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The Hijacking of Pediatric Medicine

The Free Press

This long-form piece details what has happened inside the AAP, the nation’s leading organization of pediatricians. It is a stunning, frightening expose covering everything from politically-driven school closure recommendations, support for mask mandates ignoring harms to child development, conflict-of-interest vaccine promotion, stifling of internal dissent, and ignoring vaccine-induced myocarditis risk to support for “gender-affirming care” (puberty blockers, hormones) for minors without parental knowledge or consent. The story “shows how a small group of doctors with virtually unaccountable power can exert tremendous influence over public policy… At stake in all this… is not just lockdowns or puberty blockers but the credibility of the medical establishment itself.”

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An accelerator physicist reaches his breaking point

Heterodox STEM

A 63-year-old accelerator physicist, naturalized Japanese citizen and former Canadian citizen writes a scathing letter to the Elsevier academic publishing company after being asking to review a paper adhering to inclusion, diversity and equity (IDE) policies—”It has no business asking us to do anything besides reviewing the scientific quality of a submission irrespective of the race, gender, sexual orientation, age or civil status (incarcerated or not). I absolutely refuse to care about such things… It is time to grow a pair and fight for reason and the scientific method.”

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Was the Great Harvard Scientist E. O. Wilson a Racist?

Skeptic

“Because Wilson corresponded with the notorious race differences psychologist Phillippe Rushton, critics claim it proves Wilson was a racist. Here’s why the critics are wrong, dangerously wrong,” argues FAIR Advisor Michael Shermer.

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Stanford Engineering’s DEI Bureaucracy

Stanford Review

In Stanford Review’s first Woke Watch piece, St Johns writes a scathing report. “Let’s be honest: diversity is a cover. The real goal…is to politicize what should be one of the most concrete and objective disciplines: engineering.”

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