Over the past decade, the climate change movement has morphed into a social and political juggernaut that has weakened and exploited America’s institutions. Its success stemmed from two strengths: it fused science with ideology, creating a quasi-religious fervor — think Just Stop Oil or Extinction Rebellion.
The climate movement also won over the legacy media, which thrives on fear, sensationalism, and a bias toward statism. This alliance resonated with those favoring bigger government and tapped into a primal fear of looming catastrophe — a narrative amplified by widespread ignorance of energy and climate systems. For power-hungry politicians, climate catastrophism became their golden ticket to more influence and control.
Backed by legacy media cheerleaders and an academia dominated by Left-leaning statists, the movement snowballed, especially among the young.  Recent debates and polling shifts suggest some improvement in public understanding, but the damage has been substantial. 
The climate change story, however, rests on shaky scientific and moral ground. The climate has always fluctuated — warming and cooling in cycles — and always will. CO₂, while a greenhouse gas, is a minor player compared to water vapor and solar activity — not the villain it’s painted to be. History shows species thrive in warmer periods and struggle in colder ones.
As Bjorn Lomborg points out, over the past century, climate-related deaths have <a href="https://x.com/BjornLomborg/status/1885310861264199688" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plummeted by 99%,</a> with cold still claiming more lives than heat. The science simply doesn’t support the panic.
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Your risk of dying from climate-related disasters dropped 99% since 1920. 
This is because richer societies are much more resilient to disasters 
Read more in my peer-reviewed article: <a href="https://t.co/CC0h7JKIKv">https://t.co/CC0h7JKIKv</a> <a href="https://t.co/hQPpXF2AS2">pic.twitter.com/hQPpXF2AS2</a>
&mdash; Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) <a href="https://twitter.com/BjornLomborg/status/1885310861264199688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 31, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Morally, it’s worse. Billions of people <a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/12-06-2024-progress-on-basic-energy-access-reverses-for-first-time-in-a-decade?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lack access to affordable, reliable energy</a> — a right most Americans enjoy as part of the fortunate one billion. Denying them the cheapest energy sources available, all in pursuit of carbon cuts, is the real injustice. The post-election pivot to prioritize energy access and human well-being over obsessive emissions reductions is a welcome return to reason.
This moral blindness is often cloaked in self-righteous virtue. The climate movement preaches sacrifice while demanding subsidies, mandates, and central planning. It calls for collective responsibility while punishing prosperity. It seeks compliance, not progress; narrative control, not truth. In true Orwellian fashion, freedom becomes pollution, and servitude is sold as sustainability.
The damage wrought by this movement was magnified by the erosion of institutional integrity. In the corporate world, where I operate, our duty is clear: maximize value for investors, as Milton Friedman argued. Property rights demand it. Yet leaders have grown lax, allowing political Trojan horses like ESG and DEI to infiltrate and hijack companies — and their shareholder’s property — for ideological ends. Banks and firms fell in line, abandoning their core mission. The pursuit of shareholder value was replaced with pandering to fashionable causes, often disconnected from performance or accountability.
Academia has suffered similar rot, even my alma mater, the University of Texas. Take the lazy use of terms like “green,” “clean,” and “sustainable” to describe solar and wind energy. Dig into the facts: mining rare earths and manufacturing these technologies are dirty processes, often tied to child labor in Africa, and far from sustainable without heavy subsidies. Describing them as ‘green’ or ‘clean’ is more than misleading, it’s a lie. Our institutions should have been bulwarks against this coercion, but they buckled. The guardians of inquiry and meritocracy became mouthpieces for activist orthodoxy.
The 2024 election and its aftermath signal that we’ve weathered the climate movement’s storm. Now what? At Atlas Energy Solutions, our chairman’s “<a href="https://www.atlas.energy/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chairmans-Letter-on-ESG.pdf">Who We Are</a>” letter laid it out: we stick to the Friedman Doctrine, building a fortress against political fads and focusing solely on value creation. We’ve aimed to lead by example, and it’s heartening to see others doing the same.
Business and politics don’t mix — nor should academia and politics. Universities owe students free inquiry and critical thinking, not indoctrination. It’s time to purge ideological agendas and revive institutional excellence.
Capitalism — real capitalism — requires moral clarity. It is not a tool of oppression, but a system that rewards value creation and voluntary exchange. The climate agenda, as it stands, undermines both. To restore institutional discipline, we must reaffirm what made this country exceptional: a commitment to liberty, property rights, free markets, and the truth. That’s the only path forward. That’s how we liberate American energy — and the human potential it powers.
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Bud Brigham is an energy entrepreneur from Austin, Texas, and chairman of Brigham Exploration, Brigham Royalties, Langford Energy Partners, and Atlas Energy Solutions (NYSE: AEISI). He is also a founding board member of the American Energy Association, a trade organization representing companies that unabashedly support free markets to liberate American energy.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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An affiliate of Pennsylvania State University was hit with a federal civil rights complaint on Tuesday alleging that scholarship opportunities discriminated against white and male students on the basis of their race and sex.
The Equal Opportunity Project hit the Pennsylvania College of Technology, an affiliate of the Pennsylvania State University, over 12 different scholarships, including some that require applicants to be “a racial or ethnic minority,” “female,” or considered “previously marginalized” on account of their identities.
