Ten years ago today, we launched The Daily Signal with a vision of producing quality journalism about issues that matter to the American people.
In the past decade, we sure have.
Here’s a look at some of the best journalism produced by The Daily Signal over the years.
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It’s not too late to turn back. That’s what the Endocrine Society, one of North America’s most powerful medical institutions, must remember as its annual meeting occurs in Boston this week.
The society is one of the foremost advocates of aggressive, invasive, and irreversible “gender-affirming” treatments for children. For years, it has played a major role in lawsuits that have struck down state laws protecting children, and judges, politicians, physicians, and patients look to it for guidance. Yet recent developments should cause the Endocrine Society to reconsider its stance for the sake of children.
I say this as a longtime endocrinologist who attended the society’s 2023 meeting in Chicago. My peers and I have long acknowledged the weak evidence supporting “gender-affirming” treatments for children.
Read more on The Washington Examiner.
The University of California, Los Angeles medical school solicited first-year medical students for a paid position writing curriculums for courses in their “Structural Racism and Health Equity” mandatory classes.
In documents obtained through a public records request from the medical advocacy group Do No Harm, the medical school was recruiting “tutors” to “create new curricular content for our SRHE thread—lectures, panels, discussion guides, cases, new electives—as well as audit and analyze existing curricular content for other SRHE threads.” SRHE is the school’s name for its Structural Racism and Health Equity curriculum.
Read more on The Washington Examiner.
California’s medical credentialing boards would have to fast-track licenses for clinicians and therapists focused on gender transitions and other gender-affirming care under a bill that has already cleared the state assembly.
The legislation would require the state medical board, osteopathic board, nursing board, and physicians assistant board to expedite licenses “for an applicant who demonstrates that they intend to provide gender-affirming health care and gender-affirming mental health care.”
Read more on The Washington Free Beacon.
A Montana couple who lost custody of their 14-year-old daughter because they opposed her undergoing “gender-affirming” treatments transitioning her to a boy, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state’s Child and Family Services (CFS).
Todd Kolstad, the girl’s biological father, and Krista Cummins-Koldstad, her stepmother, were told by state social workers that their “objections to transgenderism made them unfit parents” and “they would not regain custody of their daughter unless they accepted her transgenderism,” the lawsuit states.
Read more on The Epoch Times.
Missouri Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey is looking into the influence of social workers and therapists as part of his investigation into the Washington University Transgender Center.
According to documents arising from lawsuits regarding the investigation, Bailey is casting a wide net to uncover the web of medical professionals who have a hand in pushing children toward transition, including social workers and therapists.
Bailey’s expansive investigation started after whistleblower Jamie Reed, a former employee at the clinic, filed an affidavit last year regarding what she saw as the lax protocols the clinic followed in order to justify allowing children to seek the often irreversible medical pathway.
Read more on the Washington Examiner.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is looking to push equity requirements on hospitals providing kidney transplants, according to a recent proposal.
The proposal, announced May 8, will help President Joe Biden’s administration’s plan to address “racial bias” when it came to wait times and “profiteering and inequity” by transplant hospitals, Secretary Xavier Becerra said in the press release. HHS’ proposal would incentivize hospitals to prioritize low-income patients via a point system and create “health equity” plans to address patient gaps.
“The organ transplant industry, like every other part of society, is not immune to racial inequities,” Becerra said in the press release. “Black Americans disproportionately struggle with life-threatening kidney disease, yet they receive a smaller percentage of kidney transplants. The Biden-Harris Administration is taking concrete steps to remove racial bias when calculating wait times and rooting out profiteering and inequity in the transplant process.”
Read more on the Daily Caller.
The Biden administration unveiled a plan that would push American hospitals to prioritize low-income patients when performing kidney transplants, a move Health and Human Services secretary Xavier Becerra says is aimed at rooting out “racial inequities” in the “transplant process.”
The proposal, which Becerra’s agency announced on May 8, would place 90 of the nation’s 257 transplant hospitals into a pilot program that uses an annual point system to grade participants. Under the system, a successful kidney transplant counts as one point. A transplant furnished to a low-income patient, however, counts as 1.2 points thanks to a “health equity performance adjustment,” thus incentivizing the hospitals to prioritize such patients.
Read more on the Washington Free Beacon.
I proposed two resolutions to put medicine over activism. Both failed.
The Texas Medical Association, which Texans look to for medical guidance, has allowed activists to weaken its commitment to the best possible health care. I witnessed this capitulation firsthand at the TMA’s annual meeting on May 3 and 4.
As a longtime member, I know the association is supposed to unite all medical specialties around the common goal of improving Texans’ health. I wanted to ensure the association continues to do that, respecting evidence-based medicine and encouraging physicians to speak freely about the best way to help patients. So I introduced two resolutions for my fellow delegates’ consideration.
Read more in the Dallas Morning News.
American college campuses are gripped by a wave of revolutionary fervor eerily reminiscent of what I witnessed in Iran during its Islamic Revolution.
