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There is, of course, much more to this story, but you should read the rest from John Colapinto:

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/as-nature-made-him-john-colapinto

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Dec 2, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

If we are dependent upon craven people to call out the bullshit, we are lost. This will not end well.

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Holy fuck. This could make a good man want to go kill a motherfucker.

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Very well written but how horrible! Those "Dr God" doctors should do serious prison time. Most people don't know that there really are people like that. I can't imagine why this essay makes me think of St Fauci of Wuhan...

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Dec 2, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

This is horrifying to read, and I've heard this story before.

Unfortunately, in the fields I've been involved in professionally, the cravenness of the doctors does not strike me as unusual. I've seen plenty of successful academics and professionals fake results while those around them unwilling to call them out. This is not a new problem and I don't know whether it is fixable. The heroes are those who speak out.

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There is this myth that people become doctors because they want to heal and help people. I think we have *finally* accepted that some pretty awful people become clergy, but for a long time it was priests, doctors, and teachers who were altruistic, and the rest of us were just money-grubbing schmucks (unless we're lawyers, in which case we're money-grubbing a**h*les).

I know a lot of doctors. Women my age, with whom I went to school at some point (mostly college). One of them is a detective by nature, and she wanted to go into a field with consistent intellectual stimulation and challenges, problems that need to be solved. She cares deeply for her patients, but fundamentally, she wants to solve their problems because she loves a challenge. The rest of them? They were good at memorizing, good at pre-med courses, good at chemistry and biology, etc. They had an aptitude for it. They have varying degrees of ... ethicality. Their aptitude for biology, fine motor skills, ability to memorize, etc., has nothing at all to do with whether they're decent people.

So it has never been a mystery to me why doctors didn't stand up against the tyranny of the past three years. It's the same reason that (broadly speaking, and with maybe a few exceptions) teachers didn't, parents didn't, etc., etc. We all make excuses for our own bad behavior; some of us make excuses for worse behavior than others.

One other thing is that early on, doctors get used to the idea of screwing up and having a patient die (or having patients die despite doing everything they could). They get kind of inured to it. So they have a bit of the attitude one might expect in a corrections officer. Anyone who has ever had an elderly relative seek medical care is familiar with the dismissive attitude of many health care professionals, who (all too often, but not always) shrug about the elderly person's medical issues, totally OK with the person's death and not too concerned about figuring out if what she has is treatable.

It is a mistake in dealing with a priest, doctor, or teacher to assume that that person gives a sh*t at 1/100 of the level you do. You have to fight for you, because that person is not going to. Yes, there are exceptions, but you'd be a fool to base your behavior on them.

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Dec 2, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Starting with the first doctor's incompetence, all the way through, they collectively destroyed an entire family! What monsters! And are we much better off today? The entire healthcare establishment are evil too. With rare exceptions. SMDH

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Dec 2, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

I’m going to tread a bit lighter than usual here. I knew the plastic surgeon who worked with Dr. Money, Milton Edgerton, MD. He was a prolific researcher, teacher, and clinician. A brilliant and industrious guy who made a lot of contributions to plastic surgery in diverse areas. I believe he always did his best to help patients. The medical profession, particularly in that era was pretty paternalistic, and while it’s quite disturbing to me to read this story, it’s not entirely surprising.

Firstly because there was a lack of knowledge, and secondly there was the physician-as -God problem and a lot of cowboy behavior in that era. But there were controversies about gender transforming surgery, from inception. There were also less rigorous institutional research reviews. (Although COVID vaccine “science” has definitely blown any credibility of medical scientists sky high. )Paul McHugh,MD also at Hopkins and fmr. Chairman of the Dept. of Psychiatry there, has a totally different take on the transgender question and his writings are worth reading. He’s still writing at 91. I believe he and Dr. Edgerton butted heads over this issue. Heritage.org actually has quite a bit of useful information on gender dysphoria treatment outcomes and political forces at work.

There are some patients who benefit from treatment, but there’s also a huge amount of bad science, bad policy and ulterior motives at work these days and vulnerable people are being injured and misled in excessive numbers.

In my opinion, its not appropriate at this juncture to aggressively transition minors and the results in terms of mental illness a be suicide are not very good in trans adults. One concept that we seem to have set aside is “Primum non nocere.” First, do no harm. We would be better off if we endeavored to follow that precept.

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Obviously, "the science" has been around for a while.

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Dec 2, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

And now it seems Money prevailed and even triumphed when you read how many children hospitals offer "gender affirming" care to minors - let's face it - they're in it for the money and the doctors they employ to do it are at a minimum immoral and in my opinion criminal as are their employers. This is such a sad story that destroyed everybody's life that was touched by this psychopathic doctor and the cowardly doctors who were more concerned for themselves than their patients - clearly a violation of their oaths. Surprising to me is how it seems the majority will go along in spite of ALL evidence to contrary ! Thanks Chris for this excellent and timely piece.

