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Pfizer Diversity Program Suit in Doubt as Appeal May Be Moot

Recent changes to Pfizer Inc.‘s fellowship program aimed at building a diverse workforce suggest that a legal challenge to that program might no longer be valid, a panel of federal appeals court judges in Manhattan indicated.

During oral arguments Tuesday, Judge Beth Robinson of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit suggested to Pfizer that the appeal appears moot because the company amended the program’s requirements for the 2023 fellowship class by opening it up to applicants of all racial backgrounds.

“I was looking for the mootness argument based on the changes. I thought that would be the logical play for Pfizer but that’s not what I’m seeing,” Robinson told Samantha Lee Chaifetz of DLA Piper LLC, who represented Pfizer.

“I think that is certainly our position,” Chaifetz replied.

Do No Harm, an advocacy group of health-care professionals, students, and policy makers, appealed a federal district court’s December 2022 ruling that the organization lacked standing to block the pharmaceutical giant from continuing its fellowship program.

UT System Medical School Offering Race-Based ‘Enrichment Program’ for Reapplicants

As colleges adjust to the recent ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and offices that the Texas Legislature passed in its 88th Legislative Session, one University of Texas System medical school is continuing to offer race-based programs as part of its recruitment efforts.

The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston has released a new “reapplicant enrichment program” promoted as being for “underrepresented minority and disadvantaged students into medical careers.”

To qualify for the program, an applicant must meet one of the following criteria: “African American male, underrepresented in Medicine (African American, American Indian, Hispanic, Hawaiian/Pacific Islander), First-Generation College Student, or educationally and/or economically disadvantaged background.”

Wisconsin ban on gender care would put kids at risk, advocates say

Wisconsin Gender Ideology Media Mention

Health care providers and LGBTQ advocates are emphasizing the need for medical services for transgender youths in Wisconsin at the same time Republican lawmakers are pushing to ban gender-affirming care.

Three GOP legislators circulated a bill Wednesday to discipline physicians who provide gender-affirming care for minors. Another group of lawmakers want a bill to create a civil cause of action for anyone who believes they were harmed by the care.

Gender-affirming care encompasses a range of health care designed to address gender dysphoria, when a person’s identity conflicts with their gender assigned at birth. The exact treatments can vary depending on age. Younger teens can receive puberty blockers that halt or delay the onset of puberty, with the goal of allowing them more time to determine their gender identity before developing certain sex characteristics, such as those associated with genitalia, hair or breasts.

Culture War | Fighting Against Opinion Based Medicine

Media Mention, Video

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Moms on a Mission welcomes Dr. Stanley Goldfarb who started an organization called, “Do No Harm” in April of 2022 after he wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal called, “Take Two Aspirin and Call Me By My Pronouns”. He shares that medical education was starting to take a turn at that point and he was seeing more and more focus around the country on social issues rather than on producing the best physicians who have the most knowledge about caring for sick people which is the role of physicians. He continues to say that he was noticing that the effort was made to create more of a diverse medical school class and there was sacrifice to the merit of the students in favor of making sure their skin color was of a great variety when they took a class picture.

After the article, he wrote a book with the same title expounding on these very ideas. He explains that he later felt that he needed to do more so he started an organization called, “Do No Harm”, which has been successful in producing lawsuits against people risking the quality of American medicine and producing discriminatory activities. “Do No Harm” has helped get laws passed in 20 states regarding “gender affirming care” along with “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” activities in several states. They have 5000 members now! Dr. Goldfarb has been canceled because of his activities and when you go to the University of Pennsylvania website, his name is gone even though his name is on the books as an Emeritus Professor of Medicine and was the co-director of the Kidney Division. His name has been removed from the history of that website.

Dr. Goldfarb shares that the grave concern and difficulty with fighting this is that in the face of this opinion based medicine, there has been a solid front of academic medical societies in the United States.

Join “Do No Harm” and support them with prayer, reading their newsletters, and financially if you feel so led. None of the members are making any money.

Watchdog Reveals ‘Disturbing’ Consent Form Details Offered to Children by Utah Gender Clinic

Utah Gender Ideology Media Mention

Gender-transition treatments offered by gender clinics to minors can result in serious side effects like erectile dysfunction, loss of fertility, decreased sperm production, and even death, admitted “consent forms” obtained by advocacy America First Legal (AFL).

