The New Dark Age

The Adolescent Health Study will ask teenagers about their mental health, their families and their sexual experiences, and link the answers to their school, health and tax records. It will make them promises. The people building it have already broken promises of exactly this kind – to Scottish schoolchildren, to Biobank volunteers, and to 55 million NHS patients – and consequences have never reached the shared culture behind all three projects. The children being asked about adolescence in 2027 are the ones the ONS will ask to fill in a census in 2031 and surveys for the rest of the century.

The same people. The person now leading AHS came to it from UK Biobank via HDR UK, where she co-authored the preprint on a project that trained an AI on 55 million patients’ records shared for Covid purposes only. HDRUK told the Information Commissioner it made no decisions about that access. Its own preprint says otherwise.

In far too much detail, we go through what the AHS is, and why the contradictions in the preprint matter to the data when teenagers and members of the House of Lords answer questions about their sexual experiences, and all other aspects of their lives.

You can read the whole thing at medConfidential.org

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