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RobotToaster@mander.xyz 7 months agoI’d have to look at their exact rationale to know for sure why they excluded those studies.
Unfortunately disproportionately high standards for evidence isn’t a new thing in the UK medical establishment though, NICE’s recent rejection of ketamine for depression was pretty shaky IMO.
CatTrickery@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
In this case, they used an adaptation of Newcastle Ottowa scale, however they didn’t provide an appendix of what those adaptations actually were. The specific points were raised that the studies weren’t double blind, which would obviously be a violation of basic ethics in this case. There were multiple conversion therapists involved in the report so its pretty reasonable to assume malicious intent.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Ah, okay, I misunderstood what you meant by “The way in which they dismissed the evidence was notably the exclusion of double blind studies.” I thought you meant they had excluded studies for being double blind, which would obviously be quite weird.
It’s frustratingly common in mental health (which gender dysphoria is still considered) for regulators to demand double blind studies, no matter how strong the evidence from observational studies is.