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 31 May 2024 · 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 29 Apr 2024 · 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 25 Apr 2024 · 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 21 Apr 2024 · 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 25 Mar 2024 · 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 11 Mar 2024 · 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 7 Sep 2023 · 25 min read
Unconscious Bias in Medicine: A Canard Evidence that clinical decisions are driven by unconscious bias remains conspicuously lacking. Stewart Justman 5 Sep 2023 · 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 13 May 2022 · 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 17 Mar 2022 · 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 21 Jan 2022 · 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 24 Jun 2020 · 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 18 Dec 2019 · 9 min read
Medicine Must Not Forget the Psychosocial The real beauty of the biopsychosocial approach is that it has application to the individual (both in terms of causal explanation and of treatment offered), to the wider population, and to research. Tim Rogers 18 Jan 2017 · 8 min read