In June, AFL filed public records requests with gender clinics in five states to obtain records related to “gender-affirming care.” The advocacy recently received consent forms from the University of Utah Health: Gender Management and Support Clinic.

Minnesota university teaches structural racism is public health crisis, physicians ‘must’ be antiracist

Minnesota DEI Medical School Media Mention

The University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health is using curriculum that teaches that structural racism is a public health crisis and that physicians have an obligation to be antiracist.

The University of Minnesota School of Public Health’s Center For Antiracism Research For Health Equity [CAHRE], the Minnesota Department of Health, and an organization called Diversity Science collaborated on developing a curriculum to help medical professionals provide perinatal care for Black and Indigenous “birthing people.”

Diversity Science is a public company that provides training programs that are intended to help organizations foster diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. According to Diversity Science’s website, they are an “evidence-based organization” that provides clients with real-world knowledge and effective programs.

A New Front in the War on Merit

DEI Op-Ed Ian Kingsbury, PhD

Millions of academic studies are published each year. Some fundamentally alter the course of history, while others never even get cited. Those curious about the effect of specific researchers, papers, or journals often turn to a metric called “impact factor.” This metric counts the number of citations accrued by a researcher or research paper, or the average number of citations for studies in a specific journal. It’s a sensible and simple method for measuring influence.

According to a new “study,” it’s also an exercise in racism and sexism.

The paper, “A new tool for evaluating health equity in academic journals; the Diversity Factor,” published in PLOS Global Public Health, correctly points out that impact factor is an imperfect measure of cultural and scientific reach. Among the problems: researchers game the stats through self-citation, and journal-impact factors are skewed by studies that pick up extremely high numbers of citations. Still, impact factor represents a reasonably good proxy of the thing it purports to measure. While sensible researchers know not to let the perfect be the enemy of the good, activists instead see imperfection as opportunity. Enter: the “diversity factor.”

‘Reverse discrimination’ activist files Title IX complaint against Baldwin Scholars program

DEI Media Mention

A prominent “reverse discrimination” activist filed a federal complaint Wednesday evening against Duke’s Alice M. Baldwin Scholars program, alleging that the program for female-identifying students violates Title IX provisions.

Mark Perry, an emeritus professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the University of Michigan–Flint, has been filing federal civil rights complaints against U.S. colleges and universities alleging “reverse discrimination” under Title IX and Title VI for seven years.

Bye, DEI. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out

DEI Media Mention

Diversity, equity, and inclusion has insinuated itself into many aspects of people’s lives, from corporate hiring to college admissions. Over much of the past few years, diversity officers have been some of the hottest hires in business , university, and government bureaucracies. But recently, they’ve begun to feel left out in the cold.

According to the Wall Street Journal , “Companies including Netflix, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery have said recently that high-profile diversity, equity and inclusion executives will be leaving their jobs. Thousands of diversity-focused workers have been laid off since last year, and some companies are scaling back racial justice commitments.”

EXCLUSIVE: University Spent Over $200,000 On ‘Diversity’ Course Teaching Physicians That Healthcare Is Racist

Minnesota DEI University of Minnesota Medical School Medical School Media Mention

The University of Minnesota (UMN) paid over $200,000 to develop a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) training program that teaches medical professionals that healthcare is fundamentally racist, according to documents received by the medical watchdog Do No Harm and shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The training, developed by Diversity Science, is intended to educate healthcare professionals on obstetric care for black and indigenous women, which the training dubs “birthing people,” and highlights perceived “structural racism” in healthcare practices. Moreover, UMN’s DEI office blames “white supremacy” for certain disparities in perinatal care, and trains providers to view the development of medicine and the healthcare system as tainted with racism, documents obtained by Do Not Harm reveal.

California Passes Bills Targeting Parental Rights

California Gender Ideology State legislature Media Mention

Gender affirmation will become a factor in California child custody cases if Gov. Gavin Newsom signs new legislation into law.

If the bill, AB-957, is signed into law, a parent who disagrees with their child seeking social transitioning or gender transition procedures could lose custody of the child and face child abuse charges.

