{"id":7626,"date":"2014-10-23T05:28:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T05:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/10\/23\/another-reason-for-ideological-quarantine\/"},"modified":"2014-10-23T05:28:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T05:28:02","slug":"another-reason-for-ideological-quarantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/10\/23\/another-reason-for-ideological-quarantine\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Reason for Ideological Quarantine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heather Mac Donald, Infected by Politics<\/a>, opening paragraph (emphasis added):<\/span><\/p>\n

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The public-health establishment has unanimously opposed a travel and visa moratorium from Ebola-plagued West African countries to protect the U.S. population. To evaluate whether this opposition rests on purely scientific grounds, it helps to understand the political character of the public-health field. For the last several decades, the profession has been awash in social-justice ideology<\/a>. Many of its members view racism, sexism, and economic inequality, rather than individual behavior, as the primary drivers of differential health outcomes in the U.S. According to mainstream public-health thinking, publicizing the behavioral choices behind bad health\u2014promiscuous sex, drug use, overeating, or lack of exercise\u2014blames the victim.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We need ideological quarantine to keep sane but susceptible people from being infected by pernicious ideological viruses.  I mean, how willfully stupid can a willfully stupid liberal be?  And should we allow liberals  around the impressionable and uncritical?  We need to think about appropriate measures for social prophylaxis.<\/span><\/p>\n

And what exactly is wrong with blaming the victim, within limits?  As you might expect, I have written a post on this topic entitled, as again you might expect, On Blaming the Victim<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Heather Mac Donald, Infected by Politics, opening paragraph (emphasis added): The public-health establishment has unanimously opposed a travel and visa moratorium from Ebola-plagued West African countries to protect the U.S. population. To evaluate whether this opposition rests on purely scientific grounds, it helps to understand the political character of the public-health field. For the last … Continue reading “Another Reason for Ideological Quarantine”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-fitness","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}