The Indiana University School of Medicine is Under Investigation for Racial Discrimination

The Indiana University School of Medicine is having to account for its violations of students’ civil rights.

Earlier this year, an official complaint was filed with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) regarding IUSM’s Underrepresented in Medicine Visiting Elective – a program that illegally discriminates on the bases of race and sex. As a result of the complaint, filed by Do No Harm senior fellow Mark Perry, a federal civil rights investigation vs. IUSM has been opened by the Chicago OCR.

Eligibility criteria require applicants to “identify as one or more of the following diversity categories: Black/African American, Hispanic Latinx, LGBTQ+.” This is a violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibit such discrimination.

Figure 1. Indiana University SOM Underrepresented in Medicine Visiting Elective Program eligibility criteria.

The program, sponsored by IUSM’s Faculty Affairs, Professional Development, and Diversity initiative, offers a $2,000 stipend to out-of-state visiting students, plus “compensation upon successful completion of the rotation.”

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We Found Out How Woke the University of Arizona College of Medicine Really Is

Just how woke is the University of Arizona College of Medicine? Very woke indeed, as it just confirmed to Do No Harm.

Here’s the background. In October 2022, the Association of American Medical Colleges released a report showing that the vast majority of medical schools have embraced identity politics, despite their divisive and even discriminatory nature. The report was based on surveys of specific medical schools, which the AAMC didn’t name.

For the sake of transparency and accountability, Do No Harm submitted freedom of information requests to public medical schools nationwide, including the University of Arizona College of Medicine (UACOM). We asked for a copy of its survey response, so that Arizona taxpayers and policymakers could learn the truth about this institution.

Here’s what UACOM has self-reported:

  • It has adopted racially discriminatory admissions practices under the guise of “affirmative action.” This means it’s potentially lowering standards in the name of diversity, thereby threatening patient health.
  • It has a “dedicated office, staff, or resources” dedicated to DEI. This means there’s a permanent woke bureaucracy pushing ideology on faculty and students.
  • It lobbies for woke policies at the federal, state, and/or local levels. This means it’s wading into toxic public debates instead of fully focusing on educating future physicians.
  • Its administrators are active within local, regional, and national forums to promote equity, diversity, and inclusion. This means it’s wasting resources that would be better spent on real medical education.

All told, the University of Arizona College of Medicine has instituted 95.5% of the divisive and discriminatory woke policies listed by the AAMC. And you can bet it is feeling pressure from activists and outside groups to go even further down the radical rabbit hole – doing even more damage to faculty, medical students, and ultimately, the millions of patients they’ll see.

University of Arizona DICE Inventory overall score.

Arizona taxpayers help fund UACOM. They, and the policymakers who represent them, should ask why they’re giving so much money to an institution that’s putting divisive and discriminatory ideology at the heart of medical education. More importantly, they should ensure UACOM stops, and soon.

We Found Out How Woke The Central Michigan University College of Medicine Really Is

Just how woke is The Central Michigan University College of Medicine? Very woke indeed, as it just confirmed to Do No Harm.

Here’s the background. In October 2022, the Association of American Medical Colleges released a report showing that the vast majority of medical schools have embraced identity politics, despite their divisive and even discriminatory nature. The report was based on surveys of specific medical schools, which the AAMC didn’t name.

For the sake of transparency and accountability, Do No Harm submitted freedom of information requests to public medical schools nationwide, including the CMU College of Medicine. We asked for a copy of its survey response, so that Michigan taxpayers and policymakers could learn the truth about this institution.

Here’s what the College of Medicine has self-reported:

  • It has adopted racially discriminatory admissions practices under the guise of “affirmative action.” This means it’s potentially lowering standards in the name of diversity, thereby threatening patient health.
  • It has a “dedicated office, staff, or resources” dedicated to DEI. This means there’s a permanent woke bureaucracy pushing ideology on faculty and students.
  • Its administrators are active within local, regional, and national forums to promote equity, diversity, and inclusion. This means it’s wasting resources that would be better spent on real medical education.

All told, the CMU College of Medicine has instituted 75.9% of the divisive and discriminatory woke policies listed by the AAMC. And you can bet it is feeling pressure from activists and outside groups to go even further down the radical rabbit hole – doing even more damage to faculty, medical students, and ultimately, the millions of patients they’ll see.

