Yes, Trump and RFK deserve all the brickbats coming their way, but, um, weren't their critics right behind the whole trans agenda? American medicine lost its reputation a while back. Malcolm Clark at Spiked:
Welcome to a new dark age of American medicine.
This week, Donald Trump gave credence to claims about the MMR vaccine that have been disproven by rigorous medical research. The US president claimed that jabs for measles, mumps and rubella ought to ‘be taken separately’ to avoid ‘problems’. Accompanied by US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, Trump also added that pregnant women should ‘fight like hell’ not to take Tylenol, the US brand name for paracetamol. He implied that taking the widely used painkiller in pregnancy is linked to a ‘meteoric’ rise in autism diagnoses.
These claims have, understandably, been met with a backlash. Experts have tried to reassure the public that MMR and paracetamol are safe. But will anyone listen? Unfortunately, many of Trump and RFK’s fiercest critics undermined their own credibility long ago by promoting equally unscientific ideas – not least the notion that kids can be born in the wrong body.
Senator Elizabeth Warren is one such opponent. ‘You were lying’, she said of Kennedy’s Covid-vaccine stance during a senate hearing earlier this month. Warren was joined in her attack by other Democrat members, including Tina Smith and the left’s prince over the water, Bernie Sanders.
You would hardly have guessed that just two years ago, this same trio put their name to a motion demanding a ‘trans bill of rights’, which aimed to enshrine in law the most extreme version of the trans agenda. The bill would have rendered references to ‘biological sex’ in US discrimination laws meaningless. It would have prevented states from limiting ‘life-saving’ gender-affirming healthcare for children – including puberty blockers, which cause irreversible harm, such as sterilisation. It would also have forced schools, sports organisations and employers to disregard the needs of women and girls.
It wasn’t just politicians who were misusing science. The bill began by citing a list of medical organisations that supported its assumptions about sex and gender – effectively a who’s who of America’s clinical establishment, ranging from the College of Physicians and the Public Health Association to the American Medical Association. In other words, organisations representing the vast majority of America’s doctors were prepared to lend credence to claims about biological sex and ‘gender medicine’ that were scientifically nonsense.
The cries of outrage now lose some of their power when you consider the medical absurdities – telling children they can change sex – that these people have themselves supported.
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