Basic Science Denial In Medical School
While I am not a doctor or a scientist of even the most amateurish sort, I do understand some basic fundamentals of humanity that have apparently been forgotten by those teaching our future doctors. There is a basic hierarchy of immutable characteristics that until the last decade or so were not really subject to any serious dispute…
Human
Male or female
Race
Those were the basics and the latter two were how we used to identify crime suspects. I can change my hair color or shave off my beard but I cannot change the fact that I am a male and I am White. Every human being, with a very tiny number of genetic mutations, is born either male or female and has a racial and ethnic heritage that is measurable and verifiable. I have never sent in my DNA to be entered into a government database to be used against me later in a set-up, under the guise of outfits like 23andMe, but I already know from our family history that my father’s family came from Poland and my mother’s from Ireland. I cannot declare myself Swedish and make it true, much less saying I am Korean or Bantu. I don’t even need a test or a family tree to figure out that I am male, that is apparent every time I take a leak.
Saying I am a White male and nothing will ever change that would have warranted stares of confusion and probably some mockery for most of the last 1000 years, as it is a fact so self-evident that feeling the need to utter those words would have been akin to standing in a downpour and declaring that it looks like it might rain. For the entire history of modern medicine, that was such a patently obvious fact that it didn’t require anyone to point it out.
That is no longer the case.
It has never been truly possible to practice medicine in a perfectly neutral manner. Medical care has always been entangled with religion, with social issues and with politics, especially once government funded “insurance” became such an integral part of the medical system but now the scales are tipping dangerously as medicine focuses less on the science of medicine and more on the latest fads in sociology.
The latest case, this one close to home in Indiana…
The presentation teaches that “not everyone fits” onto the “established binarized sex as male/female,” and that there is evidence to suggest the existence of “a biological basis” for one’s gender identity separate from their sex.
It also refers to “man” and “woman” as “common gender types,” but adds, “These are oversimplifications and BOTH exist on a continuum.”
The presentation goes on to teach the difference between a cisgender person and a transgender person, suggests a timeline for how to care for a person with “a difference of sex development” from four years old to adulthood, and instructs on using the proper pronouns to identify a patient.
Medical education in Indiana is a little unique. In neighboring Ohio for example, medical schools are independent and affiliated with their host university, so Ohio State has a medical college and the University of Cincinnati has their own, as does the University of Toledo and Case Western. In Indiana all of the medical schools are under the umbrella of Indiana University so the medical school in West Lafayette is not the Purdue University School of Medicine but rather is the Indiana University School of Medicine, West Lafayette, even though it is on the campus of Purdue. The same is true in South Bend, where IU runs the medical school across the street from the campus of Notre Dame.
Anyway, this is kind of all over the “conservative” news sphere again. You can see some of the slides from the powerpoint presentation here: First-year Indiana University med students must take woke primer in basic human structure that says sex is non-binary and young patients should be groomed in gender theory, but what makes this all the more grotesque is that some of the slides are written as if the audience are high school freshman, not first year medical school students.
Working your ass off for four years as an undergrad so you can sit through a lecture featuring a “genderbread person”? While many of the slides are juvenile, some are just horrifying.
I carved out a couple of the slides.
At age 4 this presentation, presented as an “expert consensus document”, refers to providing information to that child who is generally incapable of even reading about sex and gender differences. By age 6, around first grade, they are being introduced to puberty. In other words, these small children are being indoctrinated, and dare I say groomed, to see their immutable sex characteristics as something you can change like a pair of socks.
This is not an advance in medical science, this is a regression to days when “doctors” practiced something more akin to voodoo. It replaces biological science based medicine with social sciences based “medicine” where motivations and feelings are as important, or more important, than actual medical outcomes. Sure the black surgeon botched the surgery and the patient died but at least their family will be comforted by knowing their loved one’s doctor was overcoming White supremacy.
Indiana is about as square, conservative and anti-“woke” as a state can get but even here our medical school system is infected with this bullshit. The more time medical schools waste on absolute anti-science garbage like this is less time they have to invest in actual medical training, not to mention teaching as fact stuff that is patently false and anti-science. Add in diversity quotas and preferential admissions and the end result are newly minted doctors that more frequently than ever are less qualified and more poorly trained than the generation before them, a reversal of what once was seen as the unstoppable progression of medical knowledge.
I know I bang this drum over and over, and it is probably repetitive, but I have some personal stake in this subject (as do you) and it also is a subject that has deeper impact on many normies than complaining about some woke foolishness in the sociology department. Not many people encounter someone who is engaged in professional sociology but all of us encounter doctors at some point and knowing that those doctors, especially younger doctors, have been taught using a curriculum that at least in part denies basic scientific facts and is instead increasingly founded in politics and social engineering is troubling to most people.
Cultural Marxism, neo-Bolshevism, anti-White radicalism, whatever term you use, is not only dangerous intellectually but also quite literally deadly and there is little hope that this trajectory will change any time soon.