The U.K.’s National Health Service is preparing to test puberty blockers on children, and it plans to pay them to participate. According to The Telegraph, the NHS will recruit more than 200 minors under 16 into a clinical trial of puberty-suppressing drugs and offer vouchers worth up to £500 for completing study requirements, including cognitive testing and brain scans. These drugs are restricted from routine use after a major independent review questioned the strength of the evidence behind them. The NHS said that it would review puberty blockers after more data was available but now they are apparently doctoring that data. If children are incentivized with money and vouchers to take these harmful drugs, won’t they be more likely to continue using them, therefore skewing data? Also, does this make up for the high risk that comes along with these drugs? The government knows that puberty blockers are associated with chronic headaches, hot flashes, fatigue, reduced bone mineral density, low IQ, infertility, and more. And they still want to pay kids to try it out? I’m starting to think they don’t really want to produce real-world data about puberty blockers. The post Paying Kids to Test Puberty Blockers? appeared first on Redacted.