FAIR's Access Revoked by the AAP
For FAIR’s Substack, FAIR in Medicine Director Nikki Johnson describes her recent experience having her access revoked to the American Academy of Pediatrics national conference.
Twenty-seven years ago, I stood proudly in an auditorium with new medical students reciting the Hippocratic Oath and donning my white coat for the first time. On that day, I dedicated my life to serving humanity. I pledged to “practice medicine with conscience and dignity” and to “give respect and gratitude to my deserving teachers.” I vowed to “maintain the utmost respect for human life” and to never “use my knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity.”
The principles expressed in the mission of the American Academy of Pediatrics are in line with the words in the Hippocratic Oath. I have upheld my vow. I’m not so sure the members and leadership of the AAP have done the same.
The Institutionalization of Gender Identity in New York City Public Schools
For her Substack BROADVIEW, FAIR Advisor Lisa Selin Davis writes about the Gender and Family Project at the Ackerman Institute being used in New York City public schools.
It pains me that, all these years later, public (and private) schools are still pushing the affirmative model, which has been slowly crumbling under scrutiny. There is no good evidence that affirmation and social transition improve mental health. Heck, there’s no good evidence that there’s such a thing as gender identity. (In my presentation, I mostly avoid gender identity altogether, though it is designed to present to people who subscribe to the theory.) Many people believe in gender identity—a gendered soul, separate from the body—and I support their right to do so. I don’t support presenting beliefs as facts, and suppressing debate and other viewpoints.
The Lies That Liberals Teach | with Wilfred Reilly
FAIR Advisor and Political Scientist Wilfred Reilly joins Benjamin Boyce to discuss the current political landscape, and his latest book, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me.
We're Heading for Civilisational Collapse - Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt
FAIR Advisor Jonathan Haidt speaks with Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster on Triggernometry.
Matt Taibbi: How to Fight Back Against the Censors
For The Free Press, Matt Taibbi writes about free speech and America’s founding.
This is what censors never understand. Speech is free. Trying to stop it is like catching butterflies with a hammer, stopping a flood with a teaspoon. . . choose your metaphor, but it’s a fool’s errand. You can apply as many rules as you want, threaten punishment, lock people up. The human mind always sets its own course, often in spite of itself.
How Tim Walz got free speech very wrong at the Vice Presidential Debate
For his Substack The Eternally Radical Idea, Greg Lukianoff writes about how you can shout fire in a crowded theater.
Still, there’s even more context that makes this particular cliché irritating to encounter. Holmes’ Supreme Court opinion was one that upheld the imprisonment of two people who argued that military conscription was wrong. The Court justified the ban with Holmes’ dubious analogy, which was meant to tie back to the principle that the First Amendment doesn’t protect speech that incites people to physical violence.
But the Supreme Court abandoned the logic of that case in 1925, and rightly seeing that this line of thinking was being used to justify clearly unconstitutional censorship, outright overruled it in 1969. And yet, the cliché endures, even in the mouth and mind of a candidate for the nation’s second-highest office in 2024.
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Thank you for your courage. We appreciate you. You are speaking up. Surely any conscientious medical organization would want to hear concerns. The opioid crisis is hardly even behind us.. We must better understand what is not understood. It is so tricky to have a human rights' concept that has no scientific validity in the way of questioning harmful medical interventions. What happened to responsible medical ethics? Where are the responsible adults? Thank you. First do no harm. Your love and commitment to being responsible to children and families is kinder and more needed than ever. It is hard to be brave. It is lonely, being responsible and ethical, particularly in the case of young people who are in distress. Your work is highly needed today. You are a genuine human rights, human health and wellness ally. Thank you Dr. Johnson