“Creating educational opportunities based on race, color, national origin, or sex violates Titles VI and IX of the Civil Rights Act, as well as Pennsylvania law,” said William A. Jacobson, the founder of the Equal Protection Project. “Such race-and sex-based scholarships also violate Penn Tech&#8217;s own non-discrimination policies. We are asking Penn Tech to live up to the law and its own rules, and remove the discriminatory eligibility barriers it has erected.”
The university’s Cahir Family Renaissance Scholarship only accepts applicants who “have been previously marginalized by racial, ethnic, socio-economic, gender, or other adversities,” while the “Start to Finish Minority Scholarship” tells applicants that they must be “a racial or ethnic minority.” Other scholarships named in the federal complaint only accept female applicants.
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“Racial, ethnic, and sex discrimination is wrong and unlawful no matter which race, ethnicity, or sex is targeted or benefits. All applicants are entitled to equal treatment without regard to race, color, national origin, or sex,” Jacobson charged. “It does not matter what schools call it — &#8216;anti-racism&#8217; or &#8216;diversity, equity, and inclusion,&#8217; or something else — what matters is that no measure of discrimination based on race, color, or national origin is permitted.”
The complaint comes after the Trump administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-investigating-more-than-50-universities-for-anti-white-anti-asian-discrimination">launched investigations</a> into more than 50 universities that allegedly engaged in anti-white and anti-Asian discrimination, including Vanderbilt, Yale, New York University, Notre Dame, Duke, and Georgetown.
Most of the 52 institutions under investigation face scrutiny over their involvement in the PhD Project, which the Education Department described as “an organization that purports to provide doctoral students with insights into obtaining a Ph.D. and networking opportunities, but limits eligibility based on the race of participants.” Other colleges are under investigation for allegedly awarding discriminatory, race-based scholarships.

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Ten scientists filed their opening demand against a major academic publisher after they say it retracted their work exposing the dangers of the abortion pill for political reasons.
In a recently filed <a href="https://assaultonscience.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/02/2025.02.21-SvS-Arbitration-Demand_Redacted.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arbitration demand</a>, ten Charlotte Lozier-affiliated scholars say that Sage Publications discriminated against them and violated its contractual obligations when it retracted three of their studies, including two on the abortion drug Mifepristone. They want a judge to rule that the retractions were erroneous and that they were discriminated against based on their beliefs.
One of the now-retracted <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23333928211053965" target="_blank" rel="noopener">studies</a>, published November 9, 2021, found that the rate of emergency room visits following chemical abortions had spiked 500% from 2002-2015, according to Medicaid claims data. Another one of the studies, published May 20, 2022, <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23333928221103107" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analyzed the likelihood</a> of recurring emergency room visits for women who did not disclose to doctors that they had a chemical abortion.
These two studies were <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.370067/gov.uscourts.txnd.370067.137.0_19.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cited</a> in Federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-in-texas-suspends-fda-approval-of-abortion-pill-used-in-up-to-half-of-abortions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decision</a> to suspend FDA approval of mifepristone.
“Sage’s reasons for retracting the Articles were pretextual. Sage did not point to anything that could justify the rare and severe measure of retraction under prevailing professional guidelines, such as a major error or falsification,” the scholars&#8217; opening arbitration demand filed by lawyers with the Alliance Defending Freedom and Consovoy McCarthy says.
The February 2024 retractions, which occurred weeks before the Supreme Court heard arguments on the availability of abortion pills, were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/completely-unjustified-medical-journal-retracts-major-studies-critical-of-abortion-pill-ahead-of-supreme-court-clash">first reported</a> by The Daily Wire.
The lawyers argue that Sage breached its contract with the scholars, was guilty of negligence, and violated California&#8217;s civil rights law.
“The combined reputational and economic harm to the Authors from these unlawful actions is enormous and incalculable,” the filing adds. “Because of Sage’s retractions, the Authors and their research have been attacked by the media, by other authors, and even by a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Authors have had new research proposals inexplicably turned away by other journals that now fear associating with them. The Authors have years—even decades—of fruitful research ahead of them, but they are now being treated as pariahs.”
Dr. James Studnicki, one of the authors on the papers, was also kicked off the editorial board of Sage’s Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology journal, months before the retractions actually took place. The filing says that this was done for discriminatory purposes.
For resolution, the scholars say that a judge should rule that the scholars and Studnicki were discriminated against, that Sage violated its contractual agreement, a declaration that the retractions were erroneous, and monetary damages.
The scholars first filed their lawsuit against Sage in October 2024 in California. Sage did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Education</a> (DOE) has launched a discrimination investigation into the University of Rhode Island over its use of race and sex-based scholarship programs.
The investigation from the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) comes after the Equal Protection Project (EPP) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-of-rhode-island-hit-with-civil-rights-complaint-over-discriminatory-scholarships">filed a federal complaint</a> against the university over scholarship offerings that excluded would-be applicants on the basis of their race or sex.
“OCR will investigate whether the University discriminates on the basis of race, color, or national origin by administering the scholarships” and will also investigate “whether the University discriminates on the basis of sex through other scholarship programs,” the DOE said in a letter.
The announcement comes as the diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda has embedded itself throughout higher education, oftentimes informing the selection criteria for scholarship programs.
The DOE’s announcement that it is investigating the university was a direct response to the complaint filed by the EPP, which highlighted specific scholarships and their selection criteria.
