![]() ![]() “Whole research areas are off-limits,” he said, adding that some of what is being published in the nation’s top journals is “shoddy as hell.” “In health care, innovation depends on open, objective inquiry into complex problems, but that’s now undermined by this simplistic and racialized worldview where racism is seen as the cause of all disparities, despite robust data showing it’s not that simple.” ![]() “Wokeness feels like an existential threat,” a doctor from the Northwest said. I’ll give two examples, one of which doesn’t show research as being off-limits, really, but showing criticism of presumably weak research being off limits. This, claims Herzog, has led to doctors being reluctant to criticize others for being late, for criticizing wokeness and-in my view, the worst violation-”whole research areas being seen as off limits”. These have to be addressed.īut the object of the current fracas is what’s seen as “ongoing systemic racism” in medicine. Herzog readily avers that there are inequities in medicine, many stemming from racism in the past that has led Hispanics and blacks to be unable to afford good medical care or to be shunted to ineffective adyts of the system. Herzog’s piece, below, discusses the kind of wokeness in medicine that is either potentially injurious to people or makes doctors keep their mouths shut when they shouldn’t. Weiss seems to have been farming out the writing part of her site to others (Katie Herzog in this case) and concentrating on podcasting, a genre I don’t listen to. ![]() Here’s another read for you, this time from Bari Weiss’s Substack column. ![]()
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