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Children on puberty blockers saw mental health change, new analysis suggests – BBC Newsnight
The majority of children in a landmark study on puberty blockers experienced positive or negative changes in their mental health, new analysis suggests.
The original study of 44 children, who all took the controversial drugs for a year or more, found no mental health impact – neither benefits nor harm.
But a re-analysis of that data now suggests 34% saw their mental health deteriorate, while 29% improved.
The new study has not been in a peer-reviewed journal yet.
The authors say they felt there was an urgency in getting the information into the public domain.
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Tech Now’s Paul Carter finds out how technology powering advanced prosthetics is also helping train humanoid robots.
The Ability Hand is a special piece of prosthetics technology, with two ambitions running through the same piece of hardware.
One is to give somebody their grip back. The other is to take what that person’s hand already knows – and teach it to a machine.
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About 700,000 eggs from Dutch farms in contamination scare have been distributed to UK, up from estimated 21,000
As the Dutch egg contamination scandal rumbles on, we ask how safe are the country’s 10 billion eggs?
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Signal president Meredith Whittaker warns that AI could ‘supercharge mistakes’ in warfare | BBC News
AI can always be controlled, the president of encrypted messaging app Signal has told the BBC. Meredith Whittaker said fears that …
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AI can always be controlled, the president of encrypted messaging app Signal has told the BBC.
Meredith Whittaker said fears that AI could become conscious and take over were “not anchored in science and evidence”, warning instead about the dangers of using the technology in military decision-making.
The former Google employee said AI could “supercharge mistakes” and reflected on her role in opposing the company’s involvement in a US military drone surveillance project.
Speaking to the BBC Global Women, Whittaker also questioned who gets to shape the future of AI, criticised the concentration of power in Silicon Valley and explained why Signal would leave a country rather than compromise its users’ privacy.
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Developer Moonshot is conducting an internal review after researchers were able to persuade two of its popular Kimi models to tell them how to make biological weapons and carry out assassinations.
Mindgard, which tests the security of AI systems, told the BBC it discovered in July that Kimi K2.6 and K3 Swarm could evade safety limits put in place by developers.
It arose during a process called “jailbreaking”, where researchers use a series of complex instructions to see if AI tools ignore guardrails – which Mindgard said should have stopped Kimi from discussing concerning topics.
Moonshot told the BBC it welcomed third-party input “as a key pillar for building better and safer AI”.
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@megsley
January 8, 2024 at 3:51 am
the drugs cause early onset osteoporosis, prevent critical and NECESSARY brain development from taking place, and set kids up for life long medical complications like rheumatoid arthritis, not to mention these drugs render children PERMANENTLY STERILIZED.
@songulsonmez5014
January 8, 2024 at 3:51 am
And you think, maybe the Unabomber was rlght..
@mmacclesfield3439
January 8, 2024 at 3:51 am
What happened to the 15 children alleged to have deteriorated mental health? No link to the original study nor the reinterpreted study you derive the figure of 15 from. This is weak and full of supposition.
@andychow5509
January 8, 2024 at 3:51 am
It's obvious. You can "delay" a biological process. You can alter it.
@hellgates_javed6451
January 8, 2024 at 3:51 am
Any doctor that approves this should be jailed
@curutosan
January 8, 2024 at 3:51 am
"it's licensed to be used to castrate sex offenders". And you're using it on children…
@ReactiveDogDiaries
January 8, 2024 at 3:51 am
If the drugs aren’t meant to be used this way THEN WHY TF IS THE SYSTEM ALLOWING THEM INTO HEALTHY DEVELOPING ADULTS??!!?
@ReactiveDogDiaries
January 8, 2024 at 3:51 am
Puberty pausers *
@SabrinaScott
January 8, 2024 at 3:51 am
Puberty blockers aren’t for kids!
@paolom.6011
January 8, 2024 at 3:51 am
44 subjects and the BBC paints this story.
