For the first time in 17 years, the four top-seeded teams in the March Madness tournament will meet in the Final Four — and in the same city as the last time it happened.
On Saturday, the University of Florida Gators beat the Texas Tech Red Raiders, and Duke University defeated the Alabama Crimson Tide. On Sunday, Auburn defeated two-seed Michigan State, while Houston defeated Tennessee. Florida and Auburn, both from the SEC, will meet in the semifinals, while Houston plays Duke on April 5 at the Alamodome.
Such a matchup hasn&#8217;t happened since 2008, when Kansas, Memphis, North Carolina, and UCLA met in San Antonio. That year, Kansas defeated Memphis to take the crown.
Duke, coached by Jon Scheyer, is favored to win the title, with star freshman Cooper Flagg seeming a probable choice for the most outstanding player.
However, the Blue Devils face a tough match against Houston; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6243379/2025/03/31/final-four-no-1-seeds-duke-auburn-florida-houston/">according</a> to statistical archivist Ken Pomeroy, Duke has the best offense in college basketball, but Houston has the best defense. Additionally, Houston led the country in 3-point shooting, making almost 40% of their shots. One key difference could be Duke’s youth: their frontcourt of four freshmen will face three players who are 22 or older.
Florida, led by star player Walter Clayton Jr., defeated Auburn earlier in the season 90-81/
Duke has won the national title five times, all coached by Mike Mike Krzyzewski, who also brought the team to the finals four times. Florida won the national title in 2006 and 2007 under Coach Billy Donovan. Houston made the finals twice, in 1983 and 1984.
Auburn has never played in a national championship game.

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Spoiler Alert: This piece contains spoilers for White Lotus, Season 3.
Duke University is speaking out after branded apparel featuring its name was used in a violent scene depicting suicide on the hit HBO series “The White Lotus.”
“The White Lotus not only uses our brand without permission, but in our view uses it on imagery that is troubling, does not reflect our values or who we are, and simply goes too far,” Duke’s VP for communications, marketing, and public affairs Frank Tramble said in a statement to <a href="https://deadline.com/2025/03/duke-denounces-white-lotus-school-logo-violent-scene-1236351914/">Deadline</a>. 
“Suicide is the second-leading cause of death on college campuses. As imagery from the show is being shared widely across social media, we are using our brand to promote mental health awareness and remind people that help is available,” the statement said.
“Duke appreciates artistic expression and creative storytelling, but characters prominently wearing apparel bearing Duke’s federally registered trademarks creates confusion and mistakenly suggests an endorsement or affiliation where none exists,” it states.
The scene in question features one of the ensemble characters, Timothy Ratliff (Jason Isaacs), wearing a Duke T-shirt while fantasizing about killing himself. The character has been in turmoil for the whole season as he grapples with being implicated in financial fraud and losing his wealth and reputation. 
He’s been able to hide what&#8217;s happening from his family while they’re on vacation in Thailand, but Timothy is spiraling out of control as he contemplates returning to the United States and facing the consequences of his actions.
The suicide scene is controversial, but the storyline really making the headlines involves an incestuous sexual encounter between Timothy’s two sons. 
In season 3, episode 6, Saxon Ratliff (Patrick Schwarzenegger) realizes he had a threesome with his brother Lochlan Ratliff (Sam Nivola) while the two were high on drugs and drinking at a party. While discussing the scene with <a href="https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/white-lotus-incest-brothers-sex-scene-gay-1236336790/">Variety</a>, Nivola said series creator Mike White had a tendency to create characters who are “lovable, yet rotten at their core.”
The actor also defends the actions of his character, saying Lochlan is “not a creep, necessarily.” 
“It’s important to the story that he’s not some psychopath,” Nivola says of Lochlan. Episode 6 was the <a href="https://www.vulture.com/article/white-lotus-incest-episode-viewership-record.html">most watched</a> yet, with 4.2 million viewers.
At the beginning of the season, Lochlan’s main issue was deciding whether to attend Duke University – his father’s alma mater – or the University of North Carolina for college. 
If you are having thoughts of suicide, call or text 988 to reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline or go to <a href="http://speakingofsuicide.com/resources" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources</a> for a list of additional resources.

