on so many levels, it sounds more like an argument against fat shaming than trying to help people. You cannot argue against weight loss, because it might be done BADLY - or ultimately fail. You think some diets are bad? I GUARANTEE that the diet the overweight person is indulging NOW isn't healthy at all.

I've had surgery - and been on many diets - and I can tell you, all of the benefits named are true. I was borderline Type 2 - it went away. I had HBP - after weight loss, gone. I had terrible sleep apnea - gone. Before surgery, my doctor said he'd give me 5-10 years. At the very worst - I gained 5-10 years of life. THAT THERE - is proof enough.

There is NO UPSIDE for continuing to be fat. It is ALWAYS unhealthy. No doctor even tries to argue that staying fat - even getting fatter - is ok, especially when we are talking OBESE or MORBIDLY obese. You will almost never see a morbidly obese OLD person.

Like alcohol - some people are going to have a problem with weight - I don't know if it is genetic, but having struggled with weight all my adult life, I've certainly looked on with envy at peers who never push back from the table, eschew healthy food and yet - seem to be fine - as opposed to me who seem to be able to gain weight eating salad.

I know all about weight loss - I also know that if I don't keep the pounds off - I will not be there when my children are grown. The most horrifying event I can recall, was burying my morbidly obese uncle - at age 55 - the youngest member of his family - and watching his kids pound and sob over his casket. A tragedy that could have been avoided.

 

[Hijinx]

How many freaking Shah's are there and are they all Doctor's?

 

[spr1975wshs]

How many freaking Shah's are there and are they all Doctor's?

Of the 4 doctors I see over the course of a year, only 1, my oncologist, is a Shah.
Others are: Patel, Patil and Khan.

 

[Grumpy]

Of the 4 doctors I see over the course of a year, only 1, my oncologist, is a Shah.
Others are: Patel, Patil and Khan.

Ain't diversity grand?

 

[Kyle]

How many freaking Shah's are there and are they all Doctor's?

At least one of them was, at one time, King of Iran.

 

[Hijinx]

At least one of them was, at one time, King of Iran.

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,

 

[GURPS]

China Has Rapidly Increased Market Share of U.S. Medical Glove Imports During Biden Presidency​

Blue Star’s chief executive Scott Maier and other prospective domestic glove manufacturers have been briefing members of Congress and their staffs about the Biden administration’s failures, meeting with lawmakers and congressional investigators to inform them of the nation’s vulnerabilities. Maier told Breitbart News that these vulnerabilities are steep if this problem is not addressed soon.

“We recognized the supply chain issues before the pandemic that having 99 percent of a critical medical item come from overseas is not a viable model,” Maier said. “Now that we can make these things cost-competitively here in the U.S., having this 25 percent safety valve is just a good safety practice. Leaving ourselves vulnerable that any country or supply chain hiccup can cripple our healthcare system is just absurd. I liken it to: Whenever you build a hospital, you are required, by law, to have a backup generator because that is a critical piece of infrastructure that should never go down. This healthcare supply chain is just as critical. If doctors and nurses don’t have the equipment to do their job, we are in trouble. They cannot touch you without a glove on. To have all of these gloves imported from overseas and almost half of them coming from China begs the question again: Why are we putting ourselves in this position?”

Technically speaking, at this time, Maier estimates that the Strategic National Stockpile only has about a 12-day supply of medical gloves available—all of which expire in 2024. That means if the CCP so desired, Beijing could severely hamper the U.S.’s ability to respond to a medical emergency, such as another pandemic, by simply cutting off the flow of the gloves China exports to the United States on a moment’s notice.
That makes a waiver from Biden’s “Made in America” office particularly interesting. Early in 2024, Biden’s administration announced a waiver for the U.S. government to purchase more than 55 million boxes of pairs of nitrile medical gloves from overseas. The procurement waiver explicitly notes that the United States cannot meet the demand for making these at home. The document actually admits the Biden administration failed in this regard. “Currently, domestic sources for NBR are limited and due to the quantity of gloves needed by the Government, domestic sources may not be able to meet the NBR [Nitrile Butadiene Rubber] demands for this procurement,” it reads in part.

