Volume 81, no. 7 July 2025
Your mother might have encouraged you when other kids said mean things: “words will never hurt you.” But words are more powerful than sticks and stones. False accusations can ruin your career, as in sham peer review, unwarranted reports to medical boards, or sexual harassment allegations.
Saying the wrong words today can also ruin you, if you are accused of microaggression, misgendering, or misinformation.
Changing the meaning of words can also make evil seem good, or good evil—and even destroy a civilization.
As George Orwell wrote in his essay “Politics and the English Language”: “In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible…. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness…. Consider for instance some comfortable English professor defending Russian totalitarianism. He cannot say outright, ‘I believe in killing off your opponents when you can get good results by doing so’” (https://tinyurl.com/mw8ey68e).
Political language, including that in medical journals, is generally complex and elaborate. Orwell writes: “The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism…. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink…. Political language…is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
Corruption of Medical Language
Mainstream medical organizations avoid plain language such as “chemical or surgical castration and mutilation of children.” Instead, they promote “gender-affirming care” and “protecting the rights of transgender people.” Sex is merely a classification “assigned at birth.” Prostitution is now “sex work,” and perversions and debauchery are inherent traits or lifestyle choices that “educators” need to present to kindergartners so they can find their “authentic selves.” Those who disagree are called “fascists,” though as Orwell points out, “the word ‘fascism’ has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable.’”
Abortion is called “reproductive healthcare,” and according to the American Medical Association is considered a matter of public health, “equity,” and “justice.” A USAID-funded strategy for “reproductive health” forcibly sterilized 300,000 Peruvian women between 1996 and 2000 (https://tinyurl.com/yzanu397).
The term “murder” has evolved. Dr. Jack Kevorkian assisted in the deaths of 130 terminally ill people between 1990 and 1998. In each of these cases, the individuals themselves allegedly took the final action that resulted in their own deaths, after Kevorkian attached them to a device that released the lethal drugs or chemicals when they pushed a button. In 1998, Kevorkian himself administered a lethal injection to Thomas Youk, a patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis—it was videotaped and shown on national TV. He was convicted of second-degree murder and served eight years of a 10-to-25-year prison sentence.
Kevorkian likened himself to Martin Luther King and Gandhi and called prosecutors Nazis and his critics religious fanatics. He advocated the establishment of “obitoriums,” where doctors could harvest organs and perform medical experiments during the suicide process (https://tinyurl.com/5n8pb6hx).
Terminology is changing. The AMA-preferred term of “physician-assisted suicide” is criticized because of the cultural stigma of suicide. “Medical aid in dying (MAiD)” is the current preference. The lethal cocktail, comparable to that used in executions, is often administered intravenously by a clinician—and might cause a torturous death (https://tinyurl.com/2353ykxj). The AMA House of Delegates is once again considering a change in its position from oppose to neutral.
Kevorkian started the shift in the Overton Window through which people view an idea on a spectrum from “unthinkable” to “radical” to “acceptable” to “sensible” to “popular.” At present, about 1 in 20 deaths in Canada are physician assisted (https://tinyurl.com/3z4ezxr9).
First They Came for…
A recent example of variations on Martin Niemöller’s famous quotation, “First they came for the socialists…” (https://tinyurl.com/y4uhen4x) begins, “First they came for the transgender patients…” (Pharos, Spring 2025). In actuality, the Nazis first came for the incurably ill, the physically and mentally disabled, the emotionally distraught, and the elderly. The goal of the Nazi Euthanasia Program, Aktion T4, was to cleanse the race of people who were genetically defective or a financial burden.
And what about today’s America? The poster child may be Grace Schara (see p 3), who had Down syndrome. This is an increasingly rare condition because babies can be diagnosed prenatally and selected for abortion. (Some states have made abortion because of disability illegal.) Post-birth abortion is currently outside the Overton window, but we have denial of care by protocol.
The radical eugenic agenda favored by Sir Julian Huxley would be, as he wrote in UNESCO’s founding documents, “for many years politically and psychologically impossible,” but it was important to examine “the eugenic problem” with the greatest care and to inform the public so that “much that is now unthinkable may at least become thinkable” (tinyurl.com/4bjhta9a).
Flashback: 1921 Eugenics Conference
“I doubt if there has ever been a moment in the world’s history when an international conference on race character and betterment has been more important than the present…. In certain parts of Europe the worst elements of society have gained the ascendancy and threaten the destruction of the best.”
Authorities on eugenics were welcomed, including Jon Alfred Mjøen, “the leader in the vigorous movement of race hygiene in Scandinavia,” and leading students of eugenics in the U.S.
