Mon Dec 12, 2022 – 4:32 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – A new report details how the American Academy of Pediatrics strayed from providing important medical information to parents to instead working as a leftist activist group.
The report, from Washington Free Beacon reporter Aaron Sibarium explains “how a small group of doctors with virtually unaccountable power can exert tremendous influence over public policy, especially when a new crisis—be it moral or virological—gives them an emergency mandate,” the article, titled “The Hijacking of Pediatric Medicine,” notes.
Based on his investigations, Sibarium reported:
Though the organization’s guidelines are framed as the consensus position of the AAP’s members, only a handful of physicians had a role in shaping them. Instead, insiders say, the AAP is deferring to small, like-minded teams of specialists ensconced in children’s hospitals, research centers, and public health bureaucracies, rather than seeking the insights of pediatricians who see a wide cross-section of America’s children.
They also say a longstanding left-wing bias—over two thirds of pediatricians are registered Democrats—has accelerated, turning the organization into a more overtly political body that now pronounces on issues from climate change to immigration. As rates of gender dysphoria exploded and the Covid-19 pandemic
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