We Checked, And Don Lemon Told A Series Of Whoppers During The Elon Musk Interview

Ex-CNN host Don Lemon pushed a variety of inaccuracies and straight up falsehoods during his widely circulated March interview with tech billionaire Elon Musk.

Lemon cited unspecified “studies” or “evidence” at least 12 times during the hour-long interview, according to a Daily Caller review, specifically to support the liberal sacred cow of “Diversity Equity and Inclusion” (DEI) and the various initiatives that go along with the DEI belief system.

Lemon repeatedly insisted that there was “no evidence” medical schools and the airline industry were lowering their standards, DEI didn’t have negative effects and that diverse companies performed better. It turns out, Lemon appears to be inaccurate or incorrect on all these claims.

Read more in the Daily Caller.

Detransitioner Chloe Cole warns Disney CEO Bob Iger that ‘lawsuits are coming’

Gender activist Chloe Cole warned Disney about upcoming lawsuits at its annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday.

She presented the “Gender-Based Compensation Gaps and Associated Risks” proposal that noted the Walt Disney Company’s medical benefits for employees cover gender dysphoria transitioning but does not provide medical care or insurance coverage for those who desire to “detransition.” Her proposal calls out the company’s “inequities” in compensation and benefits for employees across gender categories.

Cole posted a video of her comments on Wednesday at the Disney shareholder meeting discussing the proposal.

Read more in the Washington Examiner.

More Wokeness in Medicine

Last year, I wrote for the magazine about the “rampant politicization of health care.” Thanks to greater government involvement in medicine, the ties between academia and the practice of medicine, and other pressures (with George Floyd’s death serving as a special catalyst), medical-school curricula, professional medical associations, and other aspects of the field increasingly reflect and transmit left-wing ideology.

Read more on National Review.

Disney Is About to Get Schooled at Its Shareholder Meeting

Disney will be slammed at Wednesday’s shareholder meeting over its pro-“transgender” employment practices.

Healthcare accountability group Do No Harm, which works to counteract DEI trends in medicine, and the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), an investor in The Walt Disney Company, will confront the multinational media corporation for allegedly discriminating against “de-transitioning” employees who are seeking reconstructive care in the aftermath of medical butchery.

“Disney pays for gender-transition treatments, but not de-transitioning care, and therefore, discriminates based on gender identity,” NLPC explains in a video released ahead of Disney’s annual meeting, where the conservative watchdog is set to submit a shareholder proposal demanding that the entertainment giant investigates its policies that allegedly exclude “de-transitioners.”

Read more on Townhall.

UCLA Medical School Abruptly Cancels Lecture Blaming ‘Whiteness’ for Opioid Crisis

The University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) medical school recently scheduled a lecture focused on the role “whiteness” played in driving the opioid crisis — but abruptly changed the topic of the lecture just two days before it was supposed to take place and limited attendance to in-person only.

Last week, UCLA health advertised an event with professor Dr. Helena Hansen titled, “Beyond Magic Bullets: Whiteness as a Structural Driver of the Opioid Crisis.” The Gold Humanism Honor Society sponsored the lecture, according to a poster obtained by National Review. The event was scheduled for April 4, in-person in the school’s Tamkin auditorium, with an option for Zoom attendance.

Read more on National Review.

Minnesota school district seeks to hire $100-200k ‘anti-racist’ official who can examine ‘Whiteness’

A school district in Minnesota posted a racially charged job listing seeking an administrator to help steer the district’s policy on race.

The St. Louis Park Public School District recently posted a job listing for an Assistant Superintendent earning between $134,141 – $201,212. The position “Oversees the districtwide efforts related to student management/discipline” and “Participates in legislation and rulemaking at state and federal level to ensure that the District has representation regarding the impact of proposed laws and rules in the areas impacting teaching and learning for each student.”

Read more on Fox News.

Disney won’t help the detransitioners its transgender activism encouraged to go under the knife

Does Disney care about more about the praise of transgender activists or the pain of its employees and their family, including children? 