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“The discrimination in scholarships at URI is shocking in its breadth, far exceeding any other university we have seen at the Equal Protection Project,” the organization’s founder, William A. Jacobson, told The Daily Wire at the time of the complaint. “URI does not even try to hide the discriminatory barriers, they are all detailed on the URI website.”
One of the scholarships that will now be subject to the investigation is the Bank of America scholarship, which is designated for “two four-year scholarships for minority students, preferably one male and one female.” The Citizens Bank Scholarship, which is reserved for “minority students with financial need who live in Rhode Island,” will also be subject to the investigation.
The two are joined by the Dr. Robert L. Carothers Student Leadership Endowment, which will also be investigated and provides &#8220;annual scholarships to URI students of color who provide leadership in broad university programs.”
The EPP highlighted 51 different scholarships in the complaint to the DOE, which explained that it is starting an investigation into 35 of the scholarships while dismissing the others that were the subject of the complaint.

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The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) moved to restrict and remove information from its website after a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mount-rushmore-of-dei-how-a-major-academic-association-is-destroying-medicine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report revealed</a> its full-throated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. 
Last week, Do No Harm, an organization committed to de-politicizing medicine, published an <a href="https://donoharmmedicine.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Activism-over-Meritocracy-How-the-AAMC-is-Corrupting-Medical-Education-with-Endless-DEI-Ideology.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exhaustive report</a> detailing how the AAMC wielded its influence and prestige to push DEI and other leftist policies. The AAMC facilitates much of medical education in the United States and administers the MCAT, the test students take to get into medical school. 
After the Do No Harm report dropped, the AAMC this week pulled information from its website on grants it had received, and restricted access to information about a database that tracked the race and sex of medical personnel. 
Do No Harm Senior Director of Programs Laura Morgan, who authored the report on the AAMC, told The Daily Wire that it was strange for the organization to remove the information.  
“Considering their laser focus on all things DEI, it&#8217;s curious that the AAMC would take down a web page that described the federal and private grants it receives, especially when it contains information on programs that are DEI-focused,” Morgan said.  
“Based on the organization&#8217;s past actions and initiatives, the AAMC is proud of the work they do to promote divisive ideologies throughout medical education; so why not continue to let the public see how much money they are receiving from the federal government and private foundations?” she asked. 
The <a href="https://www.aamc.org/about-us/grants-and-awards-received" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grant information</a>, which was <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20241210122732/https:/www.aamc.org/about-us/grants-and-awards-received" target="_blank" rel="noopener">archived</a> and featured in Do No Harm&#8217;s report, shows that the AAMC has received millions of dollars from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 
The CDC was to provide $4,539,543 over four years to support “strategies to build confidence in COVID-19 vaccines among health care personnel and communities that are disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.” Other <a href="https://www.aamc.org/about-us/aamc-awards/aamc-health-professions-education-curricular-innovations-grant-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">information</a> on the partnership with the CDC can be found throughout the AAMC website. 
A separate grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation gave the AAMC $1 million annually to “support technical assistance and direction to help increase diversity in health fields.”
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The page also showed that the AAMC had a contract with the NIH over its “Faculty Roster,” which tracks the demographic information of faculty members at medical schools in the United States. The AAMC restricted a separate <a href="https://www.aamc.org/media/35651/download?attachment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">web page</a> on the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240721071848/https:/www.aamc.org/media/35651/download?attachment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Faculty Website</a> after the Do No Harm report. The current link to the page now says “Sorry, you do not have permission to access this page.”
“The records contained in the FAMOUS [Faculty Administrative Management Online User System] platform track each individual faculty member’s history of appointments, rank, and tenure status,” Do No Harm noted in its report. “Institutions with the same login credentials can pull reports from the database that specifically include sex and race/ethnicity information.”
The AAMC did not return requests for comment on why the information on the grants was scrubbed or why it had restricted information on the faculty tracker.
Throughout its website, the AAMC makes clear its embrace of DEI ideology. It lists “diversity, inclusion, and equity in health care” as one of its four primary mission areas and says that DEI “in medical education and the physician workforce is critical for everyone’s health.”
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Unlike their coastal counterparts, colleges in what&#8217;s known as &#8220;SEC country&#8221; have long been viewed as a safe-haven from left-wing politics. That, along with lower tuition costs, lively Greek life, and a robust football culture, is why “the number of Northerners going to Southern public schools went up 84% over the past two decades,&#8221; as <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/sorry-harvard-everyone-wants-to-go-to-college-in-the-south-now-235d7934">The Wall Street Journal</a> pointed out earlier this year.
But according to a new report, even SEC schools have fallen prey to the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) movement.
The report, from<a href="https://criticalrace.org/"> Critical Race Training in Education</a> and shared exclusively with The Daily Wire, says &#8220;the SEC itself has been infected by &#8216;racial equity&#8217; and &#8216;social justice,'&#8221; while &#8220;SEC Universities and their Athletic Departments are riddled with DEI.&#8221; Kemberlee Kaye, managing editor of Critical Race Training in Education, says that the prevalence of DEI in the SEC shows just how hard it will be to defeat the left-wing ideology.
“Just because you are in a red state or a state that has taken action against DEI in higher ed, you&#8217;re also not immune from the ill effects of DEI,&#8221; Kaye told The Daily Wire. &#8220;DEI has successfully permeated every single level of our culture.&#8221;
Including, it seems, SEC football.
