New York Times Doubles Down On Intentional Disinformation Re: Testosterone

Absolute bullshit from the FDA

It is beyond baffling that the New York Times, which many rely on, and even praise, for competency in journalism overall, can have so many writers with their heads up their asses when it comes to fitness, diet, obesity, and testosterone.

Over the years the Times’ “reporting,” as it is humorously labeled, on these very subjects has been highly prejudiced in favor of the ignorant, disproven and downright stupid. The penultimate example was a bizarre lengthy piece about all the whiny excuse-making contestants on the TV show The Biggest Loser, who following their successful participation and extreme weight loss, gained an entirely new, food-frenzy-fueled couple hundred pounds of morbid obesity once more—the apologist writers quick to claim—through no fault of their own whatsoever.

This latest waste of precious space (HERE) in the NYT is authored by an Adam Popescu, who knows nothing about that which he has been paid (I assume) to write. The article, focusing on testosterone supplements, rambles all over the place without making any cogent point whatsoever. And like all his likeminded predecessors on the subject of testosterone, Popescu manages to double down on the mistaken, disproven, debunked and prejudicial from which any simple Google search could have rescued him journalistic humiliation.

Popescu inserts the preposterous claim of "Some research, however, indicates that men using testosterone therapy have a higher risk of heart attack or stroke..."

"SOME RESEARCH"? My, that's quite definitive! Who can possibly argue with something so bulletproof as the completely non-specific citation of “some research”?

The writer links to an FDA website which, following an unhinged and hysterical headline (see the above illustration), only then, within the article, tepidly and unassuredly warns about some "possible" (as in, not proven whatsoever) TRT links to heart disease and stroke. Then within this FDA article the FDA links us to a 4 year old meeting in Italy (2014 Meeting Materials, Bone, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee) which drew this "possible" conclusion. Keep in mind that it was a 2013 article published in JAMA that has since been derided, discredited, debunked and professionally condemned by hundreds of medical professionals worldwide that infected and fueled this knee-jerk 2014 Italy Meeting "advisory" that the FDA bought into lock, stock and barrel and irresponsibly spread without question, it being the most recent false door to anti-TRT claims.

Popescu, like all assholes of his ilk, cherry picked data to fit his deepest trepidations stemming from his self doubts and his own feared lack of masculinity. The FDA article he links to states, way down at the end (the FDA being assured most people wouldn’t read that far) the following: “Some studies reported an increased risk of heart attack, stroke, or death associated with testosterone treatment, while others did not.” —Yeah, Popescu edited that insignificant part out, the "while others did not" qualifier, since it was unsupportive of his deeply prejudiced screed.

Again, what a bunch of non-committal bullshit the fucking FDA pukes out on us. “...Others did not”? Notice that the FDA feels no need whatsoever in this article to expand upon those "other" studies, nor to include specific data within related to those stated "others." Rather, the FDA included only their so-called "data" supporting their prejudicial and completely disproven “risk” warning.

What a shit show all around.

The bottom line is that obesity, smoking, drinking alcohol, and doing recreational drugs pose a PROVEN EXTREME RISK for heart attack, stroke, or death, while TRT has PROVEN the exact opposite. The facts as shown in multiple studies have PROVEN this: Men with low T who are NOT being treated with TRT have TWICE the death rate overall as men with low T who ARE being treated with TRT.

In other words, TRT Saves Lives—so exactly what’s up with the medical community’s united and deadly anti-TRT campaign?