Canceling Dr. Brauchner: JAMA bows to twittermob

Yesterday I criticized the mob coming for one of the editors of JAMA: Dr. Braunchner.

like the Red Guard, the twittermobs and the professional activists are now fat with money from corporations trying to appease them.

Even medical editors are being removed for their benign comments: Notice the NYTimes report uses language more suited to propaganda or the editorial page?  

Who ordered his removal? A "committee" of the AMA.....

the AMA claimed they responded to "complaints" from people who were hurt and objected, but I suspect it would be more accurate to say "complaints from activists who monitor what you say and then pounce so they can take over".

This is manipulation, and speaks poorly for academic freedom. 

The original podcast is here, since it has been removed from the good doctor's website.

But you can hear it on the Washington Times article LINK

Now what you need to know is that Dr. Brauchner is not a social justice commentator trying to make the world politically correct: he is a scientist, and his podcasts discuss medical issues for regular practicing physicians, most of them about the Covid epidemic. And you can go and look at his Website.LINK

Here is a list from his RSS feed:

and a podcast in late March does have an activist discussing racism in medicine.

so it's not like the subject hasn't been discussed by activists.

But the irony is that Dr. Brauchner did not utter the comment for which he is being fired: It was another physician, Dr. Livingstone, 

Since the NYTimes is behind a pay wall, I found the UKGuardian has the details: LINK

The comments at issue were made by Dr Ed Livingston in February, in conversation with Dr Mitch Katz on a podcast entitled “Structural Racism for Doctors – What is It?”

“Structural racism is an unfortunate term,” Livingston said. “Personally, I think taking racism out of the conversation will help. Many people like myself are offended by the implication that we are somehow racist.”

A tweet promoting the podcast said: “No physician is racist, so how can there be structural racism in healthcare? An explanation of the idea by doctors for doctors.”

Actually, as I have posted in the past, it's a cultural problem more than race per se: And the structural problem is indeed there: but the point is that it is "structural": more a problem of the money grubbing medical industrial complex than it is of ordinary physicians, who unlike 50 years ago who would have their own practice, now have to cope with paperwork and rules that steals precious time from caring for the sick. 

You don't start accusing a person who sacrificed years of their lives studying and works long hours to care for the sick and call him or her names like "racist" in a podcast, or they will turn your message off.

and that is why he said that calling people racist was not the way to discuss the problem.

Ah, but don't dare protest that smearing 600 thousand physicians as racist is a bad idea: Because his comments (taken out of context of course) hurt their feelings

Speaking to the New York Times, Blackstock said: “I think [the podcast] caused an incalculable amount of pain and trauma to Black physicians and patients. And I think it’s going to take a long time for the journal to heal that pain.”

Really? As if they listened to the podcast. One does wonder how many people actually heard the discussion? Most practicing physicians are too busy to listen to social justice discussions, which seem to be a bit absurd when one confronts death and disease every day.

as for the protests: no it was not by those who listened to the podcast, nor was it from members of the AMA, or practicing physicians>

It was an organized protest:

Nearly 7,000 people signed a Change.org petition calling for Jama to “stop perpetuating racism in medicine”.

Dirty little secret: These twitter mobs are organized, and all it takes is two minutes to sign a petition and feel good with yourself.

 and as in other victims of the twittermob, apologizing and removing the podcast did not appease the blood lust of the twittermob.

and now they will pressure JAMA to become more "inclusive" in their board and editors, as if expertise and knowledge and clinical experience doesn't matter: Only those who conform to the politically correct line will be the gate keepers, meaning more SJW friendly articles taking up space, and no proper discussion of actual medical opinions.

And will you trust a medical journal whose experts are chosen by race and politically correct opinions rather than those who actually can interpret statistics and have knowledge and experience of treating patients/

?............

the American Immigration Council notes that one quarter of docs are foreign trained docs, mostly immigrants like my husband. And they often work in rural or minority communities.

So when these activists make it a "evil white man" problem, they are not noticing all those Pakistani/ Indian/ Iranian/ Egyptian/ African/ Filipino doctors.