The answer will become clear at the company’s April 3 annual meeting, when shareholders vote on a proposal my organization filed.

We’re asking the company, which has famously associated itself with the gender-ideology movement, to stop ignoring the significant medical needs of those who’ve tried to reverse their sex transitions.

My group, as a Disney shareholder, filed our proposal with the company in October.

We want the entertainment giant to explain why its health insurance doesn’t include coverage for people who attempt to detransition.

Read more at the New York Post.

Dangerous Quackery

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Radical activists are so determined to enshrine the idea that race is a social construct with no biological relevance that they are willing to endanger patient care to make their case. If they get their way, the next battleground for the assault on science and common sense could be obstetrics.

Historically, black race has been considered a risk factor for preeclampsia (marked by persistent high blood pressure), a dangerous and sometimes life-threatening pregnancy complication. Black women exhibit a higher incidence of preeclampsia, and the discrepancy is not fully explained by potential confounding factors such as obesity and hypertension. According to newly published commentary in The New England Journal of Medicine, the culprit is racism—the apparent causative agent of every health disparity these days.

Read more in City Journal.

Why I’m Saying No to NIH’s Racial Preferences

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Do I deserve to jump the line? If I say yes, I may play a leading role in ending the scourge of atherosclerosis—also known as hardening of the arteries. If I play fair, I may lose the opportunity to save people around the world from heart attacks and strokes. I’m angry at the National Institutes of Health for putting me in this position. I’m even angrier it has done so in the name of racial equity.

My quandary comes down to whether I should “check the box” on an upcoming NIH grant application attesting to my recent African heritage. Since at least 2015, the NIH has asserted its belief in the intrinsic superiority of racially diverse research teams, all but stating that such diversity influences funding decisions. My family’s origins qualify me under the federal definition of African-American. Yet I feel it’s immoral and narcissistic to use race to gain an advantage over other applicants. All that should matter is the merit of my application and the body of my work, which is generally accepted as foundational in atherosclerosis research.

Read more in the Wall Street Journal.

Illinois University Nursing Program Gets DEI Grant To Promote ‘Racial Healing’

A university in Illinois has received a grant to promote “racial healing” and will hire a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) consultant to revise its nursing program.

The Department of Nursing at Elmhurst University received a $25,000 grant to hire the consultant to “ensure its Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) curriculum fully integrates diversity, equity and inclusion concepts,” the university said in a press release.

Read more on the Daily Wire.

Illinois university nursing program gets ‘racial healing’ grant for DEI curriculum

Elmhurst University will hire a “diversity, equity, and inclusion” consultant to revise its nursing program.

The $25,000 “racial healing” grant from Illinois will “help the department ensure its Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) curriculum fully integrates diversity, equity and inclusion concepts,” according to a March news release.

“We’re hoping to get people more comfortable talking and learning about the intersectionality of our lives and society,” Becky Hullet, director of the west suburban Chicago university’s graduate nursing programs, stated in the news release.

The eventual goal is to integrate DEI throughout all nursing degrees.

Read more on The College Fix.

Your Kid Announces They’re Trans. Now What?

It could happen on any given weeknight: While you are enjoying dinner with your family, your teenage daughter suddenly announces that she was born in the wrong body, that you have to start calling her by a male name, and that she wants to start taking cross-sex hormones. And she’s serious about it.

What do you do next? 

“It’s very important for the parents to not react in a way that is terribly negative or terribly judgmental, even if they may be feeling at the moment that this is just madness, and this doesn’t make any sense,” advised Dr. Miriam Grossman, a psychiatrist and the author of five books. In her 2009 book “You’re Teaching My Child WHAT?” she warned parents about how sex education has evolved to promote sexual freedom and gender confusion. In her latest book from 2023, “Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist’s Guide Out of the Madness,” she wrote about the damage that the so-called “gender-affirming care” is inflicting on our youth.

Although there’s no one-size-fits-all guide to navigating this scenario, there are some main points to consider.

Read more on the Epoch Times.

North Carolina Rep. Introduces Bill Banning Funding to Medical Schools With DEI Programs

Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.) introduced a bill on March 19 that would ban “race-based mandates” at medical schools across the country.

