H/t Coauthors: Sandra Susan Smith and Aaron Shakow

Which fire ceased again?

If universities, professional associations, and medical organizations normalize arbitrary punishment, secret proceedings, and ideological litmus tests, they’re not just capitulating to authoritarianism. They’re teaching it, modeling it, making it feel normal.”

When they silence advocacy for health during humanitarian crises — precisely when professional expertise matters most — they render themselves irrelevant to the urgent questions of our time. More fundamentally, the spread of dual state logic into civil society accelerates democratic collapse.

Snip: “When professional associations abandon their ethical mandates in response to political pressure, they lose their legitimacy as independent voices on matters of public importance.