DICE Inventory score for Central Michigan University College of Medicine.

Michigan taxpayers help fund this institution. They, and the policymakers who represent them, should ask why they’re giving so much money to an institution that’s putting divisive and discriminatory ideology at the heart of medical education. More importantly, they should ensure The Central Michigan University College of Medicine stops, and soon.

We Found Out How Woke The Ohio State College of Medicine Really Is

Just how woke is The Ohio State College of Medicine? Very woke indeed, as it just confirmed to Do No Harm.

Here’s the background. In October 2022, the Association of American Medical Colleges released a report showing that the vast majority of medical schools have embraced identity politics, despite their divisive and even discriminatory nature. The report was based on surveys of specific medical schools, which the AAMC didn’t name.

For the sake of transparency and accountability, Do No Harm submitted freedom of information requests to public medical schools nationwide, including The Ohio State College of Medicine. We asked for a copy of its survey response, so that Ohio taxpayers and policymakers could learn the truth about this institution.

Here’s what The Ohio State College of Medicine has self-reported:

  • It has adopted racially discriminatory admissions practices under the guise of “affirmative action.” This means it’s potentially lowering standards in the name of diversity, thereby threatening patient health.
  • It has a “dedicated office, staff, or resources” dedicated to DEI. This means there’s a permanent woke bureaucracy pushing ideology on faculty and students.
  • It lobbies for woke policies at the federal, state, and/or local levels. This means it’s wading into toxic public debates instead of fully focusing on educating future physicians.
  • It offers tenure and promotion to faculty who prove their commitment to extreme identity politics and woke priorities. This is a litmus test that requires faculty to toe the party line instead of teaching medicine at the highest level.
  • Its administrators are active within local, regional, and national forums to promote equity, diversity, and inclusion. This means it’s wasting resources that would be better spent on real medical education.

All told, The Ohio State College of Medicine has instituted 93.3% of the divisive and discriminatory woke policies listed by the AAMC. And you can bet it is feeling pressure from activists and outside groups to go even further down the radical rabbit hole – doing even more damage to faculty, medical students, and ultimately, the millions of patients they’ll see.

Figure 1. DICE Inventory overall score for The Ohio State University.

Ohio taxpayers help fund this institution. They, and the policymakers who represent them, should ask why they’re giving so much money to an institution that’s putting divisive and discriminatory ideology at the heart of medical education. More importantly, they should ensure The Ohio State College of Medicine stops, and soon.

We Found Out How Woke The University of Minnesota Medical School Really Is

Just how woke is The University of Minnesota Medical School? Very woke indeed, as it just confirmed to Do No Harm.

Here’s the background. In October 2022, the Association of American Medical Colleges released a report showing that the vast majority of medical schools have embraced identity politics, despite their divisive and even discriminatory nature. The report was based on surveys of specific medical schools, which the AAMC didn’t name.

For the sake of transparency and accountability, Do No Harm submitted freedom of information requests to public medical schools nationwide, including The University of Minnesota Medical School. We asked for a copy of its survey response, so that Minnesota taxpayers and policymakers could learn the truth about this institution.

Here’s what the University of Minnesota Medical School has self-reported:

  • It has adopted racially discriminatory admissions practices under the guise of “affirmative action.” This means it’s potentially lowering standards in the name of diversity, thereby threatening patient health.
  • It has a “dedicated office, staff, or resources” dedicated to DEI. This means there’s a permanent woke bureaucracy pushing ideology on faculty and students.
  • It lobbies for woke policies at the federal, state, and/or local levels. This means it’s wading into toxic public debates instead of fully focusing on educating future physicians.
  • It offers tenure and promotion to faculty who prove their commitment to extreme identity politics and woke priorities. This is a litmus test that requires faculty to toe the party line instead of teaching medicine at the highest level.
  • Its administrators areactive within local, regional, and national forumsto promote equity, diversity, and inclusion. This means it’s wasting resources that would be better spent on real medical education.

All told, The University of Minnesota Medical School has instituted 94.4% of the divisive and discriminatory woke policies listed by the AAMC. And you can bet it is feeling pressure from activists and outside groups to go even further down the radical rabbit hole – doing even more damage to faculty, medical students, and ultimately, the millions of patients they’ll see.