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President-elect Donald Trump weighed in on Saturday morning to the news that the woman who accused three Duke Lacrosse players of rape in 2006 has now recanted her story.
&#8220;Woman admits to totally fabricating accusations in the horrible Duke Lacrosse Case,&#8221; Trump posted on social media. &#8220;She destroyed the lives of these young men.&#8221;
Crystal Mangum, now 46, made the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woman-who-falsely-accused-duke-lacrosse-players-finally-admits-she-lied">admission</a> during an interview with Katerena DePasquale at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women, where Mangum is serving time for killing her boyfriend in 2011.
“I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn’t, and that was wrong, and I betrayed the trust of a lot of other people who believed in me,” Mangum said. “I made up a story that wasn’t true because I wanted validation from people and not from God.”
Mangum added that she hoped the falsely accused students – David Evans, Collin Finnerty, and Reade Seligmann – could forgive her.
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More than 18 years after the Duke lacrosse allegations, Crystal Mangum admits that she made it all up. 
&#8220;I testified falsely against [the lacrosse players] by saying that they raped me when they didn&#8217;t&#8230;I made up a story that wasn&#8217;t true&#8230;I hope that they can forgive me.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/3yMjbQTQXH">pic.twitter.com/3yMjbQTQXH</a>
— KC Johnson (@kcjohnson9) <a href="https://twitter.com/kcjohnson9/status/1867355689259049024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
Mangum cannot be prosecuted for perjury, Duke student newspaper The Chronicle reported, because the statute of limitations on such a charge is only two years in North Carolina.
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Mangum is already in jail for the 2011 murder of her then-boyfriend Reginald Daye. Mangum claimed she was afraid for her life and charged with second-degree murder. She was found guilty in 2013 and sentenced to 14-17 years in prison, with a projected release date of February 27, 2026.
In 2006, Mangum was hired as a stripper for a party thrown by members of the Duke men’s lacrosse team. After the party, Mangum got into an altercation with another woman hired as a stripper that night, and police were called. Mangum was going to be involuntarily committed to a drug and mental health center and, fearing she would lose her child, falsely claimed she had been raped by Duke students.
At the same time, then-Durham County, North Carolina, District Attorney Mike Nifong, who was up for re-election, decided to use Mangum’s allegations to win his re-election despite apparent issues with her claims from the beginning. Nifong even conspired with the director of the DNA lab to withhold DNA evidence that cleared the Duke players of rape and continued to pursue the case, falsely telling the media he had the evidence.
Nifong also pressured Mangum into picking Duke players from a lineup. She picked three randomly – Evans, Finnerty, and Seligmann – and they were charged. Seligmann was able to prove he was not even at the party at the time the rape was alleged to have occurred, providing ATM records and surveillance, as well as cell phone evidence and an affidavit from the taxi driver who drove him that night. His campus card was also swiped at his dorm during the time he was allegedly assaulting Mangum.
Mangum’s story also repeatedly changed throughout the proceedings. On December 22, 2006, Nifong finally dropped the charges after Mangum changed her story yet again. Six days later, the North Carolina bar filed ethics charges against Nifong over how he handled the case, and he was disbarred. He also spent one day in jail for his actions.
In early 2007, North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and the state Attorney General’s office declared the three students innocent – a rare move for anyone accused of rape.
Even after her allegations were proven false, Mangum maintained for years that she was a victim, even writing and promoting a book telling her alleged side of the story.
Ashe Schow contributed to this report.

