Harvard University is facing another controversy after its medical school held an event on “the Pathology of Unruly Bodies.” The most surprising part is that it was not a reference to the Harvard faculty itself. Rather, a panel composed of non-medical experts was railing against anti-obesity drugs as part of “indoctrination” to support the ills of “empire and imperialism.” Welcome to the state of higher education in America.
The panel was devoid of actual medical experts. It was dressed up in medical terms with the use of the word “pathology.” It could have easily been billed as “GLP-1 Anti-Body.” The panel included such experts as Da’Shaun L Harrison, who recently drew notoriety for claiming at the Socialism 2026 conference in Chicago that GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic and Zepbound constitute “genocide” against fat people.
Another headliner was Roxane Gay, the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University–New Brunswick and the artist-in-residence at Harvard Medical School. Professor Gay (the cousin of former Harvard University President Claudine Gay) had called for the release of Luigi Mangione, who murdered Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, two years ago.
Despite her extremism and penchant for murderers like Mangione, Gay writes for the New York Times and apparently likes to flip off people in public. Harvard decided she was exactly what they needed to help shape their medical students. She is part of the radical chic of higher education, where no views are too far left (while departments purge conservatives and libertarians).
Harrison quickly picked up where she left off at the Socialist Convention with bizarre claims. Rather than claiming that drug companies were engaging in the genocide of fat people with weight-loss drugs, she explained that the companies were really militarizing an imperialist state: “This practice of forcing people into manipulating and changing or shifting how they look is oftentimes about making bodies militarisable. Building up a military to defend an imperialist state.”
She further claimed:
“A lot of doctors, medical professionals and folks who collaborate with them — be it through the government or media — are advocating for atrocities that are directly impacting our citizens, but also citizens around the globe.
It then becomes about creating this ideal body that you are always being pushed and pulled towards, as a way to represent this patriotism that is intended to indoctrinate one into the military, into the defense of the country.”
So the country is now Zepbound for tyranny. The suggestion that weight loss drugs serve imperialist, militaristic goals is obviously bonkers. It is the kind of raving you would expect on a subway from someone wearing a handmade cardboard sign and a tin foil hat.
However, Harvard Medical School views that person as a serious expert on the pathologies of weight loss.
Notably, not a single Harvard faculty member expressed unease over the programming. Medical students are facing an array of tough technological and economic conditions. Yet, the administration wants them to sit through far-left indoctrinations from the likes of Gay and Harrison.
Harvard is not alone. Various medical schools have incorporated radical social agendas into their curricula or events. We recently discussed how UCLA Medical School held a panel on which psychiatrists defended self-immolation in protesting Israel. In an earlier post, we discussed a mandatory lecture at UCLA of one of the university’s “activists-in-residence” replete with anti-Semitic postings and racist rhetoric.
The hiring of figures like Gay and the radical programs at these schools show that faculty have little intention to change the ideological echo chamber in higher education. It is truly a pathology of unruly bodies.
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the New York Times best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
Isn’t America fascinating? On the one hand, you have historical figures like the 989 billionaires who have achieved the impossible, Elon Musk the standout among them, and then you have the absolute low-life parasites who believe they have a right to simply demand other people’s money to do with what they may.
Thou Shalt Not Covet
Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness.
Thou Shalt Not Steal
The American Founders are rolling over in their graves considering the rise of communism and its useless parasites.
Imagine the masses and voters in America have been propagandized and indoctrinated by the teachers’ unions for generations into this twisted and devastating thinking.
I had a dream that drivers at a Tesla charging station were shot up.
This blog is an ideological echo chamber.
Aren’t you glad I exposed this truth so that something can be done about it?
It’s part of antifa fascism. Ms. Gay is the cultural portion.
Trump’s DOJ is suing to block certification of the Alaska senate vote if the Republican candidate loses.
The Republican candidate is Daniel S. Sullivan. There is an independent candidate Daniel J. Sullivan.
Alaska uses a ranked-choice voting system, and the suit alleges that Republican voters will be confused and rank the independent candidate higher than the Republican.
What the DOJ is actually acknowledging is that Republican voters are too stupid to figure out the ballot choices.
All voters are easily confused by ballots with two people with the same name.
Is the point of criticism to stop something?
To achieve her goal of banning these wealth producing, terrible, militaristic drugs, Harvard must lead by example and divide their 60 billion dollar endowment among those who prefer to stuff their faces, thereby resisting our government’s attempts to prepare us for war.
For a million bucks I’ll eat nothing but Harvard cafeteria treats.
The Left, being a cult, have never been known to follow the science™
Obesity-associated cancers
Being overweight or having obesity are associated with a higher risk of getting 13 types of cancer. These cancers make up 40% of all cancers diagnosed in the United States each year.
Adenocarcinoma of the esophagus.
Breast (in women who have gone through menopause).
Colon and rectum.
Uterus.
Gallbladder.
Upper stomach.
Kidneys.
Liver.
Ovaries.
Pancreas.
Thyroid.
Meningioma (a type of brain cancer).
Multiple myeloma.
https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/risk-factors/obesity.html
What could be a possible reason that no Harvard Medical School faculty spoke out against this absurd seminar railing against the use of disease-modifying GLP-1 medications? This class of drugs, if used appropriately, will alter the natural history of obesity-related and diabetes-associated fatty liver disease destined for to develop into cirrhosis and liver failure, and into liver cancer. Fatty liver-associated liver failure is a leading indication for liver transplantation, at a cost of about $1 million a pop. Harvard/Mass General Brigham is center of excellence for liver transplantation and will likely be negatively impacted financially if the need for liver transplantation is significantly reduced by the use of GLP-1 medications, to say nothing about the reduction in patient morbidity when chronic liver disease and cirrhosis are prevented, and diabetes is controlled. It really was, and is, the duty of the Hepatology faculty at Harvard Medical School to publicly speak out against the nonsense promulgated at this conference unless, of course, medical school and hospital administration have cautioned them not to do so since successful, widespread use of GLP-1 medications would likely reduce the need for lucrative liver transplantation income in the future. As with most of higher education today, and especially medical school education and hospital administration, it’s all about the money.