Figure 1. University of Minnesota Medical School DICE Inventory overall score.

Minnesota taxpayers help fund this school. They, and the policymakers who represent them, should ask why they’re giving so much money to an institution that’s putting divisive and discriminatory ideology at the heart of medical education. More importantly, they should ensure The University of Minnesota Medical School stops, and soon.

We Found Out How Woke The Marshall University School of Medicine Really Is

Just how woke is West Virginia’s Marshall University School of Medicine? Very woke indeed, as it just confirmed to Do No Harm.

Here’s the background. In October 2022, the Association of American Medical Colleges released a report showing that the vast majority of medical schools have embraced identity politics, despite their divisive and even discriminatory nature. The report was based on surveys of specific medical schools, which the AAMC didn’t name.

For the sake of transparency and accountability, Do No Harm submitted freedom of information requests to public medical schools nationwide, including the Marshall University School of Medicine. We asked for a copy of its survey response, so that West Virginia taxpayers and policymakers could learn the truth about this institution.

Here’s what the Marshall University School of Medicine has self-reported:

  • It has adopted racially discriminatory admissions practices under the guise of “affirmative action.” This means it’s potentially lowering standards in the name of diversity, thereby threatening patient health.
  • It has a “dedicated office, staff, or resources” dedicated to DEI. This means there’s a permanent woke bureaucracy pushing ideology on faculty and students.
  • It lobbies for woke policies at the federal, state, and/or local levels. This means it’s wading into toxic public debates instead of fully focusing on educating future physicians.
  • Its administrators areactive within local, regional, and national forumsto promote equity, diversity, and inclusion. This means it’s wasting resources that would be better spent on real medical education.

All told, The Marshall University School of Medicine has instituted 83% of the divisive and discriminatory woke policies listed by the AAMC. And you can bet it is feeling pressure from activists and outside groups to go even further down the radical rabbit hole – doing even more damage to faculty, medical students, and ultimately, the millions of patients they’ll see.

Figure 1. From DICE Inventory Report for Marshall University.

West Virginia taxpayers help fund this medical school. They, and the policymakers who represent them, should ask why they’re giving so much money to an institution that’s putting divisive and discriminatory ideology at the heart of medical education. More importantly, they should ensure the Marshall University School of Medicine stops, and soon.

UNM: No Non-Woke Residents Allowed

What should a medical school look for in residents? At the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, the answer in the OB/GYN department is adherence to radical identity politics. Yet another medical school is putting ideology ahead of quality and merit when it comes to future physicians.

Do No Harm obtained a copy of a document titled, “OB/Gyn Residency Interview Scoring 2021-2022”, and it appears to be the grading rubric that UNM requires attending physicians to use when evaluating potential residents.

The second section of the document covers “Contributions to the OB/GYN Workforce,” yet it primarily examines how diverse the resident is. If they are African American, Latinx, or Native American, they get extra points. Ditto if they have “other intersection/identity including LGBTQIA+.” The rubric clearly states that evaluators should “consider this heavily,” even though it has no bearing on a resident’s ability to provide the best medical care.

Another section is focused on “Equity, Anti-Racist practices, [and] Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging.” It examines whether residents have proven loyal to these concepts, including the work they have done in community groups or on government policy. That’s right: It wants residents who are politically active.

The rubric suggests specific questions that evaluators could ask residents. The list includes: “What does it mean for you to have a commitment to health equity?  How do you see yourself demonstrating that commitment here?” Or: “How do you hope to integrate anti-racism in your residency and beyond?”  Once again, evaluators are instructed to “consider this heavily.”

The University of New Mexico appears to be forcing attending physicians to focus on identity politics, not individual quality. The interview outline focuses on rewarding residents who may not be the best qualified. If so, it’s threatening the health and well-being of the countless patients those residents will treat when they enter the workforce.

Here’s hoping taxpayers and policymakers in New Mexico pay attention to what UNM is doing – and more importantly, what it’s not doing.

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Medical Schools Are More Woke Than You Think

Just how woke is the average American medical school? Extremely woke – and apparently not woke enough.

