John Hinderaker writes for the Powerline blog about one medical publication’s latest journalistic misstep.
The Lancet, headquartered in Britain, was once a respected medical journal. Now, it is mostly a left-wing rag. The current issue, just out, leads with an editorial titled “2025: an annus horribilis for health in the USA.” Really? Our health has gone downhill? Has life expectancy declined? Was there an epidemic that I missed?
No. The entire editorial is an anti-Trump screed. 2025 was a horrible year, not for Americans’ health, but for left-wing preferences in health care policy. Thus:
“Federal funding cuts had occurred under Joe Biden and mistrust in the nation’s health leaders has been waning over time, but the goal of the Trump administration now seems to be to tear down the world’s premiere scientific infrastructure.”
Has mistrust in health “experts” been waning? Not that I have noticed. And the laughable partisanship of organs like the Lancet is a major reason why.
Look no further than many of the targets of Trump’s 218 Executive Orders and actions: the disenfranchised, minoritised and key populations, immigrants, and academics and their institutions.
In other words, that darn Trump isn’t a liberal. What follows is completely unhinged. It might make the DNC blush:
“Undermining science is a well-worn tactic of autocrats—passing ordinances with sweeping powers, installing puppet appointees, and aiming to influence public discourse through censure of academic institutions and those populations deemed as enemies and undesirables.”
Of course, the alternative view of Trump is that he isn’t an “autocrat,” but rather a democratically elected president who is fulfilling his campaign promises.
I think this is a quote from Chuck Schumer:
“The coup de grâce will be if the administration and Congress resolve the debate over the Affordable Care Act’s subsidies humanely, or whether they push millions of people to live without affordable health care after Dec 31.”