In 2021, the SEC — home to football powerhouses like Alabama, LSU, and Auburn — adopted a policy intended to engineer the racial demographics of athletic leadership at its member institutions.
The <a href="https://www.secsports.com/news/2021/07/sec-adds-hiring-and-development-initiative">policy</a> requires institutions to “employ intentional efforts to identify and consider candidates from historically underrepresented minority groups.&#8221; The SEC also established a training program addressing &#8220;diversity in hiring&#8221; and implicit bias &#8220;for the athletics directors and senior staff of member institutions concerning and addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion in athletics.”
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SEC member schools have followed the conference&#8217;s lead. The University of Georgia&#8217;s Athletic Association now employs a DEI director, and members of the University of Arkansas athletic department must take quarterly courses on &#8220;microagressions&#8221; and similar topics.
As the Critical Race Training in Education report notes, the SEC&#8217;s embrace of DEI could have wide-ranging implications.
&#8220;During the 2023 Fiscal Year, the SEC brought in a combined $852.5 million of revenue,&#8221; the report notes. &#8220;This money brings influence. The conference does not only influence its associated schools, it also has the power to flex its power over a much broader audience.&#8221; The report goes on to note how the SEC successfully pressured Mississippi into taking Confederate symbols out of its flag. Should the SEC put similar pressure on states to embrace DEI initiatives, it could counteract red state efforts to ban the woke ideology.
&#8220;DEI is part of an all-out assault on our culture and we must engage in the war if we are to win,” Kaye said. “No part of our culture, arts, or entertainment can be ceded to this pernicious ideology if there is to be any hope of pushing back against DEI.&#8221;
Nowhere is this clearer than the University of Georgia&#8217;s decision to hire Courtney Gay as Assistant Athletic Director for Inclusive Excellence and Strategic Engagement. The university first announced her hiring in a <a href="https://georgiadogs.com/news/2020/12/7/general-courtney-gay-named-ugaaa-assistant-athletic-director-for-diversity-equity-and-inclusion">blog post</a> in 2020, which explained that Gay “helped us navigate some very challenging conversations regarding race, identity, and belonging.” Gay <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/courtney-a-gay-ph-d-150a639">writes</a> on her LinkedIn profile that she has “conducted extensive research on the intersection of sport and social justice” and boasts a “successful track record in diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
Nor are the Bulldogs alone in embracing DEI. At the University of Arkansas, members of the athletic department take part in trainings on various DEI-related concepts, including microaggressions and implicit bias. “​​This effort is aimed at promoting <a href="https://arkansasrazorbacks.com/hogs-united/#pillars">education, advocacy, and action</a> in the areas of diversity and inclusive excellence,” a <a href="https://arkansasrazorbacks.com/hogs-united/">description</a> of the program reads.
The quarterly trainings include “Safe Zone Training, Microaggression Awareness Sessions, Implicit/Unconscious Bias Awareness Sessions, Confronting and Combating -Isms.”
The University of Kentucky, meanwhile, funds a grant titled the <a href="https://uknow.uky.edu/student-news/inclusive-excellence-program-now-accepting-2023-student-grant-proposals">Inclusive Excellence Student Program</a> through its Office for Institutional Diversity. “The Inclusive Excellence Program will fund grants of up to $15,000 for creative diversity programming ideas,” the institution <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240208183021/https:/oid.uky.edu/inclusive-excellence-grants-awards-and-book-clubs">explains</a>. The university spent over $36,000 in the fall of 2023 alone to fund the grants, which included a “<a href="https://appalachiancenter.as.uky.edu/march-toward-inclusion-event-series">march toward inclusion</a>” and a presentation called “Beyond the Veil: An Exploration of Muslims in Healthcare.”
The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has a <a href="https://cssj.utk.edu/divisions/critical-race-collective/">Center for the Study of Social Justice</a>, complete with a “Critical Race Collective,” described as “a collection of researchers, teachers, and scholars who strive to bring a critical race theoretical perspective to the University of Tennessee.”
“We define critical race scholarship broadly, but maintain that a continuing effort to dismantle institutional/structural racism requires an intentional program of action that confronts racism, prejudice, and discrimination at multiple levels and in a variety of sociocultural settings,” the publicly-funded university’s website reads. “Members of the Critical Race Collective adhere to the five central tenets of Critical Race Theory.”
The collective of 37 faculty contends that “racism is a central component of American life” and believes that the “University of Tennessee is a crucial space to engage in critical race scholarship, pedagogy, and social justice activism.”

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The University of California San Francisco School of Medicine is hosting a continuing education course for doctors run by a left-wing activist who said that “white people are psychopaths” because of their “evolutionary history.”
<a href="https://www.ucsfcme.com/2025/MMC25096C/info.html">The course</a>, which costs $575 per attendee and is titled “Understanding the Roots of Racism and Bias: Anti-Blackness, and Its Links to Whiteness, White Racism, Privilege, and Power,” will be administered by DEI consultant and anti-white activist Dante King. King previously gave a speech at UCSF titled “diagnosing whiteness,” in which he claimed that “whites are psychopaths” because of their “evolutionary history.”
&#8220;Whites are psychopaths and their behavior represents an underlying, biologically transmitted proclivity with roots deep in their evolutionary history,” King said.
