A harbi a fadin baka da Masanin kimiyya na Amurka ci gaba da gangarowa zuwa cikin rashin kimiyya, a BMJ binciken da aka rubuta fiye da dozin shafukan sada zumunta na babban editan Laura Helmuth da ke inganta kulawar transgender ga yara, duk da shaidar kimiyya da ke nuna irin wannan magani yana da "mummunan sakamakon” ga kananan yara.
"Dokokin da ke hana yara ƙanana samun magani mai tabbatar da jinsi suna da haɗari da cin zarafi, da kuma kan duk shaidar likita," Helmuth ya buga akan X a ƙarshen 2022, ɗayan misalai da yawa cewa BMJ aika zuwa Scientific American da mawallafinta na Springer Nature, yana tambayar su don bayyana shawarwarin trans na Helmuth wanda yana gudana sabanin shaidar likita.
A cikin wasu sakonnin kafofin watsa labarun, Helmuth ya lakafta masu sukar magungunan transgender masu haɗari ga yara "masu son zuciya," "masu girman kai," "ƙaddara," "bayanai," "m," kuma ya kwatanta su da Nazis.
A bara, Helmut ya inganta labaran karya a cikin Scientific American wanda ya bayar da hujjar, "Binciken a bayyane yake kuma duk kungiyoyin likitocin da suka dace sun yarda: Kulawa da tabbatar da jinsi shine tushen shaida & dole ne a likitanci & yana haifar da sakamako mafi kyau ga yaran trans fiye da ƙin kula da su."
Bayan kwana shida, da BMJ fitar da bincike na sabon bincike gano cewa shaidun kula da transgender ga yara ba su da wata shaida kuma hukumomin kiwon lafiya suna yin taka tsantsan.
Ingila, Scotland, Wales, da Sweden duk sun daina rubuta masu hana balaga ga yara, ban da nazarin bincike, da likitan hauka na Finnish wanda ya fara kafa filin kula da transgender ga yara yanzu ya kira shi "mai haɗari." Hukumomin kiwon lafiya na ƙasashe da yawa sun kammala cewa binciken da ke inganta jiyya ga yara ya kasance na son zuciya ko kuma maras inganci.
The BMJ Niyya na Laura Helmuth gargaɗi ne, iri-iri - gargaɗin cewa ya kamata Helmuth ya mai da hankali kan kimiyya, ya daina ba da shawarwari, kuma ya daina faɗin abubuwan banza. Amma idan ka ci gaba da karantawa Scientific American, sa ran Helmuth ya ci gaba da faɗin abubuwan banza.
A watan da ya gabata, Steven Pinker na Harvard ya yiwa Helmuth lakabin "mai kishin farka" akan X kuma ya inganta labarin tattaunawa Masanin kimiyya na Amurka gangarowa zuwa akidar ci gaba. "Wata jami'ar Amurka mai daraja ta shiga cikin ƙasa lokacin da amintattun amintattu suka ba da makullan ga mai tsattsauran ra'ayi," An buga Pinker.
Labarin da aka inganta ya bayyana a ciki jaridar birnin ("Ba'amurke mara kimiya”) kuma ta rubuta a hankali a kan koma bayan mujallar ta zama rigar siyasa tun lokacin da Helmuth ya hau kan karagar mulki a farkon shekarar 2020. Wasu kafafen yada labarai kuma sun jefa idon rashin yarda kan yakin siyasa na Helmuth.
The Wall Street Journal ya lura Helmuth ya wallafa a shafinsa na twitter a bara cewa "gwada suna da nau'o'in chromosomally daban-daban guda hudu," wanda ya tilasta bayanan al'umma akan X don gyara kuskuren Helmuth.
"Abin mamaki ne yadda @sciam - wani ɗan jarida na lokaci-lokaci na sha'awar - ya faɗi daga manufarsa na samar da ingantaccen, bayyananne, da fayyace labarin kimiyya," Farfesa Yale kuma likita Nicholas Christakis, an buga akan X.
"EXCLUSIVE: unScientific American! Shahararriyar mujallar masana sun yi kakkausar suka akan labarin 'farke' mai suna 'Me yasa Jima'i Ba Binary ba', " ya ruwaito Daily Mail, 'yan watanni kafin Christakis' sukar Helmuth. Dokta Carole Hooven, masanin juyin halitta a Jami'ar Harvard, ya fada Daily Mail cewa Masanin kimiyya na Amurka iƙirarin da ba na kimiyya ba na iya jefa mata cikin haɗari.
"A matsakaici, maza sun fi mata girma da karfi, kuma suna aikata mafi yawan fyade da kisa. Yawancin maza suna iya kashe yawancin mata da hannayensu." Hooven ya bayyana. "Wadannan hujjoji sun ba da sanarwar kafa dokoki da manufofin zamantakewa waɗanda ke kare wuraren mata, musamman ma waɗanda mata ke cikin wurare masu rauni kamar inda suke barci ko shawa (ɗakunan kurkuku da ɗakuna, alal misali)."
Jami'ar Chicago Emeritus farfesa na ilimin halittu da juyin halitta, Jerry Koyne, ya rubuta sau da yawa game da Helmuth yana haɓaka da'awar da ba ta dace ba Scientific American, wanda ya yi wa lakabi da "Scientific Pravda."
