Saturday, June 5, 2021

When Doctors Can't Speak

Here is a helpful critique by Bari Weiss:

I always thought that if you lived through a revolution it would be obvious to everyone. As it turns out, that’s not true. Revolutions can be bloodless, incremental and subtle. And they don’t require a strongman. They just require a sufficient number of well-positioned true believers and cowards, like those sitting in the C-suite of nearly every major institution in American life.

That’s one of the lessons I have learned over the past few years as the institutions that have upheld the liberal order — our publishing houses, our universities, our schools, our non-profits, our tech companies — have embraced a Manichean ideology that divides people by identity and punishes anyone that doesn’t adhere to every aspect of that orthodoxy.

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But if any area is more urgent, it is the world of medicine, where the ability to speak truthfully is quite literally a matter of life and death. Without being able to discuss reality and take intellectual risks, it’s impossible to get to the truth. No truth, no medical progress.

Source - https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-doctors-cant-speak

And as you may be aware, we have been fed lies by the highest echelons of Big Med and Big Pharma, who made it virtually impossible for front line doctors to properly and effectively treat COVID-19 infections. In my view, those responsible should be prosecuted and if warranted punished. Instead they're still collecting fact paychecks and running the show>

Update - 6/7/2021

Here is a somewhat related discussion:

https://jonathanturley.org/2021/06/06/the-dark-anniversary-of-the-self-censorship-of-the-new-york-times/

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