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One of the astonishing things about the news industry is that many stories with an outsized national impact turn out to have been completely falsified upon further review. One of its incentive structures is often “firstist with the mostist”; in other words, get to the story fast and report it incredibly quickly. But then, the reporting ends up being false. In retrospect, this does significant damage. This is true in regard to reporting about COVID or Black Lives Matter.
One of the signal examples of this is now being exposed for all the world to see.
18 years ago, in 2006, the Duke lacrosse rape case incited a wide variety of movements that would come into full flower over the course of the subsequent 10 years, particularly during the Obama era. The Duke lacrosse case was an inciting incident for Black Lives Matter and for the #MeToo movement.
In this case, a stripper accused a series of rich white lacrosse players at Duke University of having sexually assaulted her. It became one of the biggest cases in American criminal justice history, specifically because of its ripple effects.
Crystal Mangum, the stripper at the center of that case, has admitted she lied back in 2006. Until now, she has never publicly admitted she fabricated the rape allegation.
Three men, David Evans, Collin Finnerty, and Reade Seligmann, were arrested and put on trial before the case was dismissed. Mangum’s original allegation was that she had been performing at a team party off campus in March of 2006, had been sexually assaulted, and raped by a series of white Duke lacrosse players.
She was, indeed, at this party, but, apparently, she engaged in none of her &#8220;career activity,&#8221; shall we say, because she was high on drugs or intoxicated with alcohol. She ended up leaving early, and then these accusations were filed.
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There were many holes in her story. First, there is no DNA on her. Second, she could not identify any of the Duke lacrosse players, except for one, who ended up not having even been there.
Yet, the problems with her allegations did not stop everyone — including the elite media and those on university campuses — from jumping to conclusions.
Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqt9OX-oAtU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in 2006, “I am not going to allow Durham’s view in the mind of the world to be a bunch of lacrosse players from Duke raping a black girl in Durham.”
Nifong obviously had other political motivations, possibly to run for a higher office at some point. In a March 2006 interview with CBS News, he <a href="https://www.ncbar.gov/orders/06dhc35.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>, “The circumstances of the rape indicated a deep racial motivation for some of the things that were done. It makes a crime that is by its nature one of the most offensive and invasive even more so.” According to Nifong, this wasn&#8217;t just a rape. It was, in fact, a racist rape.
The former Duke University president, Richard Brodhead, took immediate action against the team following only the allegations. He accepted the resignation of the men&#8217;s lacrosse coach, canceled the remainder of their season, and suspended the accused three players from school after they were indicted for rape, according to <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/12/12/us-news/former-stripper-murder-convict-crystal-mangum-confesses-to-lying-about-being-raped-by-duke-lacrosse-players-in-2006/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Post</a>. This was “despite having asked the public not to prejudge the criminal case.”
David Evans, one of the players, stridently <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niLROfcOfBc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied the allegations</a>, saying, “I am absolutely innocent of all the charges that have been brought against me today, that Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty are innocent of all the charges that were brought against them. These allegations are lies.” Eventually, the case was dismissed.
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Yet that did not stop The New York Times from running around 100 pieces about the Duke lacrosse allegations. A tremendous number of Duke faculty actually paid for an ad that was put in the Duke Chronicle devoted to this particular case. Numerous departments and professors at the university signed onto this paid advertisement. What did <a href="https://today.duke.edu/showcase/mmedia/pdf/socialdisasterad.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the statement</a> say?
<blockquote>We are listening to our students. We’re also listening to the Durham community, to Duke staff, and to each other. Regardless of the results of the police investigation, what is apparent everyday now is the anger and fear of many students who know themselves to be objects of racism and sexism; who see illuminated in this moment’s extraordinary spotlight what they live with everyday. They know that it isn’t just Duke, it isn’t everybody, and it isn’t just individuals making this disaster. But it is a disaster nonetheless. These students are shouting and whispering about what happened to this young woman and to themselves.</blockquote>
The ad then provided anonymous student statements about the issue. The seedbed for the Black Lives Matter movement here is obvious. And it turns out all of this was based on lies. It was all lies — beginning to end.
Eventually, the North Carolina attorney general, Roy Cooper, announced that the charges had, in fact, been dropped. (Cooper would go on to become the governor of North Carolina.) He <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHtDbZ5i-w8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a>:
<blockquote>Our attorneys and SBI agents have interviewed numerous people who were at the party, DNA and other experts, the Durham County district attorney, Durham police officers, defense attorneys, and the accusing witness on several occasions. We have reviewed statements given over the year, photographs, records, and other evidence. The result of our review and investigation shows clearly that there is insufficient evidence to proceed on any of the charges. Today, we are filing notices of dismissal for all charges against Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty, and David Evans. The result is that these cases are over, and no more criminal proceedings will occur.</blockquote>
Nifong ended up being disbarred for making false statements and hiding evidence from the defense. The president of Duke University later came out and offered <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NkgddRymFA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an apology</a>.
But here&#8217;s the issue: What was the fallout from this case? Was the fallout a lesson learned about people making false allegations? Of course not. Was the fallout about the rush to judgment by the media deeply desperate for a race case that they could magnify? Of course not; there have been dozens since.
The actual fallout in terms of policy was that in 2011, the Obama administration changed Title IX regulations so that you basically could not defend yourself against sexual harassment or sexual assault allegation on campus.
CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/07/politics/betsy-devos-education-department-title-ix/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that the administration,
<blockquote>&#8230;outlined guidelines for schools on how to handle sexual assault allegations in a memo referred to as a ‘dear colleague’ letter. The letter reminded schools of their legal obligation to address sexual violence amid concerns that schools were not taking the issue seriously enough, and called on schools to step up investigations of reports. It also provided guidelines for investigations and hearings.</blockquote>
And it gave the accused no due process. It made it so that a person did not actually have a right to face down someone who was accusing them. That was the actual legal implication drawn from the false allegations of the Duke lacrosse case.
This repeated itself later with similar allegations that were made about the University of Virginia frat members in 2014 accused by Rolling Stone of engaging in a gang rape, which turned out to be completely false as well. But that didn&#8217;t stop the momentum of the #MeToo movement.
False allegations are, unfortunately, the lifeblood of movements that require gas when there is no gas in the tank.
Yesterday, Mangum, the accuser in the Duke lacrosse case — who is serving time for murder right now — finally admitted (nearly 20 years later) that her accusations were all made up. She said in <a href="https://www.letstalkwithkat.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an interview</a>: 
<blockquote>I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn&#8217;t. And that was wrong. And I betrayed the trust of a lot of other people who believed in me and made up a story that wasn&#8217;t true because I wanted validation from people and not from God. And that was wrong. And I hope that they can forgive me.</blockquote>
It was false, and everyone knew it was false at the time. Yet it led to another string of these sorts of cases ranging from: the University of Virginia false rape allegations; the false allegations regarding Michael Brown&#8217;s death in Ferguson, Missouri, which led to riots in 2014; the case of George Floyd, which is in fact a false case; and the Daniel Penny case.
It stretches forward because the media need these opportunities. They spin up these opportunities. They rely on these opportunities in order to “have the discussion.” They&#8217;re constantly looking for a news hook to have discussions on the issues that they find most interesting regardless of whether the underlying data is there or not.
The media are perfectly willing to jump into certain conversations. However, there are other conversations that the media are absolutely not willing to broach.
Was there a widespread investigation into false rape allegations, which was the actual story with regard to the Duke lacrosse case? Absolutely not. Was there a full-scale media blitz on the question of rape hoaxes, which is what happened in Duke lacrosse? Absolutely not. The way the mainstream media work, their way of deciding whether something is a national story or not, is not based on the truth or falsity of the statements or the good or bad action of the people in question.
They have a preset narrative, and then they look for a hook for that narrative. That is how spinning up a movement out of nothing becomes possible. And it is how polarizing the American body politic occurs.
For four decades, the national media have pursued a preset narrative agenda. Then, they look for a news hook for that agenda that allows them to spin it up into a national story.
That is why Americans are sick and tired of the national legacy media.
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The woman who falsely accused three Duke lacrosse players of rape in 2006 has finally admitted that she lied.
Crystal Mangum, now 46, made the admission during <a href="https://www.letstalkwithkat.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an interview</a> with Katerena DePasquale at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women, where Mangum is serving time for killing her boyfriend in 2011.
“I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn&#8217;t, and that was wrong, and I betrayed the trust of a lot of other people who believed in me,” Mangum said. “I made up a story that wasn&#8217;t true because I wanted validation from people and not from God.”
Mangum added that she hoped the falsely accused students &#8211; David Evans, Collin Finnerty, and Reade Seligmann – could forgive her.
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More than 18 years after the Duke lacrosse allegations, Crystal Mangum admits that she made it all up. 
&#8220;I testified falsely against [the lacrosse players] by saying that they raped me when they didn&#8217;t&#8230;I made up a story that wasn&#8217;t true&#8230;I hope that they can forgive me.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/3yMjbQTQXH">pic.twitter.com/3yMjbQTQXH</a>
— KC Johnson (@kcjohnson9) <a href="https://twitter.com/kcjohnson9/status/1867355689259049024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Mangum cannot be prosecuted for perjury, Duke student newspaper The Chronicle <a href="https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024/12/duke-mens-lacrosse-scandal-2006-crystal-mangum-admits-fabrication-rape-18-years-later-apologizes-kat-depasquale-evans-finnerty-seligmann-brodhead-pressler-nifong" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, because the statute of limitations on such a charge is only two years in North Carolina.
Mangum is already in jail for the 2011 murder of her then-boyfriend Reginald Daye. Mangum claimed she was afraid for her life and charged with second-degree murder. She was found guilty in 2013 and sentenced to 14-17 years in prison, with a projected release date of February 27, 2026.
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In 2006, Mangum was hired as a stripper for a party thrown by members of the Duke men’s lacrosse team. After the party, Mangum got into an altercation with another woman hired as a stripper that night, and police were called. Mangum was going to be involuntarily committed to a drug and mental health center and, fearing she would lose her child, falsely claimed she had been raped by Duke students.
At the same time, then-Durham County, North Carolina, District Attorney Mike Nifong, who was up for re-election, decided to use Mangum’s allegations to win his re-election despite apparent issues with her claims from the beginning. Nifong even conspired with the director of the DNA lab to withhold DNA evidence that cleared the Duke players of rape and continued to pursue the case, falsely telling the media he had the evidence.
Nifong also pressured Mangum into picking Duke players from a lineup. She picked three randomly – Evans, Finnerty, and Seligmann – and they were charged. Seligmann was able to prove he was not even at the party at the time the rape was alleged to have occurred, providing ATM records and surveillance, as well as cell phone evidence and an affidavit from the taxi driver who drove him that night. His campus card was also swiped at his dorm during the time he was allegedly assaulting Mangum.
Mangum’s story also repeatedly changed throughout the proceedings. On December 22, 2006, Nifong finally dropped the charges after Mangum changed her story yet again. Six days later, the North Carolina bar filed ethics charges against Nifong over how he handled the case, and he was disbarred. He also spent one day in jail for his actions.
In early 2007, North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and the state Attorney General’s office declared the three students innocent – a rare move for anyone accused of rape.
Even after her allegations were proven false, Mangum maintained for years that she was a victim, even writing and promoting a book telling her alleged side of the story.