Science 10/7/1921
Malthusian ‘Tools’
The entire system of eugenics advocated by Julian Huxley et al. was merely a repackaging of the theories of population popularized by the British East Company’s star economist Thomas Malthus. He believed that social engineers representing the British Empire must use “crisis points” to scientifically manage the “human herd.” Nature bestowed upon the ruling class certain tools for accomplishing this important task: war, famine, and disease. If we dreaded famine, we should sedulously encourage the other forms of destruction, he wrote. “In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague.”
Malthus extended his logic to the “practical” elimination of unfit or illegitimate children by denying them any form of parish assistance. “The infant is, comparatively speaking, of little value to society, as others will immediately supply its place.”
Millions of Irish starved in the potato famine, despite abundant harvests, because of the repeal of the Corn Laws. At the time, Free Trade agreements demanded that export quotas be maintained even at gun point, despite mass starvation. In 1877 alone, more than ten million Indians died of British-directed famines (https://tinyurl.com/4bjhta9a).
Weaponizing Disease
Dr. Peter Marks, who resigned under pressure from his position as director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, warned of imminent danger of biowarfare attacks. As of 2007, the U.S. alone had 1,356 BSL-3 biolabs and 15 BSL-4 biolabs, which often house modified pathogens (viruses, bacteria, fungi) with pandemic potential (tinyurl.com/4d8m4rds).
Many scary scenarios of bioterrorism with a genetically engineered supervirus like in Richard Preston’s 1997 novel The Cobra Event have been proposed, from which the federal government needs to protect us (https://tinyurl.com/y88ttaje).
The official U.S. biowarfare program began in 1943 and weaponized seven agents. In 1969, all such research was repurposed for “defensive” uses.
An unsolvable problem with BW is the inability to make an agent both lethal and highly spreadable. But while weak as weapons, BW agents are very powerful as a psychological manipulation tool (https://tinyurl.com/yf63w2h6), and billions can be made to accept injection of a “countermeasure.”
“Elegance of language must give way to simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.” —Giorlamo Savonarola
Report of Nominating Committee
The following slate will be presented at the annual meeting: President-elect: Sekhar Doniparthi, M.D., Yuma, AZ
Secretary: Lawrence Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Eden, NY
Treasurer: Tamzin Rosenwasser, M.D., Venice, FL
Board of Directors: Roland Chalifoux D.O., Clairsville, OH; Dan Giurgiu, M.D., San Diego, CA; Jane Hughes, M.D., San Antonio, TX; Renée Kohanski, M.D., Somerset, NJ; Lisa Mainier, D.O., Erie, PA
Resolutions
Additional resolutions to be presented at the annual meeting:
RES. 25-02: Opposition to Physician Participation in Killing
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons unequivocally opposes all forms of murder, including euthanasia, intentionally killing a living fetus which would otherwise have a chance to survive, “Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD),” and any and all other forms of murder regardless of euphemisms. (full text: aaps.pub/res2502)
RES. 25-03: Opposition to Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD)
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons opposes all forms of “Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD)” or any other term for euthanasia. (full text: aaps.pub/res2503)
No Proof of Effectiveness
While FDA deplored use of repurposed drugs for COVID because there was insufficient evidence of effectiveness, hundreds of drugs have been approved without proof that they work, despite evidence of harm. A review of more than 400 drug approvals between 2013 and 2022 found that 73% failed to meet all four basic criteria—the bedrock of drug evaluation—for demonstrating “substantial evidence” of effectiveness. These are: presence of a control group, replication in two well-conducted trials, blinding of participants and investigators, and the use of clinical endpoints like symptom relief or extended survival. Forty drugs met none of the criteria. If drugs are fast-tracked, nearly half of the required follow-up studies are never completed—and those that are often fail to show the drugs work, even while they remain on the market. “For now, patients remain unwitting participants in a vast, unspoken experiment”—trusting a regulator that fails to protect them (https://tinyurl.com/453zny58).
AAPS Calendar
Sep 11-13. 82nd Annual Meeting, Chantilly, VA.
Sep 24-26, 2026. 83rd Annual Meeting, Alpharetta, GA – https://aapsonline.org/2025am
ACTION OF THE MONTH
Save the dates of September 11-13, 2025 for the 82nd Annual Meeting of AAPS. Consider donating to bring students to our meeting at https://aapsonline.org/scholarships.
Hospital Wins in Schara Case
In the wrongful death case involving the 2021 death of 19-year-old Grace Schara, who had Down syndrome, a jury in Appleton decided in favor of Ascension NE Wisconsin St. Elizabeth Hospital. The patient had been admitted for COVID symptoms. The family alleged that she had been declared a “do-not-resuscitate” patient without consent and was given a nonconsensual injection of precedex, lorazepam, and morphine. When Grace stopped breathing, nurses refused to intervene because of the DNR, although a dose of Narcan might have saved her. The hospital had required her father to leave the room and only allowed her sister to be with her when the family hired an attorney to argue its case against the hospital. The patient also had an untreated metabolic acidosis (https://tinyurl.com/3x348fvv).