So says the Association of American Medical Colleges, which recently surveyed 101 medical schools, representing almost two-thirds of the medical schools in the U.S. It looked at 89 specific “diversity, equity, and inclusion” policies that it wants to see at these institutions. DEI is usually code for divisive identity politics and even racially discriminatory practices.

The topline findings are frightening. More than six out of 10 medical schools have implemented at least 80% of these policies. No medical school has implemented less than 50%. In other words, the average American medical school is doing at least half of the things that woke activists demand.

Figure 1. AAMC Twitter post from Nov. 10, 2022.

Our chairman, Dr. Stan Goldfarb, lays out facts in a New York Post op-ed. Here are some of the most concerning findings:

  • Discriminatory Recruiting: 100% of the schools “have admissions policies and practices for encouraging a diverse class of students.” In other words, they’re practicing affirmative action, which requires discriminating on the basis of race.
Figure 2. The Power of Collective Action: Assessing and Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts at AAMC Medical Schools, pg. 14.
  • Political Advocacy: 75% of medical schools “advocate for policies and/or legislation at a local, state, or federal level related to its diversity, inclusion, and equity mission.” In other words, they’re wading into divisive public policy debates instead of focusing fully on their mission of teaching medicine.
  • Politicized Leadership: 99% of medical schools have “institutional leaders [who are] active within local, regional, and national forums to promote equity, diversity, and inclusion.” In other words, their leadership is setting a tone that medical education should be politicized.
  • Woke Bureaucracies: 97% ofmedical schoolshave “a dedicated office, staff, and resources” for DEI. In other words, there’s a permanent bureaucracy at most medical schools pushing woke ideology on faculty and students alike. 
  • Faculty Litmus Tests: 43% of medical schools “have promotion and tenure policies that specifically reward faculty scholarship and service on DEI topics.” In other words, they are only hiring professors who hold specific and divisive political views.
Figure 3. The Power of Collective Action: Assessing and Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts at AAMC Medical Schools, pg. 30.
  • Wasting Money: 85% of schools have “taken action to modify communications, branding, icons, or displays” to better reflect DEI goals, etc. In other words, they’re spending money on proving their woke bona fides instead of educating future physicians.

Most concerning: the AAMC is pushing 100% of medical schools to score 100% in each category. That goal is closer than anyone realized.

Figure 4. The Power of Collective Action: Assessing and Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts at AAMC Medical Schools, pg. 49.

While the supposed justification for all of this is improving health, there’s no evidence that any of these measures will make a difference for patients. In fact, the opposite is likely to happen: The woke capture of medical education will lead to worse health outcomes for patients.

This doesn’t bode well for the future of health care. Medical schools are broadly lowering standards for admissions, faculty and research while devoting a higher share of resources to political lobbying, politicized bureaucracy and public virtue signaling.

Stanley Goldfarb, MD

Dr. Goldfarb makes clear the stakes: “This doesn’t bode well for the future of health care. Medical schools are broadly lowering standards for admissions, faculty and research while devoting a higher share of resources to political lobbying, politicized bureaucracy and public virtue signaling.”

America needs to wake up to the fact that medical schools are woke. Students, professors, taxpayers, and policymakers should be looking for steps to stop this trend – and save medical schools from being fully and irreversibly politicized. The health and well-being of every American depends on it.

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S1E3: Medical Students and Woke Medicine

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In our third episode, Benita Cotton-Orr and Dr. Stanley Goldfarb discuss how we can help medical students recognize, understand, and push back against the woke pedagogy that has infiltrated our medical schools.

The Office for Civil Rights is Investigating the Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine

In response to a federal civil rights complaint filed by Do No Harm Senior Fellow Mark Perry, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) for eight different racially discriminatory programs. These programs illegally discriminate on the basis of race and/or sex, which is prohibited by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.

The Washington, DC Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation of the following MUSC offerings, which “[provide] support to Black/African American, Native American, Hispanic, and Pacific Islander students”:

Figure 1. MUSC College of Medicine (https://medicine.musc.edu/diversity/students/visiting-students)

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Is Your Family Physician Going Woke?

Forget medicine. The American Academy of Family Physicians wants its members to practice divisive and discriminatory ideology. That’s the takeaway from the AAFP’s September 20-23, 2022, Congress of Medical Delegates and Family Medical Experience in Washington, DC, which are the association’s primary annual events.

