Benita Cotton-Orr
Senior Fellow
Benita, who immigrated from South Africa in 1986, is a policy analyst with a background in journalism. Her outspoken opposition to racially based and discriminatory policies is rooted in personal experience and the discrimination and inequities her family, friends and colleagues suffered under apartheid.
Authored Content
Podcast
S1E12: The Dangerous Influence of the Anti-Racism Movement on Society
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb and Benita Cotton-Orr discuss how the woke movement towards anti-Racism has transformed how Americans view one another, shifting from a perspective of opportunity to one of oppression.
Podcast
S1E11: Pushing Back Implicit Bias Training With Professionalism
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb explains the false premises behind Implicit Bias Training and details Do No Harm’s efforts in the states and Washington, D.C. to educate policymakers and leaders that this…
Podcast
S1E10: Optimal Outcomes vs The Equality Approach
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb and Benita Cotton-Orr discuss how we should refocus the health care reform conversation on improving outcomes for all patients rather than the current race-based approach to treatment.
Op-Ed
The Medical College of Georgia’s Radical Turn
Medical College of Georgia
There’s a sickness at Georgia’s biggest medical school. Out of sight of the public eye, the taxpayer-funded Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University is promoting divisive and even discriminatory…
Podcast
S1E9: Standing Up Against Woke Ideology
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb and Benita Cotton-Orr discuss the role of government in implementing a woke approach in healthcare. Despite the federal bureaucracy’s embrace of woke ideology, they see hope in…
Podcast
S1E8: Standing Up Against Woke Ideology
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb and Benita Cotton-Orr share best practices for standing up against the woke ideology that is infiltrating health care. From helping professors push back against DEI requirements for…
Podcast
S1E7: The Healthcare System’s Two Paths
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb and Dr. Benita Cotton-Orr examine the two paths that our healthcare system can take as we move ahead to the future, including considerations for access and how…
Podcast
S1E6: Academic Journals and the Infusion of Censorship, Bias, and Bad Research
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb and Senior Fellow Benita Cotton-Orr expose how medical journals are excluding research that doesn’t align with diversity, equity, and inclusion – representing a massive intrusion of racial…
Podcast
S1E4: The Hippocratic Oath
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb explains the history of the Hippocratic Oath, its focus on treating patients – no matter who they are – the same, and how it is the foundation…
Podcast
S1E3: Medical Students and Woke Medicine
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…
Op-Ed
A Woke Panic on Maternal Mortality
Is there an epidemic of black mothers dying in the delivery room? So it would seem, given the drumbeat of academic studies and media stories over the past few years, …
Podcast
S1E2: Politics in Medicine
In our second episode, Benita Cotton-Orr and Dr. Stanley Goldfarb discuss when—and how—politics became such a big part of medicine.
Podcast
S1E1: Medical Schools as Institutions
In this inaugural episode, Dr. Stanley Goldfarb joins Benita Cotton-Orr to share his personal journey from practitioner to educator. Stan shares how he became aware – tragically – of the…
Op-Ed
Corruption of healthcare comes to Colorado Springs
The same divisive ideology that’s corrupting K-12 schools and threatening funding for public safety is rapidly taking over healthcare. It goes by many names: “Critical Race Theory,” “anti-racism,” “diversity, equity,…
Op-Ed
Team Biden’s racial discrimination in health care reminds me of South Africa’s apartheid I grew up under
Have you ever seen racial discrimination and segregation in health care? I have. And I worry it’s coming to America. I grew up in apartheid South Africa, where the color…