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Woman Who Falsely Accused Duke Lacrosse Players Finally Admits She Lied

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If you like your doctors and nurses to show a &#8220;sense of urgency&#8221; when caring for you and your loved ones, you might just be part of &#8220;white supremacy culture,&#8221; according to one prominent medical school.
Duke University School of Medicine <a href="https://medschool.duke.edu/news/school-launches-plan-dismantle-racism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> a <a href="https://medschool.duke.edu/sites/default/files/2021-08/dismantling_racism_and_advancing_equity_diversity_and_inclusion_ADA.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">strategic plan</a> in recent years claiming that having a &#8220;sense of urgency&#8221; is part of &#8220;white supremacy culture&#8221; and suggesting that forcing this expectation on people of color is &#8220;discriminatory.&#8221;
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&#8220;In the workplace, white supremacy culture explicitly and implicitly privileges whiteness and discriminates against non-Western and non-white professionalism standards related to dress code, speech, work style, and timeliness,&#8221; the document reads.
&#8220;Some identifiable characteristics of this culture includes perfectionism, belief that there’s only one right way, power hoarding, individualism, sense of urgency and defensiveness,&#8221; the document adds.
The 2021 guide, which Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/duke-medical-school-claims-timeliness-individualism-part-white-supremacy-culture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Tuesday, defines white supremacy culture as the &#8220;idea (ideology) that White people and the ideas, thoughts, beliefs, and actions of white people are superior to People of Color and their ideas, thoughts, beliefs, and actions.&#8221;
Titled &#8220;Dismantling Racism And Advancing Equity, Diversity And Inclusion in the School of Medicine,&#8221; the document says the goal of the plan is to &#8220;catalyze anti-racist practice through education of our current and future workforce.&#8221;
The dean of Duke Medical School, Dr. Mary Klotman, praised the plan at the time of its unveiling.
&#8220;This plan reflects the School of Medicine’s goals, priorities and strategies relative to the path we have been on, the path we are currently on, and the path forward,&#8221; Klotman wrote in a message accompanying the document.
&#8220;We are proud of our longstanding commitment to diversity and excellence and yet we acknowledge that there is much more work to do,&#8221; she said.
The document also included a definition of &#8220;white fragility,&#8221; which it says refers to &#8220;feelings of discomfort a white person experiences when they witness or engage in discussions around racial inequality and injustice.&#8221;
The idea that timeliness is a value of &#8220;white&#8221; culture has been around for at least the past several years.
&#8220;In a world driven by capitalism, professionalism &#8230; centers productivity over people, values time commitments, accomplishes tasks in a linear fashion, and often favors individuals who are white and Western,&#8221; <a href="https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_bias_of_professionalism_standards" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reads</a> a 2019 article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. &#8220;In contrast, polychronic cultures, while still able to get tasks completed, prioritize socialization and familial connections over economic labor.&#8221;
Other professional expectations that have been criticized as too &#8220;white&#8221; are <a href="https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_bias_of_professionalism_standards" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speaking</a> &#8220;white standard English&#8221; and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/sports/serena-williams-discrimination-black-women.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">keeping</a> anger in check at work.
Meanwhile, equity advocates <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/universities-scrap-sat-scramble-to-stay-diverse-ahead-of-affirmative-action-ruling">have</a> <a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/2019/09/its-time-to-abolish-the-mcat.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed</a> for medical schools to stop requiring the MCAT in recent years, alarming critics who worry that schools could end up graduating less qualified doctors, putting patients at risk.
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If You Like Your Surgeons With A ‘Sense Of Urgency,’ That’s ‘White Supremacy Culture,’ This Medical School Says

If You Like Your Surgeons With A 'Sense Of Urgency,' That's 'White Supremacy Culture,' This Medical School Says

