If you still think science can’t get “woke” (and croak), author and retired psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple (pen name Anthony Daniels) would ask you to consider the New England Journal of Medicine:
Daniels’s latest book, False Positive, brings a critical eye to one of the most important general medical journals in the world: The New England Journal of Medicine. Daniels exposes errors of reasoning and omissions apparently undetected by the Journal’s editors and shows how its pages have become mind-numbingly politically correct, with highly debatable arguments allowed to pass as if self-evidently true.
Theodore Dalrymple, “Theodore Dalrymple on Elite Medical Journals and the Criminal Underclass” at City Journal (June 26, 2019)
From the transcript of the podcast with City Journal:
Brian Anderson: I think our readers would be interested in the social commentary side. You would assume a journal of medicine is going to be focusing on medicine, but often it spilled over into a kind of political correctness.
Anthony Daniels: Yes, that’s true. There are lots of examples of that. For example, I mentioned a letter from the Netherlands about the glories of euthanasia in the Netherlands. And the author proudly stated that 92% of the 6,000 people who are euthanized, or encouraged to commit suicide by their doctors, 92% of them had serious medical conditions. Now, if I were editor of the New England Journal, I would say, ‘well, what about the other 8%? Let’s have a bit of clarification there.’
Brian Anderson: Right.
Anthony Daniels: But it wasn’t even a question. And I suspect– I can’t prove– it’s because of an approval, a desire to make euthanasia look good.
Here’s the publisher’s blurb for False Positive: A Year of Error, Omission, and Political Correctness in the New England Journal of Medicine:
Daniels’s latest book, False Positive, brings a critical eye to one of the most important general medical journals in the world: The New England Journal of Medicine. Daniels exposes errors of reasoning and omissions apparently undetected by the Journal’s editors and shows how its pages have become mind-numbingly politically correct, with highly debatable arguments allowed to pass as if self-evidently true.
Wokesters tend to think that a thing can only be true and important if it serves a political agenda. Because their political agenda is what makes things true and important. They aren’t at war with society; they are at war with reality. – O’Leary for News
Dalrymple, incidentally, is Ken Francis’s co-author, of The Terror of Existence: From Ecclesiastes to Theatre of the Absurd. Francis sends us many fine news tips, for which, thanks.
See also: New England Journal Of Medicine, seeking new editor, urged to get woke.
and
Lancet: Why has a historic medical publication gone weird?