I haven’t watched the show so have no idea what scientific facts were denied.

I assume you must have done to make that claim so maybe you can share.

Reports in the Daily Mail don’t count!

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Never seen it, if you won’t accept the statement scientific facts , how about evidence based care for children? Unless you think giving children puberty blockers is acceptable?. So the Mail never print anything truthful? Who does then? Let us know

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It wasn’t actually the BBC, but ITV. I don’t trust the Mail at all. It approaches every story with its own agenda in mind and not the intention of providing a truthful account and allowing the reader to reach their own conclusions. Much of the commercial media are like that but the Mail is especially bad. Whose truthful? As what’s true, or not, is often a matter of opinion that’s going to vary between the receiver. The better question is who is more reliably objective. For me they are the public service providers. Those free of the profit motive.

I don’t know enough about any medical dangers involved in puberty blockers so from a purely scientific view don’t have an opinion. From the emotional and personal view of anyone suffering from gender dysphoria I defer to the professionals involved. They are the experts. Not us.

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CBBC presenter, is that not BBC?

That's fine then as puberty blockers are banned on the NHS now, and in many countries. We still get the lunatic fringes letting off smoke bombs and intimidating more qualified medical professionals, however, for their ideology. I suspect they will be quietly let go by the BBC and rather less quietly referred to the medical council. They seem to be advocating for something that at best is not considered best practice, at worst is actually physically and mentally harmful. I expect at least a concerned Mail reader will have written a letter to the medical council.

Red and Blue Army!

Unfortunately, lunatic fringes exist. Off both the left, right and highly motivated. That's why the cool heads of the medical council, and related organisations, exist. To take the heat out and look only at the facts.

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Anyone see the news yesterday where they interviewed a rather large Lady who complained she needed help with her bills and that she had to resort to food banks.
Maybe if she stopped eating so much then she might have enough money!
Don't mean to be nasty but only on the BBC!

The BBC asks Why are we so ill?

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The article list a number of reasons for the growing number of people who are signed off sick. I am not going to argue against those I assume that they are valid reasons.

However as usual the BBC chooses to omit facts that they find inconvenient.

Nowhere in this article is there a mention of benefit fraud.

I am not saying that the whole article should be about that but you would at least expect to have one small paragraph mentioning it as a factor.

The number of people suffering from illnesses which cannot medically be proved has rocketed e.g. ADHD. The increase in the sick has gone up sharply since COVID as some people got used to free money.

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Go on social media and there are tons of videos telling you how easy it is to get on the sick by conning your GP. Not that I am blaming the GPs, imagine refusing to sign off someone who claims to be depressed who later kills themselves. It's just not worth the risk even if you do suspect that the patient is lying.

Anyway well done BBC another skewed article.

One more point

I wonder how many BBC employees are/have been on sick leave. Huw Edwards ?

I disengage, I turn the page.

Leaving aside the situation of any one individual the BBC is a big employer operating within the UK. It is therefore inevitably impacted by the prevailing attitudes and the benefit culture that has regrettably developed in recent years. Something I believe needs urgent attention, both for the benefit of us all and those taking advantage of it.

Those who are genuinely unable to work because of long term sickness need to be supported adequately. However, they are much smaller in number than those who claim they are. In my opinion. With the ability of home working and the internet skills that most now possess most can do something. If you can write comments on a football forum and use your voice then you can work. So you should.

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