“How many of you can see the proclivity that evolved deep within the evolutionary history of Whiteness by show of hands? How many of you could see it? Some people are sitting here, ‘Oh no, I don’t want to raise my hand,’ that’s called denial.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/UCSF?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UCSF</a> invited Dante King to speak on &#8220;Diagnosing Whiteness.&#8221;
He claims that &#8220;whites are psychopaths&#8221; and that white people &#8220;have it written in the law you can rape black women.&#8221; He also makes excuses for black teenagers who commit violent crimes.
This is the modern university. <a href="https://t.co/EzVlliZPR9">pic.twitter.com/EzVlliZPR9</a>
— YAF (@yaf) <a href="https://twitter.com/yaf/status/1755993038545977827?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
“I’m not seeking agreement from white people at all. I don’t prioritize whiteness or white people,” he went on to say, also claiming that “anti-blackness is … the foundation of all white American institutions.”
A representative for King did not respond to a media inquiry asking if he stood by his comments.
King&#8217;s course counts for Continuing Education Credit, which physicians are <a href="https://www.boardvitals.com/blog/cme-requirements-by-state/">required to obtain</a> in order to maintain their licenses. The <a href="https://www.ucsfcme.com/2025/MMC25096C/info.html">course&#8217;s</a> objectives are for participants to “understand racism as psychological, sociological, and legal, as the main property and function of government, governance, and culture” and “develop individual and organizational anti-racist strategies and practices.”
The DEI agenda has been embedded in the medical field through the push for “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doctors-must-do-equity-training-to-keep-license-in-washington-state-under-new-law">health equity</a>,” which presupposes that discrepancies between the rates at which different racial groups experience health complications are due to racism.
Attendees of the February course will be taught how to “begin thinking about anti-racist processes, policies, and programs to lead actionable change” and “develop awareness and make connections about institutional, structural, systemic, systematic, and interpersonal racism (as White supremacy culture and anti-Blackness culture).”
Dr. Jared Ross, a Senior Fellow at <a href="https://donoharmmedicine.org">Do No Harm</a>, told The Daily Wire why he believes the upcoming course is so detrimental to the medical field.
“It is disheartening to see UC San Francisco, a taxpayer-funded state institution, promoting racism to doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals under the guise of continuing medical education,&#8221; Ross told The Daily Wire. &#8220;This 16-hour course has nothing to do with providing excellent medical care. Instead, it uses debunked pseudoscientific research to promote radical ideologies such as implicit bias, racial justice, and social equity.”
“This course encourages racial segregation, erodes patient-physician trust, and degrades the rigor of medical education by taking the focus away from the individual patient and instead defining people by immutable characteristics.”
King&#8217;s most recent work appears to indicate that he is doubling down on his past inflammatory claims. King is behind a <a href="https://www.diagnosingwhitenessandantiblackness.com/">docuseries</a> called “Diagnosing Whiteness and Anti-Blackness” that focuses on “White Psychopathology, Collective Psychosis &amp; Trauma In America.” Episode one of the 10 part series is called “<a href="https://www.diagnosingwhitenessandantiblackness.com/episode01">Whiteness is Delusional,</a>” and it describes whites as both &#8220;psychopathic&#8221; and &#8220;sociopathic.&#8221;
The episode description explains that King and his fellow activists “unpack how White racism and anti-Blackness work to the advantage of White people, portraying them as psychopathic, sociopathic, immoral, and delusional in the context of American society.”
<a href="https://www.diagnosingwhitenessandantiblackness.com/episode06">Episode six</a> of the series cites “a lack of impulse control” as one of the “key factors that explain White behavior” and argues that “cultural whiteness” can be described through a “new clinical term” that he calls “Malignant Diabolical Psychopathy.”
“None of this should surprise us coming from Dante King, who is well known for his racist diatribes,&#8221; Ross said. “UC San Francisco would be better served to focus on teaching evidence-based medicine.&#8221;
UCSF did not respond to a request for comment.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mount-rushmore-of-dei-how-a-major-academic-association-is-destroying-medicine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">academic association</a> that facilitates medical education in the United States pushed for schools across the country to embed diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives into all aspects of their work and to “institutionalize allyship.&#8221; 
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), which works with 171 accredited medical schools in the United States and Canada, hosted a webinar Thursday on “Allyship” featuring instructors from across the country talking about how to embed DEI into their organizations. 
The webinar was the latest in the AAMC’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-racism webinar series. Presenters spoke about implementing DEI in all aspects of an institution through so-called “equity champions” and talked about how “trans men” were useful “allies.”
The AAMC administers the MCAT, a test used for admission to medical colleges, and sponsors the accrediting body for allopathic medical schools. 
AAMC Director of Gender Equity Initiatives Diana Lautenberger said Thursday that the latest webinar was focused on “how do you really institutionalize allyship at your organization” and ”what allyship looks like and sounds like at the institutional level.”
The webinar came after Do No Harm, an organization that pushes to de-politicize medicine, released an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mount-rushmore-of-dei-how-a-major-academic-association-is-destroying-medicine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exhaustive report</a> on how the AAMC pushes a leftist policy agenda. The report exposed how the AAMC is committed to DEI and so-called anti-racism efforts in addition to pushing leftwing theories about race and supporting transgender procedures on children. 
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“As people outside the bubble of academia become more aware of the endless number of DEI initiatives that the AAMC has spent tens of millions of dollars to push instead of promoting science-based medical education, the public’s trust will dwindle,” Do No Harm Senior Director of Programs Laura Morgan told The Daily Wire.
