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Always a good read.

There’s a major feature of medicine most people don’t grasp. Medicine is a practice, like car repair, law, cosmetology, and architecture.

It is set of methods which evolved through consensus of practitioners into a body of knowledge and way of working. Interestingly, it isn’t science per se, though some practices are based in science. Certain medical practices are not based in science at all, and can contradict scientific evidence.

Take ulcers. Medical consensus for decades was that ulcers were best treated by sedatives, counseling to reduce stress, bland food, relaxation, antacids and surgery. In 1982 it was proven that most peptic ulcers were caused by bacteria and could be treated with antibiotics - scientific treatment.

Yet, doctors persisted in non-scientific treatment - and untold suffering - for decades before they adopted scientific treatment as standard practice.

By claiming sex is assigned at birth, medicine, including psychiatry, devolve back to non-science practice in a major way.

Sex is a persistent truth, an identity, which is determined at conception and observed at birth and throughout life. Claiming otherwise is little different than claiming that all peptic ulcers are caused by stress, or that an imbalance of humors or bad air causes disease.

The claim of gender identity, gender, trans gender, transsexualism and other more exotic terminology is a feature of non-scientific medical practice, totally out of the realm of empirical science. The science of biology, including sociobiology and ethology would identify all of that terminology, including “assigned at birth” as part of a system of sexual mimicry, hiding sex or deploying sexual deception in order to avoid male aggression and sex competition.

Until medicine is measured by scientific content - which is one of the values of insurance, vetting medicine - then it will persist as an unscientific practice and not a science.

The concept of “evidence-based medicine” is the giveaway. Is there any other kind?

Yes.

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