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AMA jumps the Woke Shark, introduces Medspeak + Psychoactive meds convert to leftism? - C C - Nov 2, 2021
Will psychoactive drugs really bring about conversion to leftism as researchers believe?
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-11228-post-46953.html#pid46953
Jesse Singal: The AMA jumps the Woke Shark, introduces Medspeak
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2021/11/01/jesse-singal-the-ama-jumps-the-woke-shark-introduces-medspeak/
INTRO (Jerry Coyne): The American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Psychological Association are now beyond redemption since they’ve decided to steep their organizations in “progressive” ideology and also to issue fulsome apologies for their past behavior. But this I found unbelievable: tweets sent by Jesse Singal and forwarded by Luana. The AMA is policing language to conform to an extreme Leftist view of the world. Welcome to Nineteen Eighty-Four‘s Medspeak:
The American Medical Association has just released "Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts," a strange document that calls for doctors to insert progressive politics into even plain statements of fact. https://t.co/bmOdFsQQLf .... pic.twitter.com/xRg5xXXWpi
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) October 30, 2021
I’ll just expand the text:
What the AMA is doing here is taking statements of fact and then politicizing them by ascribing those facts to various debatable ideological positions. In other words, they’re adding irrelevant ideological material in service of their viewpoint. This of course stifles any discussion. But since when is the AMA supposed to police language?
I’ll add a few more of Singal’s tweets from that thread; you can enlarge the text for yourself. There are 15 tweets in the thread... (MORE)