Intelegence is a combination of "wisdom and common sense" this is sadly lacking in today's leaders worldwide. We urgently need valued old good principles and common sense back into goverment and medicine.
It seems that for many people this woke attitude has actually made them more racist. I recognize that in others who previously have been hard line liberal, equality oriented thinkers now affected by this woke-ism, antifa, and BLM violent riots turning away from their beliefs and becoming racist. Minorities do themselves a great disfavor abandoning integration and cooperation in favor of burning, looting, rioting, demanding "reparations" for sins of the father, separatism, and reverse discrimination.
No matter the justifications, this revelation about research and medicine should be extraordinarily concerning to everyone. We must value an openness to true results in science even and especially if those results disagree with our hypothesis. This must be valued above all. And this must be communicated. We were moving further and further towards that ideal when Covid suddenly justified dishonesty, agendas, and self-righteousness. Much of this was motivated by hatred of one man. How dare scientists allow hatred to abandon pursuit of truth
I apologize for commenting on the aforementioned article here, but there is no opportunity for comment on the piece about California's mandated ethnic studies.
FAIR's response is precious. Of course we are against censorship, but should that apply to what FAIR describes as negative and divisive -- and likely anti-white -- narratives presented to young children as fact, when there is no inclusion of opposing views, and no opposing views in the curricula? No challenge to classic ideological indoctrination? What's with the raised fists in the banner? How disheartening.
This is terrifying. Any ER resident or other physician or health-care worker who expressly refuses to treat a white patient strictly because of their race (not even anything racist or otherwise offensive they have uttered), should be immediately stripped of their professional credentials and barred from the practice of medicine. Period, full stop. People are going to die because of this nonsense.
- re: retraction of Dr. Wang published paper in JAHA, one of only 2 ever retracted and the other one was due to the fact that the published paper was erroneous, "London cited no specific errors in Wang’s paper in his statement, just that publishing it was antithetical to his and the journal’s values." I hope he wins his case against Pitt.
- An emergency room provider, "‘I’m not going to go treat that white guy, I'm going to treat the person of color instead because whatever happened to the white guy, he probably deserves it.’”
- Perhaps even more chilling than the ER provider: "Harold Schmidt, prof. of medical ethics & health policy at the U. of Penn. told the NYT, “Older populations are whiter. Society is structured in a way that enables them to live longer. Instead of giving additional health benefits to those who already had more of them, we can start to level the playing field a bit.”" This apparently went unchallenged by the NYT!
Thank you Bari Weiss for being an incredibly brave and honorable person. You are a treasure to this nation. And Katie Herzog too... :)
Ever wonder why there are so many hospitals called "Beth Israel" or "Jewish Hospital XX"? Its because for decades, hospitals would not employ Jewish doctors. It went away, and you don't hear Jewish doctors today whining that 60 years ago they wouldn't have been allowed to practice in the hospitals where they are now.
MCAT scores of blacks are consistently low. How do patients benefit from doctors who perform below their peers?
I wonder if Katie will feel bold enough to tell us if she believes lesbians have penises, or if she will continue to collaborate with the exact same forces about whom she's raising alarm here.
"there’s going to be a counter-reaction that's going to be huge and vicious and ugly."
Good: a huge, vicious, ugly counter-reaction is exactly what's needed against a huge, vicious, ugly woke movement that is actively trying to make Americans treat each other differently on the basis of skin color (and religion if they're also Jewish).
Without a counter-reaction we can soon expect what might be called the San Francisco Racial Laws.
If you think this insanity is limited to the medical profession, take a look at the nonsense coming from the legal profession. Both professions that once honored facts and experience in thrall to a theory of "social justice" that is completely unmoored from reality.
The current, unchallengeable, claim is that medicine in the US is plagued with systemic racism. The literature supporting the claim is as bad as it can be, there are no papers contradicting it for obvious reasons (explained in Herzog’s piece).
Let Granny die because she's white, try to educate white children to be ashamed of themselves while educating black kids that they are all victims of the dominant culture and have a "bounty" on their heads. Could there be a better way to force people into warring enclaves separated by race? That is not a bug it's a feature and reveals the true goals of the promoters of this pernicious ideology. CRT dies or the USA, as we know it, does.
Sadly, stories like this make me less likely to want to be treated by a non-white doctor. I want my doctors to get their degrees because they earned them without regard for their race or gender. I want treatment from someone who learned from criticism and full-on mentoring, not someone who was treated with kid gloves for fear of being charged with discrimination. Does no one see the damage this approach does to the reputations of professionals of color?
Amen. And people will decry you for being "racist" if you say so. But we all know full well people are being admitted to med training and passed along based on their race despite being underqualified.
When my son was a pre-med a few years ago, one of his black comrades, a completely excellent person and student, was quite frank one day in a group setting when he stated that he didn't need to worry about the MCAT, because he knew he would be admitted to med school regardless of his scores, because of racist favoritism. This is an almost insurmountable advantage over other applicants. He was assuredly NOT gloating or bragging--just stating the truth, and his classmates appreciated his honesty.
Thank you The Free Press and giants like Dr Robert Malone and Dr Peter McCullough
Intelegence is a combination of "wisdom and common sense" this is sadly lacking in today's leaders worldwide. We urgently need valued old good principles and common sense back into goverment and medicine.