“People want competent physicians who are dedicated to improving the health of their patients and I&#8217;m sure the leadership of the AAMC would want the same; a physician that is able to accurately address their urgent medical needs, rather than being an ‘equity champion.”
One of the webinar presenters was Andreá Williams, an English professor who runs Ohio State University’s The Women’s Place, which pushes women-focused programming at the university. During the webinar, she talked about the “Advocates and Allies” program she had started. 
Williams defined allies as “men or nonbinary people who feel comfortable in a setting focused on men’s transformational learning participate in a facilitated session to become active proponents of equity.” 
She said that “trans men,” women who identify as men, were sometimes the best “allies” for women. 
“But we do see that there are a few of our, for example, trans men advocates who are often some of the strongest speakers in being able to address gender equity because they talk about the different experiences they have in presenting as male and female,” Williams said. 
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She said that the allies program was not about getting men to help women, but “to redistribute the labor of working towards gender equity.”
Williams also said that treating everyone the same was not acceptable.
“There are a lot of times that people will say, ‘of course I’m not biased, I’m not prejudiced, I treat everyone the same.’ And while that is laudable, it is often inadequate to actually be able to address historic disadvantages and disparities,” she said. 
Williams said that a way to get institutions to adopt ally programs was by getting executive support, noting that she had built in operating funds for her ally program by including them in operating costs for the Women’s Center. 
Another webinar speaker was Erin Stampp, who works in the DEI office of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Stampp began by making a land acknowledgment, but didn’t read through the whole thing for &#8220;times sake.&#8221;
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Stampp talked about her “equity champions” program, saying the goal was “to build institutional capacity for advancing racial equity and justice.” She added that there were 46 active “equity champions” in 22 out of 29 of her university’s departments. 
She said that a person can only be an “ally” if the supposedly oppressed person allows them to be. 
“I like to say practicing allies, as we kind of know, we don’t deem or claim ourselves to be allies,” she said. “We practice to be allies and then the people that we’re looking to be allies to can give us the title of ally.”
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Acknowledging a recent “backlash” to DEI, Stampp said that “we know how important it is to build in accountability and sustainability.” She said that DEI needed “to be embedded in everything, and that takes time and resources.”
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Morgan with Do No Harm said that the AAMC&#8217;s programing was a waste of time that didn&#8217;t advance medical knowledge. 
“The absurd messaging being pushed out by the AAMC via the schools and faculty members they partner with has no professional development value,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Medical experts hearing an activist speak on ‘intersectional awareness’ or the latest attempts, by speakers like Andrea Williams, to rebrand DEI related language once ‘the public&#8217;s awareness about diversity and inclusion becomes more complicated, or more sophisticated’ is a waste of a medical professional’s time.&#8221;
The AAMC did not respond to a request for comment on the webinar.

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Major Medical Association Pushes For DEI ‘To Be Embedded In Everything’

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‘Mount Rushmore Of DEI’: How A Major Academic Association Is ‘Destroying’ Medicine

American Medical Association

This is the first in a series of articles from Alliance Defending Freedom on the state of free speech in America today. October 21 to 27 is National Free Speech Week.
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All over America, schools are back in session – and lessons are being learned. Some of those lessons are worthwhile, practical, and inspiring. But on far too many campuses, the lessons are doing serious damage not only to our sons and daughters and grandchildren, but to the nation they will one day lead.
Sadly, the most basic lesson a lot of students are learning from their teachers and administrators is: “Be a free-thinker—as long as you agree with us.” Conform your ideas. Shame people who think differently. Don’t engage in words, conversations, speeches, or debates that raise questions or address ideas that may challenge the current culture or established biases of this political season.
When pro-Palestine protests on college campuses reached a fever pitch earlier this year, Jewish students at colleges like Columbia University were told to <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/04/22/columbia-protests-gaza-antisemitism-jewish-students/73412092007/">leave campus</a> for their own safety. At UCLA, Jewish students <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/pro-palestinian-encampment-blocks-ucla-students-from-entering-library-during-midterms/">voiced their concerns</a> but said they were “denied” and “not getting acknowledged.” UCLA masked its refusal to enforce rules against disruptive students behind a <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/pro-palestinian-encampment-blocks-ucla-students-from-entering-library-during-midterms/">statement</a> saying the protests were largely peaceful.
The refusal to maintain a peaceful, respectful atmosphere on campus hit close to home for me two years ago. I serve as senior counsel and director of the Center for Academic Freedom at Alliance Defending Freedom, and in 2022, ADF General Counsel and CEO Kristen Waggoner was invited to share a presentation with a progressive, atheist advocate on the importance of free speech for all at Yale Law School. 
 
While Kristen and Monica Miller of the American Humanist Association believed they could demonstrate two sides of the ideological aisle finding common ground, several Yale Law students disrupted the event by shouting them down, hitting the walls, and violently intimidating the speakers into shutting down the event and leaving with a police escort. Yale failed to end the protest before it got out of control, and this is unfortunately becoming common at schools all over America (Yale eventually invited the speakers back for a peaceful presentation).
Administrators at universities all over the country will tell you they’re just trying to keep things from blowing up. They don’t want students interrupting classes, or blocking hallways, or rioting on the campus lawn. For the sake of everyone’s safety and undisturbed learning, they say, they must clamp down on any ideas that might stir the student pot.