While it is unclear at this time which country these gloves may be purchased from, they may come from China in the end. But Maier told Breitbart News that as he and others have been briefing congressional officials on these shortcomings, “the reaction is from everyone their jaws drop.”
“Everyone assumed that HHS had taken care of this,” Maier said. “And when they learned that the effort was started but nothing is being produced, they can’t understand.”

What, if anything, Congress may do about this remains to be seen. But hope is fading fast as the U.S.’s vulnerability remains exposed. Trump, meanwhile, has criticized Biden most recently in a Breitbart News exclusive interview late in 2023 for Biden’s failures as president on this front and said if elected again, he would get these projects—not just this one but the many others Biden has screwed up too—back on track.

 

[GURPS]

You Should Probably Fear the NHS







How soon before this happens here in the US

 

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UCLA Med School forced first year students to attend 'structural racism' course where screaming pro-Hamas speaker told them to kneel for bizarre woke 'prayer', while pediatrician DEI boss looked on​

• Lisa Gray-Garcia gave the two-hour presentation at university's campus
• Part of the Structural Racism and Health Equity class mandatory for freshmen
• Gray-Garcia yelled 'Free, Free Palestine', previously called October 7 'justified'

First-year UCLA medical students were forced to sit through a bizarre lecture by a pro-Hamas activist who made them pray to 'mama Earth' while a faculty member sought to identify one student who refused to participate.

Lisa Gray-Garcia gave the two-hour presentation at Geffen Hall, on the university's downtown campus on March 27.

The lecture was a mandatory part of the Structural Racism and Health Equity class that all future doctors must take, administered by pediatrician Lindsay Wells.

Gray-Garcia calls herself a 'poverty skola', keeps her face covered with a keffiyeh except in a few interviews, and called Hamas' October 7 attack 'justified'.

Students were instructed to touch the floor with their fists while she made a 'non-secular' prayer to 'mama Earth' and our 'ancestors', a complaint stated.

'Mama earth was never meant to be bought, sold, pimped, or played,' Gray-Garcia said during the prayer, part of which was recorded by a student and given to the Washington Free Beacon.

 

[Clem72]

Hah, I like that term "justice impacted individuals".

(im-pak′shŏn ) impactio, stem impaction-, concussion, impact] A condition of being tightly wedged into a part, as when the eruption of a tooth is blocked by other teeth or when an organ is overloaded, as the bowels by feces.

They got crammed so full of justice they are impacted.

 

[Hijinx]

The real story is that only one student had the courage to not go along with this Bullsht.

 

[GURPS]

NHS Labels you delusional for wanting to live Who OWNS YOUR LIFE

Socialize Medicine is SO Wonderful

Patient SK killed by the State​

 

[Hijinx]

The American health care industry has gone to sht.
The Doctors who come out of school are faced with malpractice insurance that they cannot afford and an office and a nurse, and a wizard that can figure how to get money from insurance companies and send bills and figure out taxes.

So: What do they do, They join Medstar or the Shah's or some other outfit that does all of this for them.
Medstar has a computer to make appointments and call you to remind you when your appointment is and get you to fill out BS forms before being seen, but you cannot speak to this computer. Your Primary may see you in 2 weeks if you are lucky and happen to call them instead of going to the emergency room or urgent care. Then you go to your primary and wait an hour until being seen for their ten minute limit per patient.
If you are really sick an go to the hospital, they introduce you to some Doctor who is appointed to see you. You have never seen this guy or gal before. You know nothing of his/her competence, and they know nothing of your medial history except that some other doctor sent you here because they discovered something was wrong with you. If you are lucky and survive they tell you to see your primary in a week before they release you. It took you four hours in the emergency room , or perhaps 12 or 14 dependent on how crowded they are upstairs, then you stay however long it takes and when you leave it takes another 3 hours to get checked out. Don't believe me? Go there.

Doctors are no longer Doctors who have to care about their patients, they are now 9 to 5 employees who leave there and go home and don't think about you until you show up again next year for your physical, By that time you have been seeing another Doctor at urgent care or perhaps just a nurse while the doctor was on TV watching the nurse care for you. Don't believe me? Hell I was there. I watched it happen./