Analysis Finds Medical Journals are Full of ‘Woke’ Language
“dumbs down science and harms policy and practice”
We are going to regret allowing progressive politics to infiltrate medicine.
The College Fix reports:
George Floyd in medical journals: Analysis documents rise of ‘woke terminology’ in research
A new analysis of the digital database that houses millions of academic articles in the biomedical and life sciences fields reveals a love affair with “woke terminology” from about 2020 through 2025 that dumbs down science and harms policy and practice, according to a researcher.
The analysis covers the use of words such as indigenous knowledge, microaggression, justice, safe space, and health equity in medical journals.
Published recently by James Nuzzo, an exercise scientist and men’s health researcher, it documents “woke medical terminology” found on the PubMed database.
For example, the phrase “lived experience” appeared in the titles or abstracts of 10,631 articles indexed in PubMed, and “transgender” appeared in the titles or abstracts of 15,741 articles.
George Floyd’s death “markedly increased discussions on race in academia, including in health and medical journals,” it states. “In fact, George Floyd’s name appeared in the titles or abstracts of 269 articles indexed in PubMed between 2020 and 2025.”
Nuzzo said the trend is alarming.
“There is no evidence that implementing woke medicine improves health outcomes,” Nuzzo told The College Fix in an email interview. “In fact, the shift away from the individual patient to the patient’s group identity is presumably harmful to the patient.”
He said that “because standards for rigorous scholarship have been lowered in recent years, an inordinate number of woke papers now fill medical research databases with biased studies.”
“Each hour that [medical] students were forced to learn about woke medical concepts was an hour taken away from their learning about biology, diseases, and diagnostic tools,” he said.
Ultimately, this works “to change educational practice, clinical practice, and public policy,” Nuzzo said.
Not all of the research on PubMed is medical, he said, noting some is public health research, meaning that “critical theory is being used to advocate for change in medical practice and public health policies.”
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George Floyd’s name should appear only in Journals of Abuse and Addiction, and only as a cautionary tale. I do wonder when IP will become a normal medical abbreviation (intrapooper). One of my buddies used to describe ketamine as an “intraanywhere” kind of drug, hence its utility in tranq darts.
“I do wonder when IP will become a normal medical abbreviation (intrapooper).”
The street calls it “boofing.”
And not in a Sheldon Whitehouse sort of way.
And again:
Affirmative action destroyed standards.
The Covid Fraud destroyed credibility.
Rampant wokeness destroyed trust.
Hearsay evidence-based medicine.
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