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When Ideology Corrupts Medicine—and How One Reporter Exposed it
In her book Time to Think, Hannah Barnes follows the story of the Gender and Identity Development Service at Tavistock, where bad science put British youth at risk. (David Sandison via eyevine/Redux)
A conversation with Hannah Barnes about the medical scandal at Tavistock, the UK’s flagship youth gender clinic.
By Bari Weiss
07.15.23
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Last month, Britain’s National Health Service made major news when they announced that they were banning the use of puberty blockers for children, except for those enrolled in a tightly regulated clinical trial. The decision was made after an independent review found there were “significant uncertainties” surrounding the long-term effects of these drugs…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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