And yet you still want there to be the freedom of practicing ones religion, not matter how irrational the religion is.
“no matter”
Would you prefer the government tell people what religion they have to practice?
Being a leftist is a religion. They have their oracles, their sacred texts, their purging rituals, their long list of condemnations, anathemas, forbidden thoughts/behaviors/words. Alas there is no redemption in their religion so there is that: prideful, angry, greedy, envious, etc Heck, they dont even reproduce! it would be tempting to call them virgins but…..nah.
Well Said, Prof. Turley… seen in context of the Bigger Problem.. that DEI is still alive & well.. one can only gasp at the kind of ‘Doctors’ Harvard is still hell-bent on producing! Years ago, my brother went to medical school, working hard at a normal university to get there.. DEI was just getting started then and he still says that those students clearly ‘STRUGGLED’ in the courses back then… this is before the big shift catering to DEI started.. as reported later.. like giving DEI students easier grade scales, etc. to help them out… All of this has helped fuel the growth of other modalities to stay well… e.g., working with NDs, not MDs..
Dexadrine is a perfectly acceptable weight loss drug and harmless. There’s not a need for glp. It could be harmful.
Not true. Studies have long ago shown that the weight loss achieved with Dexedrine is not sustainable when Dexedrine is discontinued and that long-term, continued use of Dexedrine and other amphetamines leads to psychosis.
Long term or greater than one year? Healthy lifestyles are dependent upon the human will and a vision within a person to be healthy.
Vincente, dexadrine is being given to children in a form such as Ritalin and Adderall. It’s diluted.
Fyi, my comment wasnt serious because of drug abuse. 😏
This is what happens when you close mental institutions and insane asylums.
Just when you thought these far left nutjobs couldn’t get any nuttier….
Oh well…. It’s still up to parents to monitor what their kids are being indoctrinated with at these sad jokes pretending to be “higher education” these days. And, if you don’t immediately stop paying for your kids to go there, the detriment to their futures will be on you.
We need to defund those indoctrination camps. No taxpayer money should ever go to these awful places, no government-backed student loans should ever be allowed to go there, and nobody with a brain should ever pay their own hard-earned money for their children to go there.
That paper is pretty much worthless in the real world of employment these days.
It’s their right and there is no law against it.
Gee, I thought this blog was about upholding freedoms and rights.
You thought right. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to criticize other people’s speech.
OldManFromKS,
You are correct.
However, as we have seen, the far leftist illiberals say criticizing their speech is hate speech and you have to be silenced and or canceled.
Amen
To those on the left the only speech allowed is their speech.
As Brandeis said 100 years ago the aswer to bad speech is more speech
also known as criticism.
There proffessors said something
Turley responded, and each of us get to respond either to turley or to the speech of the professors,
And eventually over time we slowly approach the truth.
Being named Gay, Fat, and Black really does check the boxes, doesn’t it? And who should we blame for this physiological trifecta? Throw in LGBTQ or undocumented status and it’s a multigenic marvel worthy of intense study at Harvard.
anti-fascism—so passe. Now it will be anti-fattism that will raise the rage, n’est ce pas?
Stop and think. Who’s really getting $$$Phat*$$$ here? (sponsored by academia and media)?
*https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phat
I wouldn’t allow myself to be treated by any recent graduate of Harvard Medical School. The answer is to boycott all Ivy League graduates and not give them any money.
Roxane Gay underwent bariatric (weight-loss) surgery, specifically a vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG), in January 2018. She publicly detailed her experience and the complex emotions surrounding it in her widely discussed April 2018 essay, What Fullness Is.
So if GPL-1 drugs to control weight gain is imperialistic why isn’t bariatric surgery that effectively causes the same result imperialistic. Perhaps GPL-1 drugs came from a wet market rather than a laboratory in China. Twisted sister does quite well at The New York Times.
excellent!
I have had family members who have succumbed to Diabetes. It’s a terrible progressive condition that causes its victims to pray for death. So now trying to prevent a person from using a drug that can end such misery is somehow imperialistic. These people will tell you over and over again about how much they care for and want to save people through socialism. No matter what the subject they will twist it to support their love of the collective government philosophy. What the hell. If people must die a miserable death so that their cause may be advanced then so be it. Don’t you see we love you little people and we are just looking out for you? Well I guess it’s one way to punch a meal ticket while the cowards on the faculty snivel in the corner. The cowards are the most hated.
Socialism always degrades to tyrany – that is automatic.
When people make their own choices – it is very hard to punish them for those choices. Reality will punish or reward them automatically.
But when choices are made socially – not individually, it is very very easy for the group to punish those who deviate from the choices society demands.
How is force alleged? Who is forced to take a GLP?
It isn’t and therefore is NOT a “social” problem – and certainly not a government one.
No one. Yet.
However we see Pete Hegseth selecting, not for merit, but for body type for military persons to attend public events. Perhaps cannot hit a target at 10 feet with a brick, but is slim. That’s the choice Hegseth is looking to force on all under his command.
Roxane Gay saw obesity as a big enough problem that she got bariatric surgery. So her personal perspective might actually be useful for physicians to hear.
For interest: she got a doctorate in tech writing at Michigan Tech, and taught it at Purdue, before becoming a general expert and bouncing around academia.