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Five researchers at Norway’s national gender incongruence clinic are appealing a university committee’s finding they committed “gross negligence” and scientific misconduct after the group published studies using the medical records of more than 1,000 minors.

retractionwatch.comResearchers appeal misconduct finding over studies of trans youthOslo University Hospital Five researchers at Norway’s national gender incongruence clinic are appealing a university committee’s finding they committed “gross negligence” and scientific misconduct …

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The researchers here are also in charge of the care of the vast majority of trans people in Norway. That they don't see their own conduct as "gross negligence" is not surprising, since they don't view trans people as fully human. Every trans person in Norway knows these researchers are abusers

I wish the international academic community would understand that if you meet these ppl (Anne Wæhre, Trond Diseth, or Kjersti Gulbrandsen) at a conference, you are meeting people who have wrought untold damage on vulnerable people. You should think of it like meeting a Nazi war criminal or a demon.

Really need to close the quality improvement loophole: if it's going to be published, it's contributing to generalized knowledge and it's research. Let's not have a space where researchers either abuse QI or get misled into thinking they are compliant.

I am grateful to you for this exposure of alleged research misconduct. Matters of consent are of major concern to ethics committees both in research and non-research projects. It also has given me an insight into a case that was perplexing years ago that ended in a colleague losing medical licence.