Dr. Meryl Nass points out that hospitals may receive significantly more in reimbursement for dead COVID patients than for cured COVID patients. After reviewing the documents Grace’s father had collected, she concluded that Grace was not terminally ill and that the cocktail of drugs she received were given in doses only appropriate for euthanasia (https://tinyurl.com/mtz9xy7b).
The Scharas’ attorney stated that “when you go into a hospital, you sign your rights away” (https://tinyurl.com/ykspjc78).
Law Banning Child Mutilation Upheld
In U.S. v. Skrmetti, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law that prohibits prescription of puberty-blocking drugs, cross-sex hormones, or surgery for gender dysphoria in minors.
In reporting on it, “even America’s ostensible paper of record [the NY Times] has to speak in code, in its own pages,” writes Matt Taibbi. “The paper swapped one preposterous bespoke language innovation (‘sex assigned at birth’) for an even more nebulous and confusing one: ‘gender…assigned at birth’” (tinyurl.com/bdhhzdsa).
The Wall Street Journal framed the decision as “the latest setback to transgender rights”—not as the latest victory for parental rights (https://tinyurl.com/yzfe892t).
In its 6-to-3 decision, the Court held that the relatively low level of scrutiny, “rational basis,” was adequate to determine constitutionality, as the law classified people on the basis of age, not sex (https://tinyurl.com/zbuajwnf).
A brief filed by AAPS and other organizations states that “while there is no evidence that such ‘treatments’ actually benefit vulnerable children, there is plenty of evidence these interventions
financially benefit those who perform them.” It is estimated that in 2025, $1.8 billion dollars will be spent on hormones and $3.4 billion dollars on surgery. And there are enormous risks and harms to patients (https://tinyurl.com/5p6awj3d).
SAFE Act Still Blocked
The 2021 Arkansas Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act or Act 626, similar to Tennessee’s law, is still blocked pending action by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. The SCOTUS decision may result in this law’s going into effect.
Like in other states, virtually every major hospital system lobbied against the bill. A tipping point occurred in 2023, when the number of states with laws protecting minors from “gender- transition” procedures increased from four to 22, as the dangerous experimental nature of these procedures became increasingly apparent. European countries such as the UK, Norway, and Denmark pulled back. Why couldn’t hospitals see this?
The American Principles Project (APP) commissioned a market analysis. Underestimates may result from difficulty in finding complete data sets. To gain insurance coverage, treatments may be coded as “endocrine disorder not otherwise specified.” Transgender activist Robbi Katherine Anthony multiplied the number of transgender-identifying Americans with the average cost of transition to speculate that the potential gender transition market could be valued in excess of $200 billion, “larger than the entire film industry.” The APP estimated that the “total cost of fully transitioning” ranges from $87,300–$410,600 for males and from $66,500–$605,500 for females (tinyurl.com/yz5ss4u6).
Harvard-affiliated authors lament the “rising policy threat” that has already closed 70 clinics, stating that: “Gender-affirming care is a cornerstone of multidisciplinary health support for transgender and nonbinary people; it is widely recognized as essential, evidence-based, and often life-saving” (NEJM 3/13/25).
AAPS Physician Vindicated
In retaliation for his work in fighting voter fraud in Harris County, Texas, Steven Hotze, M.D., has been under multiple politically motivated felony indictments for 4 years. All charges against him have been dismissed, and Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare wrote, “After reviewing the case these charges should not have been filed.”
Since Democrats took over the Harris Tax Assessor Collector office in 2016, they have not updated the voter registration file. More than 205,000 illegal votes were cast in the 2024 General Elections in Harris County by individuals who lived out of the county or out of state (https://tinyurl.com/yddkkkzc).
“The battle for election integrity in Harris County will continue to be waged!” Dr. Hotze writes.
Tip of the Month. Which region has the highest percentage of physicians who have opted out of Medicare? Washington, D.C., where 2.9% of its physicians have opted out. Evidently, they know best how risky it can be to remain in Medicare, subjected to arbitrary audits, clawbacks, and unjust prosecutions. Nationwide, 8.1% of psychiatrists have opted out, the highest proportion of any specialty. In second and third place are plastic and reconstructive surgeons at 4.5% and neurologists at 3.2%. In terms of the numbers of those who have opted out, family medicine physicians comprise 21.5% and internal medicine physicians 13.0%. (https://tinyurl.com/4b7fwcyj). Consider that the first lifeboats deployed from the sinking Titanic had empty seats, but by the end desperate passengers could not find enough room.
