Ian Kingsbury
Director of Research
His past research in public policy has focused on economic development, education, and healthcare. His work has been frequently cited by regional and national media. Kingsbury’s quantitative analysis of the death toll associated with Governor Cuomo’s directive transferring COVID-positive patients to nursing homes was featured in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, and Fox News.
Kingsbury received his B.A. in history and government from William & Mary, his M.A. in education policy from Teachers College, Columbia University and his PhD in education policy from the University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform. He was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and a Research Fellow at the Empire Center for Public Policy.
Authored Content
Op-Ed
Selective Research from the AAMC
The Association of American Medical Colleges goes cherry-picking for data supporting “racial concordance” in patient treatment. Early last month, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)—the organization that oversees the…
Commentary
Trans activists aren’t ready to tell the truth about Europe
When will transgender activists tell the truth about Europeans reversing course on so-called “gender-affirming” care for kids? Several weeks ago, the Ohio House Public Health Committee heard testimony from critics…
Op-Ed
The Endocrine Society’s Dangerous Transgender Politicization
A federal court last week struck down an Arkansas law banning the provision of sex-change procedures—off-label “puberty blockers,” opposite-sex hormones and surgery—to minors. In the June 20 ruling, Judge James…
Op-Ed
Public Health Goes Woke on Counting Deaths
A recent study on mortality rates between different races offers politicized deceptions instead of scientific inquiry. Woke ideology isn’t corrupting just our children’s education and our political discourse. Just as troubling…
Op-Ed
Get ready for the lies about affirmative action
Barring a major surprise, the U.S. Supreme Court will put the kibosh on affirmative action in college admissions in the coming weeks. The 74 % of Americans who think that race and ethnicity…
Commentary
New Race Concordance Study Should Leave Readers Skeptical
Black Representation in the Primary Care Physician Workforce and Its Association with Population Life Expectancy and Mortality Rates in the US was recently published in JAMA Network Open. The researchers…
Op-Ed
When Political Dogma Replaces Medical Truth
The peer-review process is consistently failing to stop bad scholarship on gender medicine. No policies are more fraught right now than those involving gender transition and children. That makes it…
Commentary
Is Anti-racism a Panacea? Common Sense and Methodological Rigor Say No, But “Researchers” Say Yes
Climate change, substance abuse, mental health, school violence, economic development,…
