Kerby Anderson

In previous columns and even in the interview he did with me, Dennis Prager documents how the Left ruins just about everything it touches. In the past, he has talked about how it has ruined university education, the arts, race relations, and free speech. His latest column adds science to that list and gives four examples. First, is the desire of science departments in universities throughout America that have declared their “intention to hire physicists, biologists and other scientists based on gender and race, not scientific expertise.” On my radio program, I’ve talked about the times when university departments even decided not to hire any professor in an academic discipline because no one of the specified gender or race applied. A second example he cites is the declaration by more than 1,000 doctors and other health care providers who ignored their previous warnings against public gatherings in order to give their approval to certain protests. They wrote: “As public health advocates, we do not condemn these gatherings (mass protests against racism) as risky for COVID-19 transmission. We support them as vital to the national public health.” Another example has been the complete rejection of any medical benefit to hydroxychloroquine and zinc in treating COVID-19. A drug used to treat lupus and rheumatoid arthritis was labelled dangerous. One of the most prestigious medical journals (The Lancet) dismissed the effectiveness of the treatment, until the editors were forced to retract the journal article calling it a “fabrication” and “a monumental fraud.” His last example comes from the American Psychological Association that argued that “traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful.” They also add that “socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage.” These four examples are a sad commentary on the state of science today.