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jerry-seinfeld">Jerry Seinfeld</a> gave the commencement address at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/duke-university">Duke University</a> over the weekend and apologized during his remarks for the sexual content in his 2007 animated children’s film.
The 70-year-old comedian mentioned “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">Bee Movie</a>” while addressing the crowd gathered in Durham, North Carolina, on Sunday. &#8220;I made a cartoon movie about bees you may have watched as a child,&#8221; Seinfeld said in a <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@drummerofphc/video/7368144938531409195">video clip</a> that’s since gained traction on TikTok.
&#8220;If any of you felt slightly uncomfortable about the sexual undertones in the relationship between Barry B. Benson and Vanessa, the florist who saves his life, I would like to apologize for that now,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I may not have calibrated that perfectly.&#8221;
Over the years, there’s been a lot of conversation about the nature of the relationship between Seinfeld’s character, a bee, and his human co-star, Vanessa (voiced by Renée Zellweger).
This isn’t the first time Seinfeld brought up his regrets about the relationship in “Bee Movie.”
&#8220;I apologize for what seems to be a certain uncomfortable subtle sexual aspect of the &#8216;Bee Movie,'&#8221; he said during a 2021 <a href="https://youtu.be/W_pOI7kHMTI">appearance</a> on The Tonight Show. &#8220;[It] really was not intentional, but after it came out, I realized this is really not appropriate for children. Because the bee seems to have a thing for the girl, and we don’t really want to pursue that as an idea in children’s entertainment.&#8221;
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Prior to his speech, several pro-Palestinian students walked out of the commencement ceremony when Seinfeld was announced as a speaker, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anti-israel-protesters-get-booed-as-they-walk-out-on-graduation-speaker-jerry-seinfeld">reported</a>. The comedian has voiced his support for Israel publicly as the war against Hamas continues. 
Seinfeld received an honorary degree from Duke. His son Julian currently attends the college, while his daughter Sascha previously graduated from there.
The stand-up star has recently been promoting his newly released comedy, “Unfrosted,” about the origin of Pop-Tarts. The movie, Seinfeld’s directorial debut, has received mixed reviews from critics. It currently has a 40% critical rating and a 55% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
“All told, ‘Unfrosted’ is the cinematic equivalent of a kid mixing every cereal from his parents’ cupboard into a giant salad bowl with the hope that a splash of milk will magically blend the various flavors into something palatable,” one reviewer <a href="https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/unfrosted-review-jerry-seinfeld-pop-tarts-netflix-1234999325/">said</a> of the film.

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Pro-Palestinian students walked out of Duke University&#8217;s commencement ceremony on Sunday as Jewish comedian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jerry-seinfeld" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jerry Seinfeld</a>, who has displayed support for Israel amid its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, was being introduced as a speaker.
Boos could be heard from the audience while a small group of graduates waved Palestinian flags in Wallace Wade Stadium, according to <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1789683755793227988" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a video</a> that has gone viral on social media.
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Gaza activists protest Jerry Seinfeld&#39;s commencement speech at Duke University, walk out waving Palestinian flag and chanting &quot;free Palestine.&quot;
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The dozens of students who walked out <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/us/as-jerry-seinfeld-receives-an-honorary-degree-at-duke-students-walk-out-in-protest.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">chanted</a>, &#8220;Free, free Palestine.&#8221; As <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/us/as-jerry-seinfeld-receives-an-honorary-degree-at-duke-students-walk-out-in-protest.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by the New York Times, Seinfeld &#8220;looked on and smiled tensely&#8221; as the demonstration took place.
Seinfeld received an honorary degree at Duke while some graduates <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/seinfeld-speech-duke-commencement-prompts-walkout-protesting-his-support-israel-2024-05-12/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shouted</a>, &#8220;Jerry! Jerry!&#8221; and he delivered remarks in which he quipped about growing up a &#8220;Jewish boy from New York&#8221; being &#8220;a privilege if you want to be a comedian.&#8221;
The Hollywood star, best known for the hit TV comedy Seinfeld, is now on tour promoting his new movie Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story. He has two children who were accepted into Duke University.
Anti-Israel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/protests" target="_blank" rel="noopener">protests</a> have been taking place on university campuses nationwide, raising concerns about the safety of Jewish students. Despite the large amount of press the demonstrations have received, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-finds-most-college-students-against-anti-israel-protest-tactics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">polling</a> indicates most U.S. college students do not support the tactics employed in the protests.
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Seinfeld visited Israel in December in a show of solidarity after Hamas terrorists committed a deadly attack on Israeli soil in October and <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/jerry-seinfeld-meets-israeli-hostage-families-1235765834/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">met with</a> the families of hostages who were taken during the onslaught at the Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum Headquarters, <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/12/jerry-seinfeld-hostages-hamas-israel-1235678494/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Deadline</a>.
“Seinfeld told the families that he feels a deep commitment to raising awareness around the world about the issue of the hostages,” said a statement from the forum. &#8220;He and his family were clearly deeply affected by the stories of the experiences they heard from the family members and the released hostages.&#8221;
In February, Seinfeld could be seen <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jerry-seinfeld-waves-smiles-as-anti-israel-protesters-heckle-him-in-nyc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">smiling and waving</a> to a group of anti-Israel protesters gathered outside an event he was attending in Manhattan. The demonstrators could be heard screaming, &#8220;Genocide supporter, you support genocide.&#8221;

