Interesting Links for 06-07-2024

[andrewducker]

1. What a Labour government means for taxes (mostly good things, although obviously doesn't go far enough)

(tags:tax labour )

2. Nobody has ever won a British election on a smaller vote share than Labour just did. This will cause them big problems in the future.

(tags:labour politics voting uk )

3. Royal College of Psychiatry International Congress: Questions about trans health suppressed

(tags:LGBT psychiatry bigotry transgender OhForFucksSake )

4. Vending machines that are powered by artificial intelligence are selling ammunition for guns in grocery stores in Alabama and Oklahoma

(tags:ai guns shopping USA )

5. Gaza, housing, and trans issues: The reasons young Labour voters turned Green

(tags:Labour GreenParty Gaza transgender housing politics UK )

6. James Timpson has been appointed Minister for Prisons, Parole and Probation. Which is frankly amazing

(tags:prison Labour GoodNews epicwin )

7. Vatican excommunicates Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano for schism

(tags:catholicism conspiracy )

Comments

[andrewducker]

Just taken a closer look.

The original claim is:
"in the seven years before the High Court decision (on 1 December 2020) there was one death of a young trans person on the waiting list but in the three years afterwards sixteen deaths."

The investigation is " based on an internal audit by the Tavistock of deaths among current and former GIDS patients"

I would like confirmation that people on the waiting list are considered either current or former patients.

Because otherwise you're looking at two different populations. Of course people *receiving treatment* are going to act differently to people who are waiting years for it (or dropping off the waiting list after years on it).

[mountainkiss]

God I'm impressed with your command of data. And also that you posted this. I didn't think you would because I thought that people on your friends list would find it wounding.

[andrewducker]

I'd much rather know where we are, and what is really going on. And I can't find that out if I hide information.

I think the main parts of my internal code of conduct which apply here are:
1) You can't get to where you want to be unless you know where you really are, and you won't know that if you pretend that unpleasant data doesn't exist.
2) It is absolutely not okay to say "We're the goodies, so anything that we do to help us win is, by definition, good."

I am delighted to see that people with a much better grasp of data than me have taken apart the review, particularly to note this piece of evidence. But when I do turn out to be wrong, I feel stupid for a bit, change my mind so that I'm now listening to the latest evidence, and carry on pushing for whatever seems like the best outcome using my now-improved rightness.