In City Journal, John Tierney laments the scientific community’s descent into partisan politics and propaganda. Tierney sees hope for scientific integrity and academic freedom, however: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Covid dissident Jay Bhattacharya for director of the very National Institutes of Health that colluded with social media to suppress Bhattacharya’s views throughout the pandemic.

Radical Transgenderism Takes Another Hit
The 11,000-member American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) – which includes hundreds of Canadian members – “has come out unequivocally against ‘gender-affirming’ surgeries in adolescents under age 19,” writes Leor Sapir in City Journal. The ASPS has also joined a growing number of international organizations in warning about the potential physical and psychological damage to children and teens of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
[Editor’s note: Two days after the ASPS’s announcement, the American Medical Association announces it now agrees that gender-altering “surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood.”]


