• feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Uh, calm down mate. Maybe you think you’re replying to somebody else? A doctor making their living from providing transgender healthcare is absolutely a biased party, as is any researcher choosing to focus on this topic. That’s reflexivity, it’s quite important to acknowledge.

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      2 months ago

      Buddy that’s like saying you won’t listen to physicists about gravity because they’re biased

      Researching and reporting on scientific realities isn’t bias

      It’s stating the truth

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        2 months ago

        You would definitely need to acknowledge a physicist’s bias towards the theory they have chosen to research. That’s absolutely a thing! I’m not saying anything controversial here. I don’t even like sociology very much, reflexivity is boring and over-emphasised but it’s a legitimate issue, and it’s a big issue in transgender medicine. Which people are very keen to point out when the research doesn’t agree with their own position.