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Multiple Republican lawmakers expressed their outrage this week after Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-posts-shocking-thread-revealing-dei-at-work-in-medicine-even-if-doctors-injure-patients-they-might-still-be-protected" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted a shocking thread</a> showing how doctors and medical associations have embraced diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), signaling the possibility of action on the issue on Capitol Hill.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dei-puts-the-lives-of-your-loved-ones-at-risk-elon-musk-other-prominent-voices-respond-to-ben-shapiro-investigation-into-dei-in-medicine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shapiro&#8217;s thread</a>, posted to X on Monday, dove into how some medical schools and doctors have pushed DEI in an effort to recruit more minority surgeons and stop hiring so many “walls of white men,” especially after the death of George Floyd and the ensuing riots in the summer of 2020. The Daily Wire editor emeritus said that his findings even show how some “top hospitals are abandoning key metrics when hiring surgeons.”
Congressman Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), a senior member of the House Subcommittee on Health, said in a statement to The Daily Wire that he plans to &#8220;lead the charge&#8221; against the issue in Congress.
&#8220;Americans deserve to know their medical professionals are the most qualified candidate available, that grants awards are based on the most promising outcomes, and that all patients are treated equally without regard to their race or political views,&#8221; the Florida congressman said. &#8220;As a senior member of the Health Subcommittee, I will be leading the charge to uphold this basic standard of care and hold those who violate it accountable.&#8221;
“There is no place for identity politics, discrimination and DEI in medicine – it risks lives,&#8221; Bilirakis said.
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1/ DEI in medicine means that even if doctors injure patients, they might still be protected (even promoted). It means that top hospitals are abandoning key metrics when hiring surgeons. And it means research by whites may be disregarded. Here’s what I&#39;ve found… 🧵
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1762195994123407577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) <a href="https://twitter.com/danbishopnc/status/1762515833484345562" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that &#8220;the law is very clear&#8221; about hiring practices that exclude anyone based on race or sex. In a video uncovered by Shapiro, Duke School of Medicine surgical resident Vignesh Raman celebrated treating a majority &#8220;non-white&#8221; population and suggested he and his team were trying to bring on more women and “non-white” surgeons. Raman also discussed how his &#8220;heart sinks&#8221; when he sees any of his patients wearing MAGA hats.
Bishop, who is running for North Carolina attorney general, said that racial discrimination in hiring practices in the name of DEI &#8220;will not be tolerated.&#8221;
&#8220;Fantastic journalism from @benshapiro @realDailyWire,&#8221; Bishop <a href="https://twitter.com/danbishopnc/status/1762545813924745530" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. &#8220;DEI in medicine puts innocent lives at risk. When I’m AG, this blatant racial discrimination will not be tolerated.&#8221;
The North Carolina congressman, who is a former civil litigator, joined &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire/congressional-funding-fights-dei-surgeon-recruitment-2-28-24" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Morning Wire</a>&#8221; on Wednesday where he said he expects to see lawsuits filed against medical institutions that use DEI in their hiring practices.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) also reposted Shapiro&#8217;s thread on X, warning against DEI in health care.
&#8220;Health care is meant to save lives and find the best of the best — not promote the latest in leftist ideologies that put patients in harm’s way all to meet an arbitrary ‘quota,’&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1762831487341056405" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
Duke has not commented on Shapiro&#8217;s investigation that uncovered Raman&#8217;s DEI discussion, but following Shapiro&#8217;s thread, the original videos featuring Raman that were posted on YouTube have been taken down.
Multiple political commentators and influential figures, including billionaire Elon Musk, also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dei-puts-the-lives-of-your-loved-ones-at-risk-elon-musk-other-prominent-voices-respond-to-ben-shapiro-investigation-into-dei-in-medicine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed their concern</a> after Shapiro released the findings of his investigation. Shapiro&#8217;s thread has now been viewed over 32 million times and reposted over 7,000 times.
“DEI puts the lives of your loved ones at risk,” <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1762223442588483633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1762223442588483633%7Ctwgr%5Ef8d932982a8f61f8cbda66981093fee56b719f3b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fdei-puts-the-lives-of-your-loved-ones-at-risk-elon-musk-other-prominent-voices-respond-to-ben-shapiro-investigation-into-dei-in-medicine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Musk.
&#8220;Black surgeon here. This is insane,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/RealBenCarson/status/1762605172306354424?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> former Trump administration official Dr. Ben Carson. &#8220;If we are going to save lives, we must keep identity politics out of the medical field.&#8221;
Former sports anchor Sage Steele — who sued ESPN alleging the network retaliated against her for making negative comments about the COVID vaccine — added, “The last sentence in the final tweet of this must-read thread should scare all of us: ‘Medical error is the third leading cause of death in the US’ … yet these universities &amp; hospitals are more concerned about DEI than hiring the most qualified person for the job??!!”

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Ben Shapiro’s Investigation On DEI’s Influence On Medicine Sparks Outrage On Hill: ‘It Risks Lives’

Lawmakers Outraged After Ben Shapiro Reveals Findings Into DEI's Influence On Medicine: 'It Risks Lives' 