But these same universities already have plenty of regulations in place to deal with violent or obnoxious students. The problem is that administrators are afraid to enforce them. What if the faculty members don’t like it? What if the board of trustees pushes back? What if we look bad on the evening news?
So, they silence any voices that diverge from the campus mainstream. They banish those with the “wrong” point of view. They promote their schools as bastions of tolerance and inclusion – but everyone knows these educators aren’t teaching tolerance to anyone.
The lessons their actions are passing along are that might makes right, that the loud and out-of-control are permitted to drown out the responsible and respectful. That our culture has no place for debate – or even conversation – even on important issues. That standing up for your principles in the face of opposition is a good way to get sent to campus Siberia.
People complain a lot these days about the quality of leaders they see in our public life. We wonder why we can’t produce great men and women like the ones who led us so thoughtfully and courageously in the past.
Is it really so hard to understand? Thinking comes when ideas are challenged and debated; courage comes from seeing courage modeled in the lives and conduct of others. Those aren’t lessons we’re teaching our children today. Those are not the examples we’re setting for our young people.
That’s why protecting free speech is so vital to our future as a nation. There can be no inclusion without a willingness to listen, to hear what others have to say. Without a genuine respect for other people, even if we see the world differently.
Whoever our leaders are in the years ahead, they’ll be serving a country deeply divided in its politics, its morals, its social and cultural attitudes. Uniting us will take unusual courage, self-control, and the ability to bring many different minds and hearts together.
Those are qualities worth passing along – if our schools and universities are willing to teach them.
The clock is ticking. And class is in session.
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Tyson Langhofer is Senior Counsel and Director of the Center for Academic Freedom with <a href="http://www.adflegal.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alliance Defending Freedom</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/ADFLegal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@ADFLegal</a>).
October 21 to 27 is National Free Speech Week.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Free Speech: What Our Schools Aren’t Teaching The Leaders Of Tomorrow

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A widely-cited study that claims black babies were more likely to die under white doctors&#8217; care had a serious methodological problem — one that appears to explain the study&#8217;s troubling conclusion, according to a new report from the Manhattan Institute.
Manhattan Institute scholars George Borjas and Robert VerBruggen found that the authors of the <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32817561/#full-view-affiliation-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">influential 2020 study</a> did not consider that white doctors were more likely to care for black babies with low birth weight, which dramatically increases the chance a baby will die. When controlling for low birth weight, the scholars found no significant difference in outcomes for newborns based on a doctor&#8217;s race.
Their <a href="https://manhattan.institute/article/do-black-newborns-fare-better-with-black-doctors">findings</a> call into question the legitimacy of the study, which has been cited to demonstrate supposed inherent racism among white doctors.
“This fact that Black newborns do so much better under the care of Black physicians warrants greater investigation by researchers and medical practitioners into drivers of differences between higher- and lower-performing physicians, and why Black physicians systemically outperform their colleagues when caring for Black newborns,” study co-author Aaron Sojourner <a href="https://www.sph.umn.edu/news/black-newborns-die-less-when-cared-for-by-black-doctors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> in 2020. 
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson cited the study in her dissent from the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision striking down affirmative action in higher education. &#8220;For high-risk black newborns, having a black physician more than doubles the likelihood that the baby will live, and not die,&#8221; Jackson wrote. 
When controlling for birth weight, the data doesn&#8217;t actually show that white doctors were performing poorly when working with black patients.
“Controlling for very low birth weight — i.e., comparing newborns within the same weight class — eliminates the racial concordance result in the most detailed statistical models. This happens because black doctors disproportionately care for black newborns with healthy birth weights,” Borjas and VerBruggen wrote. “Conversely, white doctors care for a disproportionately large share of the black babies most at risk, those who have a very low birth weight.”
Borjas and VerBruggen argue that the difference can be explained by controlling for babies treated with healthy birth weights and those born at a dangerously low weight. They argued that controlling for birth weight rendered the seeming disparity in treatment meaningless. 
To analyze the original study, Borjas and VerBruggen obtained the same data set used by the George Mason researchers and attempted to replicate their findings. The data was pulled from births in Florida between 1992 to 2015. 
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The scholars said that the outcome for black newborns could be improved by focusing on ensuring healthy pregnancies. 
“In short, our analysis suggests that the potential for improving neonatal outcomes for black infants lies more in reducing the incidence of newborns born with very low birth weights (and in improving care for those infants) than in the color of their doctors’ skin,” the scholars wrote. “Fortunately, care for premature infants has improved rapidly in recent years—though not all hospitals routinely do, or are equipped to do, everything that is possible.”
Brad Greenwood, the lead author of the 2020 study, told The Daily Wire that he welcomed academic discussion on the issue.
&#8220;I am glad that there is a continued and robust dialogue in the scholarly community about the means by which the racial mortality gap in birthing outcomes can be ameliorated,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It is important work that needs to be continued.&#8221;
Borjas and VerBruggen first published their study on the report last month in an <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2409264121#core-r1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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New Analysis Debunks Claim That Black Babies Fare Worse Under White Doctors

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More than 70 years ago, William F. Buckley Jr. wrote &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/GOD-MAN-YALE-William-Buckley/dp/B002O059O6/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=">God and Man at Yale</a>.&#8221; In the book, Buckley provides numerous examples of how collectivism was being taught in economics classes at Yale at the time. While the sheer number of examples often comes across as redundant, they serve Buckley&#8217;s point and overwhelm readers with a sense of urgency. The collegiate educational system was in need of reform or it would produce a generation of improperly educated individuals. Unfortunately, as the voice crying out in the desert, Buckley&#8217;s warning went mostly unheeded. As a result, we have for the last 40-some years lived in an increasingly collectivist society.
