Consider my priors unchanged
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Jesse Singal has what he believes is strong evidence that the “whistleblower” whose story he desperately wishes were true because it would prove a culture war talking point is on the level. It…is not:
he really does not know how obviously deranged he looks to anyone examining his claims even slightly realistically pic.twitter.com/gvTs1w0fbE— Senator Bribeluncheon (@FuzzyMarth) March 10, 2023
So Signal asked a prominent TERF if Reed’s story seemed credible, and Anderson cited 1)someone who was admittedly joking, and 2)some secondhand rumors. In terms of support for Reed’s story, this is less than nothing. Reed is also still not providing any independent corroboration. So as it stands now there are more than a dozen corroborating witnesses saying that there was nothing bad going on at the clinic, and zero corroborating witnesses for Reed’s claim that children — including those who allegedly identified as mushrooms and attack helicopters — were rushed into gender treatments without parental consent. As of now, it’s not a close call and Singal’s blog changes nothing.
But wait, it gets worse:
When your research into how HIPAA works definitely resulted in a full and correct understanding. pic.twitter.com/KaltqCjpcf— Megan Greenwell (@megreenwell) March 11, 2023
The below is correct: if you can connect it to the patient, sharing it is a HIPAA violation. It’s why doctors have to get consent to publish case reports even after scrubbing name/age/DOB etc: the patient’s course is still unique and thus identifiable.https://t.co/lLEkWS2sCI https://t.co/1iIAQ2pr5n— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) March 11, 2023
I’m not an expert so I won’t say whether or not Reed’s cavalier treatment of patient records constitutes a HIPAA violation. But it sure seems like unethical behavior, and the idea that it should make her account more credible is absolutely bizarre.
This is frankly beginning to bear a more than passing resemblance to the time Singal bought the Walt Whitman Bridge from Alice Goffman.