If the vast “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” bureaucracies on college campuses truly cared about fostering inclusion and harmony — let alone the values of Western civilization — they would take a loud and forceful stand against mobs excluding Jewish students from public spaces and chanting for their annihilation. Instead, DEI personnel have been conspicuously quiet. It’s part of a familiar pattern.
Read more on the Daily Caller.
Although progressive leftists have pretty much pirouetted from their love affair with Communist Russia in favor of close comradeship with various Middle Eastern terrorist groups, it’s worth reminding them of some of the more dehumanizing aspects of the Stalinist enterprise. Dan Healey, a professor emeritus of modern Russian history at the University of Oxford, delves deeply into the Russian Gulag system and the physicians and other health care workers who provided medical care to both the prisoners and to the staff that maintained this vast prison system. (The term “Gulag” is an acronym for the “main administration of corrective labour camps.”)
Read more on the Washington Free Beacon.
A Columbia University professor secured a $125,441 grant to research the link between “structural racism” and “Alzheimer’s disease related dementias.”
Professor Paris Adkins-Jackson is currently investigating this issue with the help of a grant from the National Institute on Aging which runs until 2028.
She (pictured) began the research in 2023 with a grant for $125,442 also from the National Institute on Aging.
The grant will assist her research into how “historical police-sanctioned lynchings during early life, to police-involved killings, arrests, and incarcerations of Black and Latinx/a/o persons during midlife,” can contribute to memory diseases later in life.
Read more on The College Fix.
BALTIMORE (TND) — A transgender health group tried to prevent researchers from publishing a study showing little evidence supporting gender transition procedures for children, according to documents acquired by Do No Harm (DNH).
In 2020, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) commissioned researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Maryland to execute “systematic reviews on the evidence supporting ‘gender affirming’ care,” DNH wrote via X. Those researchers allegedly found “little to no evidence about children and adolescents.”
Read more on The National Desk.
A new rule proposed by the Biden Department of Health and Human Services intends to increase access to kidney transplants for all people with end-stage renal disease by reducing racial disparities among Black patients.
HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra lauded the rule, which would be implemented through HHS’ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Mr. Becerra said in a statement that the organ transplant industry “is not immune to racial inequities” and that “Black Americans disproportionately struggle with life-threatening kidney disease, yet they receive a smaller percentage of kidney transplants.”
Read more on The Washington Times.
Reuters shared sob stories over the weekend from anti-Israel student protesters who have been outed by the anti-Semitism watchdog Canary Mission. Reuters, which itself was criticized by an anti-Semitism watchdog group in November over ties to at least one likely Hamas freelancer, concern-mongered over the efficacy of Canary Mission’s work Saturday, suggesting that it has exposed Hamas-anointed student radicals to undue “abuse,” “harassment,” and “attacks” online.
Reuters told the tale of how 20-year-old Egyptian-American student Layla Sayed found her way onto the watchdog’s radar. Although apparently long a supporter of Palestinian causes, Sayed indicated the Oct. 16 anti-Israel rally at the University of Pennsylvania was her first. It would later shock her to discover that some people might take issue to her chanting, “When people are occupied, resistance is justified” — an apparent rationalization for the unprovoked massacre of over 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7 and for other attacks of that nature.
Read more on Blaze Media.
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik is urging university leaders across the country to do some “serious soul searching.” Good advice. She should start with her own soul. Shafik has the wrong idea about the purpose of a university.
She and likeminded college presidents are turning preeminent universities into factories, churning out social activists who are adept at shouting down their opponents, squaring off against cops, and vandalizing buildings but who acquire little knowledge and few reasoning skills during college.
Harvard, Yale, UPenn, and Stanford are searching for new presidents. Cornell joined the ranks last week when its president Martha E. Pollack resigned.
Read more on The Epoch Times.
Nurse: $25,000 could be better used to teach health care management, leadership
Most of a state “racial healing” grant will be spent on a “diversity, equity, and inclusion” consultant for Elmhurst University’s nursing school, according to documents shared with The College Fix.
The Healing Illinois grant comes from the Illinois Department of Human Services and YWCA Northwestern Illinois, according to the grant acceptance letter. The goal is to fund projects supporting “racial healing” and “racial equity.”
As The Fix previously reported, the Illinois government plans to spend up to $4.5 million on “anti-racism” and “racial healing” grants like the one to Elmhurst. The university received $25,000 through the program in March to “ensure its Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) curriculum fully integrates diversity, equity and inclusion concepts.”
Read more on The College Fix.
Internal training footage from the world’s leading transgender medical association revealed several prominent gender doctors acknowledging how little is known about the impact of sex reassignment drugs, complicating the organization’s latest treatment guidelines.
The footage, obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation through a public records request, shows several faculty members of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Global Education Institute discussing hormonal treatments for gender dysphoria — and their resulting side effects.
Read more on the Daily Caller.