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/duke-university-hospital-denied-14-year-old-girl-kidney-transplant-over-covid-vaccine-family-says">Yulia Hicks</a>, a child who was reportedly denied a kidney transplant by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/duke-university-hospital-denied-14-year-old-girl-kidney-transplant-over-covid-vaccine-family-says">Duke Children’s Hospital</a> last year, underwent a successful, life-saving kidney transplant at ECUHealth Medical Center on Thursday.
The North Carolina-based hospital stepped up to help Yulia, who has a genetic kidney disorder that requires a transplant, after her family said last year that Duke was refusing to put the teen on its kidney wait-list because she is unvaccinated against COVID. Notably, the family says Yulia had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cdc-study-natural-immunity-beats-vax-against-delta-variant">already recovered from the virus</a>, but such information was unimportant to Duke Children’s Hospital.
Yulia was sent back for surgery at 7 p.m. on Thursday evening, and is currently recovering in the pediatric ICU, Yulia’s mother Chrissy Hicks told The Daily Wire in a phone interview on Friday. The teen&#8217;s surgery went extremely well and relatively quickly. Yulia is expected to leave the hospital on Monday or Tuesday.
&#8220;We found out Friday that we were gonna have surgery this week, and that was just, like, overwhelming because the blessings are just &#8212; it&#8217;s so overwhelming that everything worked out,&#8221; Chrissy told The Daily Wire. &#8220;You know, we had hoped that this would all happen, but then for it to actually happen &#8212; you&#8217;re like, oh my gosh, it really worked, you know?&#8221;
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Yulia&#8217;s donor is a man from Kentucky, who has decided to remain anonymous. The family was told his initials are J.J.
&#8220;If it wasn&#8217;t for the media giving us attention, we would&#8217;ve never found her donor, because he came forward because he saw it in [online],&#8221; Chrissy said. &#8220;He wanted to just test and see if he was a match. We still don&#8217;t know his name, we just know he is from Kentucky and we know his initials are J.J., so he&#8217;s gonna forever be J.J. to us.&#8221;
Chrissy said around 40 people came forward looking to test if they were a match in the wake of conservative media bringing attention to Yulia&#8217;s case.
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The Hicks family asked for prayers for J.J. in an update posted to a <a href="https://www.givesendgo.com/kidneyforyulia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GiveSendGo</a> account for the family. &#8220;Please pray for his recovery. He is a hero,&#8221; it reads.
Chrissy told The Daily Wire that her family is working to get Yulia’s Law passed in North Carolina. The law would bar hospitals from denying people transplants based on their COVID vaccination status. Chrissy would like to see the law go national.
&#8220;It&#8217;s just about medical freedom is what it really comes down to,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And it&#8217;s not just about Yulia. Through this whole thing, we&#8217;ve had about 10 or 15 people contact us privately and we&#8217;ve been able to send them to hospitals that we know will take them without the vaccine. So it is not just about Yulia; it&#8217;s helping other people already and we&#8217;re hoping we can expand that even more.&#8221;
The family is also pursuing a lawsuit against Duke over the hospital allegedly denying Yulia a place on the transplant list over her COVID vaccination status.
&#8220;We are also still raising money for legal fees for our lawsuit against Duke,&#8221; the GiveSendGo account says. &#8220;What they did to our daughter was unconscionable.&#8221;
Chrissy praised the team at ECUHealth for their care and professionalism.
&#8220;We want to thank the entire team at ECUHealth for everything, especially Dr. Leeser, Dr. Romine, Cynthia Stone, and Allyson Ayers.&#8221; the crowdfunding page reads. &#8220;They are the most caring and professional team that we have encountered on this journey.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/duke-university-hospital-denied-14-year-old-girl-kidney-transplant-over-covid-vaccine-family-says">The Daily Wire</a> reported last year that a phone call, the recording of which was <a href="https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/duke-university-surgeons-are-refusing">obtained</a> by journalist Alex Berenson, reportedly revealed a Duke health official telling the Hicks family that Yulia must get vaccinated against COVID before she could become a candidate for the kidney transplant.
“I can’t require you to do anything. I can recommend these things, but if you don’t follow our recommendations, then Yulia can’t be a transplant candidate here,” the Duke Health kidney specialist reportedly said.
Throughout her interview with The Daily Wire, Chrissy repeatedly gushed over everyone who&#8217;s supported and prayed for Yulia.
&#8220;Thank you,&#8221; Chrissy said. &#8220;Just, thank you. We can never &#8212; &#8216;thank you&#8217; will never be enough. Please keep praying for Yulia&#8217;s recovery and for this angel who saved her, J.J.&#8221;
Chrissy extended an invitation for J.J. to reach out to the family if he ever wanted.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mother-of-unvaccinated-girl-denied-kidney-transplant-by-duke-shares-huge-update" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mother Of Unvaccinated Girl Denied Kidney Transplant By Duke Says Daughter Has Secured Kidney</a>

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Mother Speaks Out After Yulia Hicks Undergoes Kidney Transplant Despite Alleged Duke Rejection Over COVID Vax

