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> Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, a former associate dean of curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, is chairman of Do No Harm.

> We are a national association of medical professionals combating the attack on our healthcare system from woke activists.

As a rule, posting an article from NY Post is rarely a good idea if there's an alternative. This one was written by a person that has a direct interest in the case.

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It's -- it's an op-ed. Not an article. Of course the person has an interest in it, that's why they wrote an op-ed. All of the papers have a similar section with opinionated pieces.

The NYTimes piece on the same subject[1] is _also_ on the opinion page. It's not a journalistic reporting of fact either, as some here seem to think.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/05/opinion/nyu-chemistry-fir...

I too am always skeptical of NY Post articles, but are you proposing that it's better to have such a warning written by someone who doesn't have direct knowledge and experience about medical schools? It could be argued that the reason he has a direct interest in the case is because he understands it better than the layperson, and cares about it more than the layperson.

Now there's a dilemma for reporting on NY, as the New York Times on the other hand usually throws their lot in with the woke camp.

Not lately.

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