@ZOMBIEHEADSHOTKILLER
January 8, 2024 at 3:51 am
its a crime, not a medical treatment.
@AnotherJonDoe
January 8, 2024 at 3:51 am
Hey BBC. Any news on Bidens failed southern border, the millions of illegal immigrants entering the United States on a daily basis, or how Joe created more jobs in his first 2 years in office, than any president has in 4 years?
@clankb2o5
January 8, 2024 at 3:51 am
I remember reading on Tumblr (lots of trans people there) that puberty blockers were harmless. When I searched for scientific papers myself a while ago, though, I found that the evidence was mixed –at best. This analysis once again shows that puberty blockers were implemented without adequate thought. But trans people, like everyone else, suffer from the cognitive bias of believing what they want to believe. My opinion at present is that we should 1) stop overdiagnosing being transgender, 2) let puberty happen naturally and support transgender people with physical aspects of transitioning when they're adults, 3) fully accept trans people as forming part of the diversity of the human race.
@hivemistressherguineapigfa8563
January 8, 2024 at 3:51 am
It is a very big & important process to go through, so of course there's going to be mental health changes.
@ojhuk
January 8, 2024 at 3:51 am
Kids don't need puberty blockers they need toxic social media platform blockers.
@fisherkieds6282
January 8, 2024 at 3:51 am
I have a rare genetic disorder,I've been on hormone therapy since I was 14
You idiots are playing with fire
@georgecuyler7563
January 8, 2024 at 3:51 am
Think entire fad is pushed to far, by parents, teachers and medical professionals. Just my humble opinion and it has to stop. They can wait until they reach age of majority. My opinion is tainted with bias, as i was put into the foster system in order to make me like a white person, because I was born Indian and the government is still trying to take the Indian out of the Indian. When I was placed in my final foster home I mostly spoke three Indigenous languages with some english . My parents tried to get me to speak english but I had a hard time, so my grandfather's took me and taught me Heiltsuk, Nu7lhalk and Chinook. By the time I aged out i could speak none of my ancestral languages, how i wished i could speak those languages once i found my roors again at twenty seven. That's when my moms told me i didn't speak much english when I was last taken away. Today if I'm not expecting to be spoken in either of the three languages I'll answer in english. I haven't lost them, they're sleeping within me. Now in some circles because I have learned a lot about Indigenous culture, i am considered an Elder, but i see myself as a knowledge keeper.
I was forced to live like a white man until I was 19, and I'm considered to white to live in my traditional territories.
When you force grown-ups ideals on children you marr them for life.
@ilyaizaga-brandon1017
January 8, 2024 at 3:51 am
As a trans woman living in New Zealand on one of the long acting "puberty blocker" 3 month depot injections I’m astounded by how toxic this comment section is. You’re not allowed onto them until you’re sixteen and by then your shoulders are already starting to broaden. I went on it at 17 and it saved my life. I don’t believe I would be here if it wasn’t for an understanding GP. There’s so many hoops and hurdles you have to go through and the 3 month waiting period where they do two psych evaluations and ask you extremely dehumanising questions. Like "what pornography do you masturbate to" "do you cut yourself on your genitalia" and "how do you masterbate, what do you typically use" which would never be asked of somebody who identifies with the sex they were born in. Only after then are we allowed access to gender affirming healthcare in the form of prescriptions otherwise the majority of trans people are self medicating with imported hormones, and we would rather they were in the healthcare system than not. It’s just a simple fact that my identity is being used as a political talking point when it has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with dignity and privacy. Are we not entitled to a shred of decency ?
@aarononeal9830
January 8, 2024 at 3:51 am
BBC News needs to talk about Ecosia they are a search engine that plants trees
@estebanperez4171
January 8, 2024 at 3:51 am
Biggest child abuse scandal of our lifetime
@clairhonnor6211
January 8, 2024 at 3:51 am
If you arrest the development of children, you are left with fucked up adults