Abortion Pill Allowed—for Now
In FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, SCOTUS allowed FDA’s expansion of access to mifepristone, now used in more than half of abortions, to stand (JAMA 11/13/24). HHS Secretary Kennedy has now ordered a top-down safety study after a report that nearly 11% of women experience severe or life-threatening complications (https://tinyurl.com/yn6zr372).
Correspondence
MAiD Passed in New York. NY is the 11th state to pass the Medical Aid in Dying Act. Once the “culture of death” is legally approved, an “expansion” occurs. Quebec has gone forward to permit euthanasia for those suffering from Alzheimer’s disease via “advance directive.” Once a patient signs an “advance directive” for euthanasia, it is essentially written in stone. There is no changing one’s mind later if one decides one would like to live. Ultimately, some of these euthanasia laws will expand to the point where someone else will determine for you what is in your best interest—no consent needed.
Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Eden, N.Y.
The Suicide of England. Women in England have ensured they can kill off their offspring, right up until the moment of birth, and, as these things go, likely for some time after that, too. A law on the verge of passage could enable England’s rulers to make it mandatory to start killing off people at the other end of life. Old and unhappy English, or their representatives, will now to be able to ask quacks to kill them, or their charges. A third set of laws outlaws and punishes “hate,” such as silently praying outside an abortion clinic, which might make someone feel bad.
Now there is a strong (Enlightenment) utilitarian impulse to kill off those considered useless. And that it is best to have Experts doing the slaughtering. We’ve already seen in other countries that the Slippery Slope of doctor killings is well greased. Misapplied pity, and many lures of utilitarianism, will broaden the categories of eligibility inexorably. Outside war, abortion is the most efficient means of killing, abetted greatly here by disallowing any live critique. The second most efficient way is to prevent conception in the first place. And this Pride (in all its glories) does nicely, also accompanied by laws that make it illegal to criticize.
William M. Briggs, Ph.D., https://tinyurl.com/ywewm4as
Fired for Wrong Think. At a Heritage Foundation panel in 2017, child psychiatrist Allan Josephson, chairman of the University of Louisville’s Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology for 14 years, said, “Transgender ideology…is neglectful of the need for developing coping skills and problem-solving skills in children.” Five days later, the executive director of the university’s LGBT Center got him removed from his chairmanship. The faculty began to scour his notes on patients’ clinical charts to find evidence of bad practice. By 2019, the University of Louisville would not renew his contract. He won a $1.6 million lawsuit, but none of his accusers got into trouble.
Douglas Farrago M.D., https://tinyurl.com/2f4sctew
One Health. In the 10 days before the Trump inauguration, the CDC committed to the agenda that has dominated thinking in global institutions since COVID. The agenda is buried in incredibly opaque neologisms. The point is to be as boring as possible when you write up your plan to abolish human rights. As of now, the U.S. is officially committed to working with the WHO to implement a bureaucracy-wide and global plan for One Health, which posits that the value of a human life is no greater than that of any living thing.
Jeffrey Tucker, https://tinyurl.com/3y9ufazm
Moderna Contracts Cancelled. On May 28, HHS officially terminated its $700 million partnership with Moderna to develop and stockpile a vaccine for the H5N1 avian influenza virus, citing a failure to meet “scientific standards or safety expectations.” This is not an abandonment of pandemic preparedness, but a necessary course correction. It affirms that precaution must be rooted in evidence—not speculation, velocity, or brand prestige. It was the reassertion of science as a method—not a marketing tool.
James Lyons-Weiler, Ph.D., https://tinyurl.com/yc7s46be
Don’t Ask Permission. Why do some of the most intelligent, skilled people on the planet cower to payers, obey nonprofits, and beg for scraps from the system? Doctors can change it. But if you want out, you’ll have to build out. Doctors need to be owners. The system won’t collapse overnight. But it will erode, one independent, defiant physician at a time.
Dutch Rojas, https://tinyurl.com/c4bwesm7
Dismantling Science. A quarter of U.S. science funding is now “diversity, gender, race”-based, class-warfare research. Government-funded science is not so much a search for truth as a new chapter in the Communist Manifesto (tinyurl.com/2fm4ajuw).
Willie Soon Ph.D., Salem, MA
AAP Denounces Skrmetti Decision. The American Academy of Pediatrics denounced the Supreme Court decision upholding a ban on “gender-affirming care” to minors, calling it a “dangerous precedent” that “undermines health” and “robs patients of dignity” (https://tinyurl.com/5auk27s5). AAP filed an amicus brief (https://tinyurl.com/2x6n2vmz). I would suggest that the crime be called what it is, medical battery—and that criminal and civil sanctions be imposed on persons who prescribe these medical and surgical treatments knowing that the phenomenon is psychiatric. It’s worse than the frontal lobotomy craziness. The patients’ delusion is enabled by unethical physicians.
John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownville, TX