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Manhattan District Attorney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alvin-bragg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alvin Bragg</a> is ready to sacrifice &#8220;Truth, Justice, and the American Way&#8221; like some sort of bloated bizarro Superman in order to take down the Left&#8217;s ultimate villain, former President Donald J. Trump.
Bragg knows nabbing Trump would make him the Democratic Party&#8217;s &#8220;Man of Steel&#8221; — even as his soft-on-crimes policies flood the Big Apple&#8217;s mean streets with criminals. It could even launch him to a higher office.
Some have speculated that Bragg is a 4-D chess grandmaster; pursuing an indictment would help Trump secure the 2024 GOP nomination, thereby ensuring President Joe Biden beats him again. Others say that the prosecutor is taking orders from the U.S. Department of Justice. Many even believe that the Left fears Trump and want him behind bars, U.S. Constitution be damned.
All those theories have one thing in common: They give way too much credit to the Democrats&#8217; hive-mind intellect.
The real play here is much simpler. Bragg is just the latest in a long line of local prosecutors chasing a trophy based on trumped-up charges for his own selfish reasons.
Remember North Carolina&#8217;s Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong in the infamous Duke University lacrosse rape hoax nearly two decades ago? Nifong was willing to throw a group of college kids in the slammer and ruin their lives all for the sake of winning re-election and currying political favor with the anti-Duke townies and full-year residents. The indictments of the young men were entirely crooked, but he attempted to do it because the ends — winning re-election — justified the means.
Bragg is following an old trail blazed by ruthless prosecutors like Nifong. Nailing Trump could help him distract his own voters from the rampant crime he is allowing and become the toast of the liberal chattering class. Mayor Bragg? Governor Bragg? The sky is the limit — as long as he isn&#8217;t bothered by the national and historic implications of arresting a former and possibly future president on a case legal experts say is breathtakingly bogus.
Bragg is another prosecutor funded by George Soros, the billionaire who seems hellbent on turning blue cities into dystopian nightmares. You&#8217;ll find them wherever crime is on the rise: In Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, St. Louis, and on and on. They believe the system is rigged against black people and certain other minorities in America. Their solution is to go easy on killers, rapists, and robbers and, in Bragg&#8217;s case, criminalize conservatives instead.
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The approach always generates rising crime, and it is not guaranteed to help the political fortunes of the practitioners, no matter how much money Sugar Daddy Soros pours into their re-election campaigns. Ex-San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin learned that lesson when he got recalled for helping turn his city into a dangerous dump.
New York doesn&#8217;t have a DA recall procedure like the Golden State, but that doesn&#8217;t mean Bragg is safe from scrutiny. Fellow Democrat and New York City Mayor Eric Adams has spent most of the last year branding Bragg a &#8220;<a href="https://nypost.com/2022/06/06/mayor-adams-calls-nycs-criminal-justice-system-laughingstock/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">laughingstock</a>&#8221; for his leniency and record on crime.
Bragg surely knows nobody will be laughing if he brings down Trump.
As one former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3751267-will-alvin-bragg-get-the-trump-bragging-rights/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">put it last fall</a>, Bragg would have all-time &#8220;bragging rights&#8221; over every other law enforcement agency — U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, Fulton County District Attorney Fami Ellis, and even former FBI Director James Comey — investigating Trump for other legal matters.
With an entry like that on his resume, Bragg might even have a fallback plan if his perverted brand of public service doesn&#8217;t work out: His own show on MSNBC.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks at a press conference after the sentencing hearing of the Trump Organization at the New York Supreme Court on January 13, 2023 in New York City

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An American man being treated for prostate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cancer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cancer</a> suddenly developed an Irish accent, possibly because of his disease.
According to an article in the medical journal BMJ Case Reports, the unnamed man was being treated for prostate cancer at Duke University Medical Center. During his treatment, he suddenly started speaking in an Irish brogue, despite never having been to Ireland nor having immediate family from the country. Researchers diagnosed him with foreign accent syndrome, possibly triggered by an immune system response.
&#8220;A man in his 50s with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer, receiving androgen deprivation therapy and abiraterone acetate/prednisone, presented with an uncontrollable ‘Irish brogue’ accent despite no Irish background, consistent with foreign accent syndrome (FAS),&#8221; <a href="https://casereports.bmj.com/content/16/1/e251655" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BMJ Case Reports</a> noted. &#8220;He had no neurological examination abnormalities, psychiatric history or MRI of the brain abnormalities at symptom onset. Imaging revealed progression of his prostate cancer, despite undetectable prostate-specific antigen levels.&#8221;
Foreign accent syndrome is a rare condition in which patients suddenly develop speech patterns different from their native accent, without having picked up another accent from its native place. The condition usually results from a stroke, but it can also be caused by head trauma, migraines, a developmental disorder, lesions in the brain, or a mental illness. In most cases, the change is temporary and can be fixed with intensive speech therapy, but in some cases, the change is permanent, The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/16/us-cancer-patient-develops-uncontrollable-irish-accent-doctors-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Guardian</a> reported.
“His accent was uncontrollable, present in all settings and gradually became persistent,” the BMJ report stated.
The Guardian reported that the man had lived in England in his 20s, and had friends and distant family who were Irish, but had never actually been to the Emerald Isle, nor had he previously spoken in the Irish accent. He maintained the accent through about 20 months of treatment, the outlet reported.
“To our knowledge, this is the first case of FAS described in a patient with prostate cancer and the third described in a patient with malignancy,” the report stated.
One of the authors of the paper, Dr. Andrew Armstrong of Duke Medical Center&#8217;s Divisions of Medical Oncology and Urology, told <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/south-carolina-man-develops-thick-irish-accent-mysterious-syndrome-1780497" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsweek</a> that because this phenomenon is so new, it is hard to find a cause for the patient&#8217;s FAS. &#8220;We don&#8217;t have a &#8216;smoking gun&#8217; explanation in this case,&#8221; Armstrong said. &#8220;Other possibilities are psychological, although he did not have major issues with anxiety or depression and actually was fairly amused by this FAS development.&#8221;
&#8220;It is possible that this had a physical cause in his language center,&#8221; Armstrong added. &#8220;FAS can take many accent forms in different patients, and I assume prior knowledge of an accent is common. This is my first case personally. It is quite rare to see in oncology.&#8221;
The patient was diagnosed with small cell neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC), an aggressive form of cancer that targets the nervous and endocrine systems. The report concluded that foreign accent syndrome was a novel &#8220;presenting manifestation&#8221; of NEPC. The presentation of FAS was consistent with an underlying <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/paraneoplastic-syndromes/symptoms-causes/syc-20355687" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paraneoplastic neurological disorder</a> (PND), an immune system reaction to a cancerous tumor where the cancer-fighting agent also attacks the brain or nervous system.
Unfortunately, the man&#8217;s condition only worsened. &#8220;Despite chemotherapy, his NEPC progressed resulting in multifocal brain metastases and a likely paraneoplastic ascending paralysis leading to his death,&#8221; the report stated.

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American Man’s Prostate Cancer May Have Caused Him To Suddenly Develop An Irish Accent

American Man's Prostate Cancer May Have Caused Him To Suddenly Develop An Irish Accent

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