A tipster who was in attendance showed us what went down. To start, the AAFP held at least 10 sessions and panels focused on woke concepts – everything from “medical microaggressions” to “structural racism in medicine.” One session made clear that that family physicians should be political activists. It was titled, “Let’s Get in Formation: Physician Advocacy in Action.”

Another session, titled “Advocating for Anti-racist Medicine in Practice,” encouraged participants to identify goals “to dismantle structural racism in your organization.” Sample slides from the presentation are shown here.

As a reminder, anti-racism is grounded in the idea that racial discrimination is justified to right past wrongs. That’s deeply concerning, since the session also said that family physicians should “create a plan to integrate anti-racist best practices into your clinical care and health systems.”

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What does this mean in real life? To start, it involves family physicians focusing on their patients’ race instead of just their individual medical needs. It then leads to decision-making based on skin color. For instance, anti-racism is being used to justify giving patients of some races preferential access to care. Yet that means pushing people of different races to the back of the line. Such discrimination has no place in health care.

Other points from this presentation claim that racism, not genetics, has an impact on premature death.

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The same session also pushes doctors to take the so-called “implicit association test,” which has been thoroughly discredited. Even the test’s creators now acknowledge its shortcomings. These facts notwithstanding, the AAFP is essentially telling its members to falsely admit they’re racist, then employ actually racist policies within their medical practices.

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The American Academy of Family Physicians is not well. All its members should question why they belong to an organization that’s elevating ideology over medicine. And every family should worry about what their family physician is being told to do.

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Medical Educators Are Becoming Lobbyists

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We’ve warned patients and policymakers that medical schools are wading into divisive policy debates. According to a recent report, 75% of medical schools advocate for woke “policies and/or legislation at a local, state, or federal level.” Now we have details on which policies, exactly, some of these medical schools are focused on.

A growing number of medical educators are testifying against policies that wisely restrict so-called “gender-affirming care” for children. These policies try to protect vulnerable and young children from profoundly life-altering and largely irreversible surgeries and treatments. Yet this common-sense approach is unacceptable for the ideologues who run virtually every medical school, which explains why so many medical educators are trying to stop these policies.

For instance, after Alabama restricted this potentially harmful medical practice, no fewer than 8 medical educators filed a legal brief seeking to reinstate care that could harm children. Six of the signers came from the Yale School of Medicine. Similarly, when Arkansas passed a bill protecting children, a professor of pediatrics from the Duke University School of Medicine testified in a trial, seeking to overturn the state’s policy.

Plenty of other medical educators are wading into the fray. One from the UPenn Perelman School of Medicine has publicly opposed the pro-protecting-children policies that six states and counting have introduced. So has a professor at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

The list goes on, and in each case, these educators attempt to cite evidence to support their position. Yet as scholars like Leor Sapir have shown, the medical literature presents a much less favorable and more complicated conclusion. In fact, the evidence against so-called “gender-affirming care” is so strong that many European countries, including the United Kingdom, are moving away from it.

You won’t hear these facts from the American medical schools that are pushing for extreme policies. Instead, they’re turning their professors and educators into full-time political activists and lobbyists. They should spend more time teaching medical students to care for patients – and less time promoting harmful policies that could hurt patients, especially vulnerable children.

OB/GYN’s Are Eating Their Own

The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology has an official party line – and it’s as ideological as you’d expect. We recently came across the association’s “Statement Regarding Misinformation and Disinformation” on their website. Not only is it insulting and unfair to the OB/GYNs the group represents, but it also ignores the lessons of history in the OB/GYN community.

ABOG, as the board is called, wants OB/GYNs to practice “fact-based scientific data.” Yet its statement on misinformation goes far beyond science to matters of opinion and areas that deserve research. 

ABOG all but states that there’s a single acceptable view on “COVID-19, reproductive health care, contraception, abortion, and other OB GYN practices.” If OB/GYNs fail to promote that view to their patients, then ABOG threatens to “review reports” about them. 

The consequences are clear: “Eligibility to gain or maintain ABOG certification may be lost” if an OB/GYN doesn’t toe the party line.