Wani ya kira hankalina ga sababbin labarai guda uku da op-eds a cikin Scientific American waɗanda ba su da kimiyya a cikinsu, amma tsantsar akida ce ta nau'in "ci gaba". Na yarda da wasu ra'ayoyin da aka bayyana a cikinsu, kamar yadda yake a farkon. Amma abin da nake nufi shi ne, kamar yadda aka saba, in nuna yadda duk abin da ke cikin kimiyya, ciki har da mujallar "shahararriyar" da aka fi karantawa, akida ta mamaye. Ba wai kawai wannan ba, amma akidar tsiri daya ce kawai: “Mai ci gaba” (ko “farke,” idan za ku so) akida, ta yadda sashen “ra’ayi” ba ya kunshi ra’ayoyi mabambanta, amma yana bayar da ra’ayi daya ne kawai, kamar Pravda na Kimiyya. Ka tuna cewa editan ya ƙi lokacin da na ba da shawarar rubuta op-ed mai bayyana ra'ayoyi daban-daban (amma ba dama ba).
A baya jaridar birnin labarin a cikin 2022, marubucin kimiyya Nicholas Wade ya kira Masanin kimiyya na Amurka daga ilmin halitta"sabon Lysenkoism” yana nufin koyaswar Soviet da ta tilasta wa masanan ilimin halitta yin watsi da juyin halitta da kuma tsarin halittar tsirrai don dacewa da akidar siyasa.
Kuma a cikin bincike na gudanar da BMJ ("Labarin leak na covid-19: shin kafofin watsa labarai sun fada cikin yakin neman zabe?") Na lura cewa Helmuth ya tursasa Daraktan CDC Robert Redfield don gaya wa CNN yana tunanin cewa cutar ta Covid ta fito ne daga dakin binciken Wuhan:
Haɓaka haɓaka don ɗaukar yanayin leb ɗin lab a matsayin wanda ya cancanci bincike mai zurfi ya sanya wasu 'yan jarida kan tsaro. Bayan Robert Redfield, tsohon darektan Cibiyar Kula da Cututtuka da Cututtuka, ya bayyana a CNN a watan Maris, editan kimiya na Amurka a cikin Maris, Laura Helmuth, ta tweeted, "A kan CNN, tsohon darektan CDC Robert Redfield ya raba ka'idar makircin cewa kwayar cutar ta fito daga dakin binciken Wuhan." Washegari, Scientific American ya gudanar da wani muƙala yana kiran ka'idar leak ɗin lab "kyauta shaida."
A takaice, Helmuth yar siyasa ce wacce ba ta damu da kimiyya sosai ba, sai dai idan kimiyya ce ta dace da siyasarta ta kashin kanta.
The BMJ Bincike ya haskaka da Cass Review wanda ya sami ƙaramin shaida don tallafawa iƙirarin Helmuth na cewa masu hana balaga ko wasu hanyoyin jiyya na yara ba su da lafiya, gami da tiyata. Dokta Hilary Cass likita ce dan kasar Birtaniya kuma tsohuwar shugabar kwalejin kula da lafiyar yara da lafiyar yara ta Royal, wanda ya kwashe shekaru uku yana nazarin shaidun da ke tabbatar da kula da matasa masu tambayar jinsi.
A cikin kwanan nan hira tare da New York Times, Dr. Cass ya ce likitoci a Amurka suna "bayan zamani"tare da fahimtar kula da yara. "Amma abin da wasu kungiyoyi ke yi shine sau biyu akan cewa shaidar tana da kyau," Dr. Cass ya fada New York Times. "Kuma ina tsammanin a nan ne kuke yaudarar jama'a."
Kuma a cikin podcast don BMJ, Dr. Cass ya lura cewa daga cikin binciken 100 don masu hana balaga da kuma maganin hormone, biyu kawai sun kasance masu inganci. Ta kuma yi watsi da ikirari da masu fafutuka irin su Helmuth suka yi cewa kulawar trans na rage haɗarin kashe kansa a cikin yara.
"Akwai, abin takaici, babu wata shaida da ke tabbatar da jinya a cikin mafi girman ma'anarta yana rage haɗarin kashe kansa," Dr. Cass ya ce, a lokacin BMJ podcast.
A ƙasa akwai saƙonnin kafofin watsa labarun da yawa ta Laura Helmuth crusading don trans care ga yara - yawancin su saƙonni masu haɗari ga yara, duk basu da ingantacciyar shaidar likita.
Don nemo sabuwar ingantacciyar shaidar likita akan kula da yara, da fatan za a karanta Binciken Cass, wanda NHS Ingila ta ba da izini don inganta sabis na shaidar jinsi na NHS, da kuma tabbatar da cewa yara da matasa waɗanda ke tambayar asalin jinsinsu ko kuma suna fama da dysphoria na jinsi sun sami babban matsayi na kulawa, wanda ya dace da bukatun su, yana da aminci, cikakke, kuma mai tasiri.
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Paul D. Thacker mai ba da rahoto ne mai bincike; Tsohon mai bincike na Majalisar Dattijan Amurka; Tsohuwar Cibiyar Da'a ta Safra, Jami'ar Harvard
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