I Was Wrong - on something important

Summary: Professor Vincent Lloyda, Director of Africana Studies at Villanova, experienced horror while teaching a seminar for advanced high school students. The class was influenced, then taken over by two college assistants. The class at the beginning was happy and engaged intellectually, then unhappy and cowed by endless accusations of micro aggression, race wronging, etc. ................................................................................................................................ His words: On the sunny first day of seminar, I sat at the end of a pair of picnic tables with nervous, excited 17-year-olds. Twelve high-school students had been chosen by the Telluride Association through a rigorous application process—the acceptance rate is reportedly around 3 percent—to spend six weeks together taking a college-level course, all expenses paid. The group reminded me of the heroes of the Mysterious Benedict Society books I was reading to my daughter: Each teenager,

Jamie Reed, self identifying Progressive, got a job in 2018 with the Washington University Transgender Center at St Louis Children's Hospital. She was a true believer in facilitating gender transitioning of children in their early teens. After several years of seeing the results of this she is working with a Republican State Attorney General to stop the gender transitioning of children. Below is her report There are more than 100 pediatric gender clinics across the U.S. I worked at one. What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling. By Jamie Reed February 9, 2023 I am a 42-year-old St. Louis native, a queer woman, and politically to the left of Bernie Sanders. My worldview has deeply shaped my career. I have spent my professional life providing counseling to vulnerable populations: children in foster care, sexual minorities, the poor. For almost four years, I worked at The Washington University School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases with te

(some people think Kevin Bass has changed his mind for publicity or for money - who knows -- if he re confesses and I find out, I'll put it in the blog) Kevin Bass is an medical student and PhD student per his twitter page. He wrote a twitter post in December 2022 and has followed it up with columns in Newsweek and elsewhere. The basic story is that he supported the total Covid response including lockdowns, near mandatory masking, near mandatory vaccination and so forth because he was in the medical tribe and his tribal loyalty overcame him. However now he realizes that the Covid response was wrong and that at the time of the response measures, this wrongness was obvious. From Newsweek ......................................................................................................................... As a medical student and researcher, I staunchly supported the efforts of the public health authorities when it came to COVID-19. I believed that the authorities responded to