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There should be state and federal laws on the books to claw back money and royalties from the crooked "renowned" doctors. Only when the economic risk of fraud or malfeasance is greater than the reward will this crazy stuff stop. While lawyers will ger rich on these types of lawsuits and the well-connected will receive lesser punishment, it will feel like there is at least some minimal level of fairness in our lifetimes. The true punishment for these bastards will come on their judgement day.

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Dec 2, 2022·edited Dec 3, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Doctors. Misplaced trust. The pandemic informs they will kill you to protect their license. And they will mutilate your child and have you arrested for trying to stop them. They've been elevated by society to believe they are the most trustworthy and smartest humans among us, healing and protecting life. Perhaps they once were. But they have also been guilty of the worst human atrocities in the history of mankind. Mengele's infamy just one in a long line of murderous "healers." "Witchdoctors." Who presided over human sacrifices where they were performed. Elevated by authorities since tribal times as the most trustworthy.

That’s why they were chosen to be the state’s Stasi informants. They hold the (unearned) highest trust in society. They’ve been tasked by many state laws to gather information that authorities want and report it to them. Started in this most recent medical construct with child abuse injuries.Then expanded to include info on gun ownership in house, alcohol and drug use. Also to inquire if racism is in the house (it’s a declared health emergency, you know). Even asking children, the most trusting of all, these types of questions. All types of info gathering that authorities know people would never tell a police or social worker investigator. But they trust their doctors.

Doctors have been commissioned as the community Stasi agents of the 21st century in the US and other nations. Trading on previously earned trust, respect and integrity. And you must know that your medical chart now follows you. If you tell your doctor you enjoy the occasional happy hour with friends it's likely that your chart that follows you to a new doctor you visit may indicate you’re a drunkard. Or if you refuse to answer or are belligerent your chart is updated with warnings about your mental health, propensity to violence. Sad truth of it.

Your medical providers are not your friend. And must be treated like a police investigator subjecting you (and your unattended children in the examination room) to questioning. And where taking the Fifth and not answering can and will be used against you.

Your only options are to lie about everything personal unrelated to your treatment, parrot the upright socially respectable narrative. Or drop out of the allopathic medical system and adopt complementary and alternative care like homeopathy, ayurveda, naturopathy, traditional and cultural healers, etc. Who aren’t agents of the state and just help you stay well.

Licensed medical professionals are only good for trauma injuries like car accidents and knife and gun wounds. While many good and honorable people go into the field of allopathic medicine, and I know some of them, the sad fact remains that we've seen during the pandemic that most will injure or kill you to protect their license. Most won't research outside a small universe of propaganda-influenced publications and inform themselves, even of medical protocols that flip 180-degrees from what they were taught as immutable facts and know when applying common sense are wrong.

The medical profession, sadly, tragically, murderously, has been revealed, as the media has, to be enemies of the people. Find a natural healer for your best health care. Allopathic care is used by only 25% of the world. Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Naturopathy, Cultural healers, all other ways to wellness care for the other 75% of the world's population. Suffering less cancer and similar life expectancies found in western medicine. Unregulated by the state: regulation = controlled by authorities. Clean water and sewage systems the single largest differentiation in health outcomes across the world'd population.

Allopathy is far from the best type of medical system. And is controlled by a system that would rather you die and stop producing carbon and draining the public treasury. You useless eaters.

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Dec 2, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

You can see very clearly the parallels with Fauci, the researchers he manipulates and how so many in the American public still adore him. A family member just returned from Switzerland- he said they’re done- done with masks, jabs, the whole sh’t show, and Germany wants Fauci drawn and quartered. And then there is poor Canada being held hostage by Trudeau. I don’t know how long their citizens can hold on - 1 in 30 are opting for assisted suicide and I honestly can’t wrap my mind around that - there’s hardly anyone in that huge country as it is. But Chris, thank you for pointing out the real issue - these medical professionals are weak, mentally deranged losers who think nothing of throwing their patients under the bus and backing over them for good measure. Dr. “Money” indeed.

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There is much more here than chickens@@t doctors. See https://robertyoho.substack.com/p/125-the-bs-free-mds-interview-dr#details

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Dec 2, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

What a sad story. I see your point of the doctors following behind the top evil doctor. They all just cared about their careers more than people.

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Happens all the time in "psychology," and other pseudo-sciences.

Paul Ekman is a world-renowned "expert" who claims he can read fleeting facial twitches (micro-expressions), associate those twitches with emotions, and then detect lies based on this.

It's all bullshit, of course. But other deception detection experts are terrified to call Ekman's bluff.

Meanwhile, Ekman had a TV series (Lie to Me) based on his hocus-pocus, and won a lucrative DHS/TSA contract to "train" TSA screeners to identify terrorists, based on their facial twitches. The program, SPOT, cost nearly a billion dollars, over several years. It never identified a single terrorist.

And yet, because Ekman is a world-renowned, celebrated, highly published (peer-reviewed, doncha-know!), PR-savvy scammer, none of the real experts dare to speak out.

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