I wonder what would have happened if all the young Dr. Wokes at U of M had been aborted....
It seems that for many people this woke attitude has actually made them more racist. I recognize that in others who previously have been hard line liberal, equality oriented thinkers now affected by this woke-ism, antifa, and BLM violent riots turning away from their beliefs and becoming racist. Minorities do themselves a great disfavor abandoning integration and cooperation in favor of burning, looting, rioting, demanding "reparations" for sins of the father, separatism, and reverse discrimination.
No matter the justifications, this revelation about research and medicine should be extraordinarily concerning to everyone. We must value an openness to true results in science even and especially if those results disagree with our hypothesis. This must be valued above all. And this must be communicated. We were moving further and further towards that ideal when Covid suddenly justified dishonesty, agendas, and self-righteousness. Much of this was motivated by hatred of one man. How dare scientists allow hatred to abandon pursuit of truth
I apologize for commenting on the aforementioned article here, but there is no opportunity for comment on the piece about California's mandated ethnic studies.
FAIR's response is precious. Of course we are against censorship, but should that apply to what FAIR describes as negative and divisive -- and likely anti-white -- narratives presented to young children as fact, when there is no inclusion of opposing views, and no opposing views in the curricula? No challenge to classic ideological indoctrination? What's with the raised fists in the banner? How disheartening.
This is terrifying. Any ER resident or other physician or health-care worker who expressly refuses to treat a white patient strictly because of their race (not even anything racist or otherwise offensive they have uttered), should be immediately stripped of their professional credentials and barred from the practice of medicine. Period, full stop. People are going to die because of this nonsense.
Another good article. Keep it up.
Beyond Chilling:
- re: retraction of Dr. Wang published paper in JAHA, one of only 2 ever retracted and the other one was due to the fact that the published paper was erroneous, "London cited no specific errors in Wang’s paper in his statement, just that publishing it was antithetical to his and the journal’s values." I hope he wins his case against Pitt.
- An emergency room provider, "‘I’m not going to go treat that white guy, I'm going to treat the person of color instead because whatever happened to the white guy, he probably deserves it.’”
- Perhaps even more chilling than the ER provider: "Harold Schmidt, prof. of medical ethics & health policy at the U. of Penn. told the NYT, “Older populations are whiter. Society is structured in a way that enables them to live longer. Instead of giving additional health benefits to those who already had more of them, we can start to level the playing field a bit.”" This apparently went unchallenged by the NYT!
Thank you Bari Weiss for being an incredibly brave and honorable person. You are a treasure to this nation. And Katie Herzog too... :)
Ever wonder why there are so many hospitals called "Beth Israel" or "Jewish Hospital XX"? Its because for decades, hospitals would not employ Jewish doctors. It went away, and you don't hear Jewish doctors today whining that 60 years ago they wouldn't have been allowed to practice in the hospitals where they are now.
MCAT scores of blacks are consistently low. How do patients benefit from doctors who perform below their peers?
This is a scandal.
I wonder if Katie will feel bold enough to tell us if she believes lesbians have penises, or if she will continue to collaborate with the exact same forces about whom she's raising alarm here.
"there’s going to be a counter-reaction that's going to be huge and vicious and ugly."
Good: a huge, vicious, ugly counter-reaction is exactly what's needed against a huge, vicious, ugly woke movement that is actively trying to make Americans treat each other differently on the basis of skin color (and religion if they're also Jewish).
Without a counter-reaction we can soon expect what might be called the San Francisco Racial Laws.
If you think this insanity is limited to the medical profession, take a look at the nonsense coming from the legal profession. Both professions that once honored facts and experience in thrall to a theory of "social justice" that is completely unmoored from reality.
Systemic bias in medicine and systemic racism in medicine are two very different concepts.
The current, unchallengeable, claim is that medicine in the US is plagued with systemic racism. The literature supporting the claim is as bad as it can be, there are no papers contradicting it for obvious reasons (explained in Herzog’s piece).
Let Granny die because she's white, try to educate white children to be ashamed of themselves while educating black kids that they are all victims of the dominant culture and have a "bounty" on their heads. Could there be a better way to force people into warring enclaves separated by race? That is not a bug it's a feature and reveals the true goals of the promoters of this pernicious ideology. CRT dies or the USA, as we know it, does.
Sadly, stories like this make me less likely to want to be treated by a non-white doctor. I want my doctors to get their degrees because they earned them without regard for their race or gender. I want treatment from someone who learned from criticism and full-on mentoring, not someone who was treated with kid gloves for fear of being charged with discrimination. Does no one see the damage this approach does to the reputations of professionals of color?
Amen. And people will decry you for being "racist" if you say so. But we all know full well people are being admitted to med training and passed along based on their race despite being underqualified.
When my son was a pre-med a few years ago, one of his black comrades, a completely excellent person and student, was quite frank one day in a group setting when he stated that he didn't need to worry about the MCAT, because he knew he would be admitted to med school regardless of his scores, because of racist favoritism. This is an almost insurmountable advantage over other applicants. He was assuredly NOT gloating or bragging--just stating the truth, and his classmates appreciated his honesty.