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They Knew the Media Had the Story Wrong...and Didn't Correct It How a flawed study became a media sensation, and why no one stopped it Lisa Selin Davis Wikimedia /creative commons In February of this year, JAMA Network Open published an  article  called “Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care” that claimed “receipt of gender-affirming care, including puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormones, was associated with 60% lower odds of moderate or severe depression and 73% lower odds of suicidality over a 12-month follow-up.” TheUniversity of Washington then published a press release repeating the study’s conclusion: “Those who received gender-affirming hormones or puberty blockers had 60% lower odds of depression and 73% lower odds of self-harm or suicidal thoughts.” And then, the media picked it up and ran all the way across the field with it: “Amid Attacks on Care for Trans Youth, New Study Confirms Why It's Life or   ...

Another Conspiracy Theory Vindicated: MSNBC Tells Peasants ‘You’ll Miss the Deep State When It’s Gone’ Ben Bartee MSNBC and The Daily Beast recently made an amazing admission that the Deep State – the permanent DC bureaucracy that persists from administration to administration – is real. David Rothkopf –  an acolyte of war criminal Henry Kissinger  — said the quiet part out loud on national television and in a column he penned titled “You’re Going to Miss the Deep State When It’s Gone.” Via  The Daily Beast : “During his presidency, Trump was regularly frustrated by the fact that government officials—appointees as well as career officials in the civil service, the military, the intelligence community and the foreign service—were an impediment [to his agenda].” In the piece and in the interview, Rothkopf and the MSNBC news actor celebrate unelected technocrats working behind the scenes to thwart the will of the elected president. Which is a most peculiar developm...