Do No Harm doesn’t take positions on these issues. Yet we do believe that free speech and open discourse are essential to treating patients and finding medical breakthroughs. The way to clarify best clinical approaches is to encourage rigorous testing of ideas, not authoritarian pronouncements. Non-traditional ideas can be a powerful engine of medical advances. By trying to stifle debate on issues, ABOG is putting politics ahead of progress. Patients suffer when physicians are silenced.

The group representing OB/GYN’s should know better. One of the most famous physicians in history was Ignaz Semmelweis, a nineteenth century innovator who discovered that OB/GYN’s could dramatically improve maternal health by simply washing their hands. Yet his early insight on disinfectants was rejected by the medical establishment, which cast out Semmelweis. He was committed to an asylum and quickly died. Yet he was right – and the medical establishment was wrong.

The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology is following this same, sad path. Who might the modern-day Semmelweis be in the OB/GYN community? And what life-saving breakthroughs are mothers and children missing out on because ABOG is stifling debate in the name of politics?

The University of Missouri’s Med School Diversity Bender

The University of Missouri School of Medicine has a strange strategy for ensuring “diversity.” Like virtually all medical schools, it’s fully committed to a divisive woke agenda. But it also recently spent nearly $40,000 on parties and swag under the guise of recruiting minority students. Who knew that woke medical education was so much fun on the taxpayer dime?

We discovered this bizarre situation after the University responded to our recent freedom of information request. We requested all invoices paid for or by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion in the School of Medicine, from January 2021 to the present, among other things. We didn’t expect what the University sent us.

When we say swag, we aren’t joking. The medical school literally used that word to categorize an $8,550 payment to the Student National Medical Association, where it set up a recruiting booth. It spent another $2,096 on “swag” for “D&I,” a reference to diversity and inclusion at a similar recruitment event.

Another payment to the Student National Medical Association was for the “spring mix,” as in a party. That one cost $2,142.13. And the medical school spent $1,337 on a diversity-focused tailgate – their word, not ours.

The list goes on, with recruitment receptions and celebrations. Not all the charges are apparently party-related, like the $3,050 registration for the “National Conference for Community and Justice of Metropolitan St. Louis,” which is fully bought into the idea that physicians are biased based on skin color. Separately, we’ve found that Missouri’s School of Medicine has multiple racially discriminatory scholarships. We’ve filed federal civil rights complaints to root out this discrimination.

Taxpayers fund a significant part of the Mizzou School of Medicine. They – and the state’s lawmakers – should be asking why they’re forking over so much money to an institution that parties hard in the name of “diversity.”

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The Kentucky Board of Nursing Hides Its Bias

We were the first to call out Kentucky for forcing every nurse to take insulting woke training. Now the Kentucky Board of Nursing is trying to cover up its actions, even though it hasn’t actually changed. Either it’s afraid, or it knows what it’s doing is wrong. Either way, the state’s nurses and citizens need answers.

Here’s the backstory. Earlier this year, the Kentucky Board of Nursing mandated that all nurses take training on so-called “implicit bias.” Implicit bias testing is a discredited concept that accuses people of being racist based on their skin color. Yet woke activists demand it because it spreads the falsehoods they want everyone to believe.

The Board went even further by recommending the course provided by the Kentucky Nurses Association. The course is a master class in divisive and discriminatory propaganda. It tells nurses that “implicit bias kills,” and that white privilege is a “covert form of racism.” It even describes how white nurses “contribute to modern-day lynchings in the workplace.”

We called out this insulting and inappropriate training on September 30. A month and a half later, the board removed the recommendation from its website. That’s right: The Kentucky Board of Nursing is trying to pretend like it never told nurses to sit through training that all but accused them of being part of the KKK.

Why did the board remove it? Who does it think it’s fooling? Most of all, why does it still mandate that nurses take implicit bias training at all? 

It’s bad enough that the Kentucky Board of Nursing is trying to hide its own woke bias. It’s even worse that it doesn’t have any plans to change.

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Maternal Mortality in the U.S.-Media Narratives and Reality

Black women’s mortality rates are reported to be several fold higher than white women and the overall U.S. rate is said to be substantially higher than other developed nations.

A substantial part of the reported U.S. rate may result from a reporting system that has overestimated maternal deaths and one whose metrics are different from other developed nations.

Read Dr. Stanley Goldfarb’s op-ed on the issue:

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