Writing at TakiMag, Dalrymple argues that the proposal to give puberty blockers to prepubertal children as part of a long-term clinical trial represents a profound ethical failure rather than a triumph of scientific caution:

The ethical objections to the experiment are so obvious that what is most significant is that there is any need for them to be pointed out… If it is argued that, without such an experiment, we will never know whether the drugs do any good or not, the reply must be: So be it. There are some things that we cannot, for ethical reasons, find out, not without losing our humanity.

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