A video circulating on social media shows what looks like a cult ceremony. Like a prayer in too solemn a tone shared by people in a quasi-trance state.
Amazingly, this video features students admitted to the University of Minnesota medical school. You take an oath. Not the famous Hippocratic Oath specifically for doctors. They take a fashionable 2022 oath, vowing to fight white supremacy, colonialism and gender binarism.
They obviously recognize that they are acting on unceded indigenous territory. They imply that whatever has been built in Minnesota, including the university they are at, represents evil incarnate. So the colonizer must apologize for his existence and blame his ancestors.
University of Minnesota medical students swear an oath to “honor all Indigenous healing practices historically marginalized by Western medicine” and “white supremacy, colonialism, [and] binary gender.”
You will be introduced to the CRT cult. pic.twitter.com/v3YYKBq9OW
— Christopher F Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 11, 2022
But all this is not serious. It’s the fashion of the moment: a mixture of genuine desire to right past mistakes and self-flagellation to look cool. Hurricane Woke, which swept away an episode of Caleb’s Daughters, is hitting universities.
Future Doctors?
What’s really worrying is something else. These future physicians also take an oath to “honor all Indigenous healing practices historically marginalized by Western medicine.”
Here I am not sure if I understand it. Medicine is a science that developed on the basis of evidence. Studies and research have figured out what works and what doesn’t for centuries. Placebo effects have been studied, excluding beliefs, with the aim of prolonging the life of healthy people and reducing suffering.
Medicine is one of our greatest advances in civilization. Think of advances in child mortality or life expectancy.
This must be said without disregarding the methods used by all peoples at all times to heal people and alleviate suffering. The Aborigines, like other peoples, had made brilliant and welfare-relevant observations. My grandmother Georgianna, who had 16 children, also had her share of healing and palliative materials.
A science for everyone
But in 2022 medicine is a universal science. When indigenous knowledge has been overtaken by a more effective medicine, medicine must turn the tide. If a plant used by Aboriginal people is found to contain a molecule that is known to have a healing effect, this new approach must be made available to the general public.
There cannot be two medicines.
The curious thing is that when it comes to climate change, the Woke movement wants to end any debate by invoking science.
On other issues, when minority rights are asserted, they organize large crowds to minimize the importance of science.
Incidentally, the French philosopher Jean-François Braunstein has just published La religion wake. Here are future doctors who solemnly promise to put their religion above medical science.