Known as the “Embracing anti-Discrimination, Unbiased Curricula, and Advancing Truth in Education (EDUCATE) Act,” the measure would block medical schools that provide diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs or that adopt certain policies and requirements relating to DEI, from receiving federal funds.

Specifically, the bill states that no graduate medical school at an institution of higher education will be eligible to receive government funding or any other form of financial assistance—including student loans—under any federal program if it forces students to adopt specific beliefs.

Read more on the Epoch Times.

Arizona State University professor sues school over DEI training: ‘simply racism’

A longtime professor at Arizona State University (ASU) sued the university on Tuesday over a mandatory diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) course for faculty, arguing it violates state law. 

Owen Anderson, a professor of philosophy, religious studies and theology at ASU, is suing the school with the help of the conservative nonprofit the Goldwater Institute, claiming it is in violation of a two-year-old state law that forbids public agencies from requiring employees to engage in training that presents any form of “blame or judgment on the basis of race, ethnicity or sex.”

Anderson could face discipline from his superiors for refusing to participate in the DEI training, according to a press release from the Goldwater Institute. The complaint alleges the training discriminates by “compelling the speech of public employees by requiring faculty and staff to take an examination following a training that presents forms of blame or judgment on the basis of race, ethnicity or sex, and answer with Arizona State University’s ‘correct’ answers, in violation of the Arizona Constitution.”

Read more on Fox News.

Proposal would halt taxpayer money to medical schools promoting racial bias

Educating from the podium and advocating for the inclusion of all, congressmen led by North Carolina’s Dr. Greg Murphy and Ohio’s Dr. Brad Wenstrup on Tuesday introduced legislation that would halt taxpayer money from going to medical schools promoting racial bias.

Multiple speakers, both Black and white and at least one saying she’s neither Republican nor Democrat, drove home the message directly and indirectly that health care is about the patients and their outcomes. Collectively, they explained how the best care comes from the best in education, that all can access it, and the promotion of “critical race theory-based woke philosophy based on DEI” will put Americans’ lives at risk.

Read more on The Center Square.

House Republicans to introduce bill ending federal funding for medical schools with DEI, ‘race-based mandates’

Two House Republicans are sponsoring legislation to stop federal funding for medical schools with diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices.

Reps. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, and Greg Murphy, R-N.C., will host a press conference at 2 p.m. ET on Tuesday on the EDUCATE Act, which looks “to eliminate all Federal funding, including student loans, to medical schools and accrediting institutions with race-based mandates and DEI practices,” according to a press release from Wenstrup’s office Monday.

Also scheduled to speak are Do No Harm President Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, and Tabia Lee, founding member of Free Black Thought and former head of DEI at De Anza College.

Read more on Fox News.

Republicans go all out to ban DEI mandates in medical schools

GOP lawmakers proposed legislation Tuesday banning race-based mandates at medical schools and accrediting institutions.

The Embracing anti-Discrimination, Unbiased Curricula, and Advancing Truth in Education Act was introduced by North Carolina Rep. Greg Murphy, a urologist who is the only actively practicing physician in Congress.

“American medical schools are the best in the world and no place for discrimination,” said Mr. Murphy. The EDUCATE Act compels medical schools and accrediting agencies to uphold colorblind admissions processes and prohibits the coercion of students who hold certain political opinions.

Read more on the Washington Times.

House bill looks to end federal funding for medical schools with DEI

House Republicans introduced a bill Tuesday to ban funding to medical schools that use diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology.

Reps. Greg Murphy (R-NC) and Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) introduced the Embracing anti-Discrimination, Unbiased Curricula, and Advancing Truth in Education, or EDUCATE, Act aiming to eliminate federal funding, including student loans, for medical schools that advance or use DEI.

Flanked by other physician House members and medical advocates at a press conference in front of the Capitol Tuesday afternoon, Murphy and Wenstrup, both of whom are doctors, decried the harm DEI has done to the medical field.

Read more on the Washington Examiner.