Harvard research blames ‘white supremacy,’ ‘capitalism’ for pregnant black moms’ health problems

Massachusetts DEI Harvard School of Public Health Medical Journal, Private university Media Mention

Study: Policy changes needed to ‘dismantle structural racism’

Capitalism, “white supremacy,” and “structural racism” are to blame for the high rate of black maternal health problems in the U.S., according to a new study out of Harvard University.

The study, “A conceptual understanding of the impact of interconnected forms of racism on maternal hypertension through Black Women’s lived experiences,” asserts that black women have disproportionately high maternal mortality and hypertension rates because of systemic racism.

Gavin Newsom faces slate of transgender bills targeting parental rights

California Gender Ideology State legislature Media Mention

California’s legislature has taken major steps to institutionalize hiding child transgender identity from parents in a slate of bills headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) desk.

One or both houses of the Golden State legislature have overwhelmingly passed five separate bills aimed at both hiding childhood proclamations of transgender identity from parents and punishing them for not “affirming” the child through social and medical interventions.

Wokeness Has Infected the Mayo Clinic

Arizona, Florida, Minnesota DEI Hospital System Op-Ed

In 39 years as a practicing nurse, I urged hundreds if not thousands of patients to consider seeking additional care at the Mayo Clinic. The famous medical center, based in Minnesota and with major campuses in Florida and Arizona, is widely regarded as one of the best in the country. Yet I can no longer in good conscience recommend this once-prestigious institution. The Mayo Clinic is now fully and unashamedly woke, and worse, it’s aggressively pushing its divisive agenda on the rest of health care.

‘Horrified’ hospital employee leaks DEI training pushing 3-year-olds identifying as transgender

California DEI Hospital System Media Mention

A “horrified” hospital employee at Kaiser Permanente leaked a sex change training for diversity, equity and inclusion, which promoted the idea that a 3-year-old can be transgender.

“The employee, who wishes to remain anonymous for fear of losing her job, was horrified,” according to the Wednesday report from Libs of TikTok.

As part of the hospital system’s DEI training, medical employees were expected to watch a video with children explaining they knew they were transgender at age 3 and 4.

“Many transgender people have ALWAYS known their true gender,” the video said.

Thousands of US children underwent gender transition: Study

Gender Ideology Media Mention

Thousands of children have undergone gender transition surgeries in recent years, following a trend that has “increased significantly,” according to the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The study identified 48,019 Americans of all ages who had undergone some form of gender dysphoria-related surgery in the United States between 2016 and 2019.

Nearly 4,000 of those were between the ages of 12 and 18. The reasoning for including 18-year-olds, the age of adulthood, in the younger cohort was not explained, so it is unclear by the study how many who are legally children were given the surgeries.

However, a recent Vanderbilt University study found that 489 children between the ages of 12 and 17, with a median age of 16, had gotten their breasts removed in a double mastectomy in 2019 alone.

Medical Doctors, or Social Workers?

United States DEI Medical Journal Op-Ed Stanley Goldfarb

Physicians need to practice medicine, not worry about the “social determinants of health.”

Can your doctor cure poverty? How about homelessness? Food insecurity? For that matter, does your doctor treat the legacy of slavery and racial discrimination?

Most people answer this question readily: No. Doctors are trained to treat medical conditions, helping patients lead healthier, happier, longer lives. Yet the medical elite think the answer is “yes.” For years, health disparities between white and minority communities have been attributed to the so-called social determinants of health (SDH), which include the effects of poverty on communities, the residue of historic discrimination, and purported ongoing discriminatory practices in health care. But do these factors really determine health—or are they more properly termed “social factors affecting behaviors associated with health status”? That’s not nearly as catchy as SDH. It just happens to be more accurate.

9th & Congress | Episode 6: The Fight Against Discriminatory Ideologies with Dr. Stanley Goldfarb

DEI Media Mention, Video

TPPF’s Sherry Sylvester sits down with Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, Do No Harm founder and author of “Take Two Aspirin and Call Me By My Pronouns – Why Turning Doctors into Social Justice Warriors is destroying American Medicine” to discuss the fight to stop the radically divisive and discriminatory political ideologies that are eliminating, among other things, testing and training standards in medical institutions in the name of social justice.

Listen to the 9th & Congress podcast on Spotify.