Ian Kingsbury

Exposing faulty, biased, and ideologically motivated medical research. Powered by @donoharm.

[City Journal @CityJournal]

Scott Pelley was the plenary speaker at a conference where speakers (after completing a “land acknowledgment”) blatantly encouraged medical schools to racially discriminate in admissions processes—or, as one speaker put it, get students with the “right” skin color to apply.

[Ian Kingsbury @PeerReReview]

Scott Pelley represents the worst strain of journalism. He doesn't report reality so much as deliver what he wishes were true, or what he calculates his audience wants to hear. I happened to write about a revealing encounter in a piece for @CityJournal.

https://t.co/HId2uD5T2v

[Ian Kingsbury @PeerReReview]

Summary: Conservatives are evil and stupid. Surely their mistrust has nothing to do with our insistence that there are 72 genders or that it's ok to burn cities for racial justice during COVID but not ok to attend grandma's funeral.

https://t.co/qqI4yCXKV4

[Stanley Goldfarb @one1iron]

There is chutzpah and then there is this. The very idea that training programs would totally disrupt their schedules and workforce just to express their bias against minorities after they went to all the trouble to recruit them is beyond absurd, The chickens have come home to roost.

[Ian Kingsbury @PeerReReview]

My favorite brand of woke struggle session is the one where the wokes observe some inevitable consequence of a racist system they design and then blame everyone but themselves for the outcome.

Lower standards for admission=worse results, folks

[STAT @statnews]

Why are residency programs disciplining and dismissing trainees in a system funded to train them? https://t.co/yzx77oh8XL

[Ian Kingsbury @PeerReReview]

Apropos of discussions about peer review

[Ian Kingsbury @PeerReReview]

Do leaders in academic medicine understand that Supreme Court rulings aren’t just friendly suggestions? It’s genuinely hard to tell.

https://t.co/JpEmGxza9k

[Ian Kingsbury @PeerReReview]

That single data point (Idaho) also formed the basis of another junk study that purported to show a link between so-called "anti trans" legislation and suicide, as I wrote about in @CityJournal.
The research behind pediatric gender med is a house of cards.
https://t.co/PXuQoVjJXt

[SEGM @segm_ebm]

🚨A widely cited Trevor Project paper from 2 yrs ago concluded that state restrictions on youth gender transition increase youth suicide risk. But a new peer-reviewed reanalysis shows the signal came from a single state, Idaho—which had no such restrictions during the study. /1

[Jay P. Greene @jaypgreene]

I understand that people have reasons for wishing to continue discriminatory practices in education and hiring, but I can't accept how they abuse the authority of "science" to present junk research claiming that outcomes would improve if only that discrimination were allowed. 1/

[i/o @avidseries]

Who would have imagined a connection between the two? But this guy — this towering intellect — put the pieces together for us.

[Mollie @MZHemingway]

DOJ: By Its Own Admission, Yale Med School Illegally Discriminates Against White, Asian Applicants https://t.co/ol3STa0dUn

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Are White women the primary beneficiaries of affirmative action?

That's a real claim that's commonly advanced by journalists, and the claim has gone so far that it's even made its way into academic publications and policy.

But the claim is completely false🧵

[Ian Kingsbury @PeerReReview]

55 MICRO-AGGRESSIONS, 55 MISGENDERINGS, 55 DOG WHISTLES, 55 TRAUMAS, 55 SAFE SPACE VIOLATIONS

[Gregory Lyakhov @GregoryLyakhov]

UW nursing school offers gift cards to report ‘bias’ in coursework

The University of Washington School of Nursing is offering students gift cards to report course materials they believe contain 'bias' as part of a school initiative designed to align coursework with 'anti-racist and DEI principles.'
https://t.co/t27BxHaPhb

[Ian Kingsbury @PeerReReview]

@drterrysimpson Yale previously admitted that its current racial composition would be impossible without racial preference. So are you saying that Yale was lying then or are you saying that Yale is lying now?

[Ian Kingsbury @PeerReReview]

Commentary: Hiltzik attack on Justice Dept shows he
A) doesn’t understand research
B) doesn’t understand or is indifferent to the Equal Protection Clause

[Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm]

Commentary: Justice Dept. attack on UCLA and other med schools shows it has no idea what makes a good doctor https://t.co/6KAt0jSiOX

[Do No Harm @donoharm]

Must patients be matched to doctors of the same race to receive the best care? The evidence says no. 🚫

A widely-cited 2020 PNAS study claiming black newborns fare better with black physicians has been debunked. Now, proponents of the concordance hypothesis are pointing to three other studies but those don't hold up under scrutiny either:

🔬 An Oakland experiment showed no difference in patient willingness when race was the only variable tested.

📊 A Military Health System study never directly measured concordance and its own data undermines its conclusion.

📋 A patient survey study fixated on a single question out of 10, in a single demographic group, using a measure that falls apart when the full data is examined.

National surveys show the vast majority of black patients themselves express no preference for a same-race physician. They want what every patient wants: competence, thoroughness, and quality care.

Find the link to the full analysis here: https://t.co/4fJaFE13FG

[Ian Kingsbury @PeerReReview]

@StopShoutBlog @SusannahStonhse I am responsible for the arguments others make? Bizarre.

[Ian Kingsbury @PeerReReview]

"We need a diverse physician workforce (to) address health disparities and improve the health of patients...It will be interesting to see...whether this will turn into a case that will pressure test that line of argument."

Go ahead and pressure test it. The evidence is clear.

[STAT @statnews]

The DOJ sent a letter to Yale School of Medicine, alleging it was illegally discriminating against applicants who are not Black or Hispanic, following a similar missive sent to the UCLA medical school. https://t.co/wvW3oFe8z0

[Ian Kingsbury @PeerReReview]

@SusannahStonhse Show me where I said or even insinuated that admitted students at Yale are unqualified. Also, if you want to pose as someone arguing in good faith about bigotry, I'd recommend not reposting Marge Greene and Maine Kampf.

[Do No Harm @donoharm]

Two public universities are facing backlash after refusing to release course materials in response to public records requests, claiming syllabi are “copyrighted” or “trade secrets.” 🔍📄

The requests, filed by the American Accountability Foundation (AAF), seek materials from courses related to gender, sexuality, and health. 

AAF cites concerns that some curricula may include content that promotes Marxism, Queer theory, or violate state laws restricting DEI-related requirements.

Both universities are legally obligated to comply with public records laws. Their claims of intellectual property and trade secrets appear to be an attempt to avoid transparency. 

With a June 12 deadline approaching, the question remains: will these institutions follow the law and provide the requested materials?

Read more about the requests and legal challenges here: https://t.co/orN0gsiEpd