The word &#8220;collectivism&#8221; might seem anachronistic, but it is precisely the word Buckley used to describe this form of education. He wrote &#8220;God and Man at Yale&#8221; to bring awareness to educational corruption not just at Yale but, as he correctly assumed, at universities across the country. It is only logical to worry about the intellectual corruption being foisted upon the younger generation by their professors. I doubt as many people were concerned about this in the 1950s as they are today. Buckley foresaw the long-term consequences of what was being taught. Today, we long for a return to how education used to be — before drag queen story hour and teachers telling their kindergarten students about their sex lives. After reading &#8220;God and Man at Yale,&#8221; however, one can very clearly see how education devolved from the top down.
Buckley begins his economics section of the book by stating that the university encourages its students to seek &#8220;cradle-to-grave&#8221; security by teaching it indirectly through its curriculum. The recipient of such collectivist economic doctrine, will naturally try to bring about an environment where community-run production and equal distribution of wealth are the pillars of society, affording that &#8220;cradle-to-grave&#8221; security.
<div id="attachment_805439" style="width: 413px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-805439" class="size-large wp-image-805439" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/10/GettyImages-517332124-403x576.jpg" alt="(Original Caption) William F. Buckley, writer, with first book, &quot;God and man at Yale.&quot; photo, 1951." width="403" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/10/GettyImages-517332124-403x576.jpg 403w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/10/GettyImages-517332124-210x300.jpg 210w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/10/GettyImages-517332124.jpg 716w" sizes="(max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px" />(Original Caption) William F. Buckley, writer, with first book, &#8220;God and man at Yale.&#8221; photo, 1951.</div>
One of the textbooks used by the university was written by Theodore Morgan. Regarding income tax, Morgan says, &#8220;a tax of 42-49 percent on incomes between $20,000 and $100,000, and a tax of 75-99 percent on incomes over $100,000.&#8221; Morgan also thinks that there should be no exemption from capital gains tax. It is important to note that the economics classes Buckley is criticizing are for the most part entry level. It would be different if these were advanced theoretical classes with eight students in attendance. Unfortunately, actual class attendance was in the hundreds per semester.
Buckley continues his examples with another textbook review. This one is titled &#8220;Economic Analysis and Public Policy&#8221; by Bowman and Bach. These two authors were met with much justifiable criticism from Buckley. The authors state:
<blockquote>To set the responsibility for attaining and maintaining full employment on the shoulders of individual consumers or individual businessmen, is absurd.</blockquote>
They then go on to describe four powers that are unique to the government. Bowman and Bach maintain that these powers allow the government to control the economy in ways that private industry cannot. The first of these powers is the power of compulsion. Bowman and Bach believe that the state should use this to their advantage and forcibly redistribute income and restrict production of certain goods and services.
In relation to this, Theodore Morgan says:
<blockquote>high taxes for redistribution&#8230; If necessary, let the government guarantee full employment.</blockquote>
Buckley concisely responds by stating:
<blockquote>it must be realized that unemployment is never a problem if freedom is to be the sacrificial offering; unemployment is unknown to the Soviet Union.</blockquote>
Buckley, later into his writing, cites these and other economists who believe that deficit spending is not only good, but that there should be no limit to it. He cites Paul Samuelson, author of &#8220;Economics, An Introductory Analysis&#8221;:
<blockquote>In short, there is no technical financial reason why a nation fanatically addicted to deficit spending should not pursue such a policy for the rest of our lives, and even beyond.</blockquote>
This same kind of curriculum Buckley describes can be found in universities across America today. When considering the type of economic policies Kamala Harris proposes, one can only imagine the type of economic doctrine her professors preached from the classroom pulpit.
Harris has proposed a $25,000 housing assistance program in addition to taxpayer funded healthcare. These would only create the type of environment that Yale students were taught to pursue in the 1950s. The “cradle-to-grave” society that I mentioned earlier. This would lead to more deficit spending which, as quoted above, Samuelson promotes.
Harris also runs her campaign on the collectivist idea of the redistribution of wealth. Every author cited by Buckley wrote about the wonderful effects the redistribution of wealth can have on a society. Harris aims to achieve this redistribution by using the same method espoused by Theodore Morgan. That tool being higher capital gains tax and higher income tax.
Harris also seeks to ban price gouging which would allow even more government encroachment into private industry, another goal unanimously preached among economic collectivists.
William F. Buckley Jr. published his book &#8220;God and Man at Yale&#8221; in 1951. He wanted to warn society in general of the current curriculum at Yale and more broadly, universities across America. His call went mostly unheard. As a result, we are now faced with the threat of a president who is the poster child for economic collectivism. We must not be so complacent. We must take back the education system. If not, there will be many more presidents as bad or worse than what Kamala Harris might be. 
C.S. Lewis perfectly encapsulated this idea, “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
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Calvin Morgan is the president of the Young Americans for Freedom Chapter at Wichita State University. He works as an assistant plant manager at a fertilizer manufacturer in Wichita, Kansas.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Daily Wire.

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