Full Comment - October 21, 2024


The underqualified, anti-racist activist doctor will see you now


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30 minutes

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164.7927

Word Count

4,988

Sentence Count

293

Misogynist Sentences

6

Hate Speech Sentences

14


Summary

Dr. Mark D'Souza is a family physician in Toronto and an assistant professor at Queen's University Medical School. In this episode, he talks about the proposed changes to the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, a group of activists who want to change the way that doctors are trained in Canada.


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00:01:07.780 When you go to see a doctor, are you looking for someone who is a medical expert or someone who is
00:01:14.800 an anti-oppression and anti-racism advocate? Hello and welcome to the Full Comment Podcast. My name's
00:01:20.880 Brian Lilly. Today we're going to look at changes that are being proposed to CanMeds, an offshoot of
00:01:25.960 the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. There are calls to change the way that doctors
00:01:31.840 are trained in this country. Quoting from a document that was published last December when I first wrote
00:01:36.760 about this, it says that a new model of CanMeds would seek to center values such as anti-oppression,
00:01:43.460 anti-racism, and social justice rather than medical expertise, end quote. I don't know about you,
00:01:49.800 but that's very concerning to me. It's also concerning to a number of doctors who are pushing
00:01:54.320 back, including our guest today. Dr. Mark D'Souza is a family physician in Toronto. He also has an
00:02:00.460 affiliation with Queen's University Medical School, where he is an assistant professor, and he joins me
00:02:04.380 now from his practice. Dr. D'Souza, thanks so much. Good morning, Brian. It's great to be here.
00:02:10.260 So, this woke takeover of medicine, as a recent piece in National Post described it, how did this
00:02:18.300 come about, and is this something that we should be concerned about? Because when I wrote about this
00:02:22.680 last December and quoted from the CanMeds proposal, the Royal College replied that it was fake news,
00:02:30.340 that it was misinformation out there, that they wanted to replace medical expertise with anti-oppression
00:02:37.660 and anti-racism. And yet, as you just heard, I quoted from them. So, you're part of this
00:02:43.060 organization. You're a practicing doctor. What's going on, and why are you concerned?
00:02:48.700 So, first, just a brief overview of what the CanMeds framework is. This is the ideals of what it
00:02:56.500 means to be a Canadian physician. And this has been around since 1996, surviving or changing very
00:03:02.440 slightly over two iterations. And the CanMeds framework consists of seven words, such as
00:03:09.200 communicator, leader, medical expert, traditionally most of all, and scholar. And then each of these
00:03:16.160 words is actually followed by one to two paragraphs of an explanation. So, what's happened is, now that
00:03:22.540 they're up for renewal every 10 years, so it was scheduled for 2025, a group of activist doctors who run
00:03:28.840 the academic institutions, such as the Royal College, they want to radically transform it into,
00:03:34.740 and they basically said the quiet part out loud, which is they want to, as you quoted, this is
00:03:39.780 quoting directly from them, to de-center medical expertise. And, you know, if you read the rest of
00:03:45.680 the supporting documents, it basically inserts all the social justice jargon in it. And those one to two
00:03:51.140 paragraphs that follow each of these seven ideals, they've all been replaced with the words that you
00:03:56.760 were talking about, including critical race theory, anti-oppression, decolonization, and
00:04:02.720 acknowledging, of course, they have to do this, white supremacy.
00:04:07.280 What does medicine have to do with any of that? Is medicine now racist? Is medicine now
00:04:16.240 white supremacist? I mean, I've seen academics use this and claim that math is rooted in white
00:04:22.460 supremacy. Utter nonsense and ridiculous, but this has spread everywhere. I mean, how did they arrive
00:04:30.440 at that?
00:04:32.880 Well, it looks like it's copy-pasted over from all the different other woke takeovers of different
00:04:38.060 institutions. So, yeah, I don't think it has any place in medicine, but I think they just have,
00:04:45.420 it's, it's a spirit of wokeness, the spirit of ideological capture by the left of different
00:04:49.800 institutions that just, everything is, everything is racist and it displaces the actual medical
00:04:56.060 practice. So, yes, one thing specific, they, they do explicitly say we have to acknowledge
00:05:00.280 that Western medicine is founded on racism. All of us acknowledge that.
00:05:05.100 Western medicine has drawn from advances from around the world. It's as ridiculous as saying
00:05:23.980 math is centered in Western colonialism and white supremacy. I mean, you look at how math was
00:05:31.100 developed, much like medicine. Oh, you know, the Arabic scholars came up with this. Oh, scholars in
00:05:39.320 India came up with inventing the zero. You, you incorporate that and you build on it. And medicine
00:05:46.240 has done the same thing, claiming that it's, it's centered in, in Western white supremacy is beyond
00:05:52.640 ridiculous. But I worry about what this means for medical training. Is that part of your concern?
00:05:59.360 Absolutely. It's not just the ideals for medical trainees, because everyone will be indoctrinated
00:06:05.180 in this, this, the progressive agenda, but it's also the ideals of what it means to practice medicine
00:06:11.160 in Canada. So we'll have to also bend the knee, so to speak to this ideology.
00:06:17.800 Now, do you need to be a member of the Royal College to practice? So, you know, future doctors,
00:06:24.800 as you say, will go through this. You say, you'll, you'll have to bend the knee. I was talking with
00:06:30.560 one physician who is quite outraged by this. He's not, he told me, he said, I'm, I'm not involved.
00:06:36.660 I'm the only one. Yeah. Not involved with the fight, but
00:06:40.120 the outrage by this and said, if they force this, I will just surrender my membership in the Royal
00:06:49.140 College. Do you need to be a member of the Royal College to practice? I actually think you need to
00:06:54.680 be a member of one of two organizations. So if you were a GP trained like myself, you have to be a
00:07:00.360 member of the College of Family Physicians. If you are a specialist trained, like the doctor you were
00:07:06.660 referring to, you have to be a member of the Royal College. Now they're all working together on this.
00:07:11.380 It's just the Royal College happens to be the body taking the lead on this.
00:07:16.480 One of the, uh, the doctors that is, uh, pushing this is, uh, a guy named, uh, Raghu, uh, Venigopal.
00:07:25.160 Um, he's interacted with me frequently on X. Uh, he is clearly a social justice warrior. He's been
00:07:33.400 freaking out over Ontario premier Doug Ford, expanding the sale of alcohol, predicting that tens of thousands
00:07:38.940 of people are going to die as a result of this. Yet he, um, he absolutely supports safe supply and
00:07:47.060 safe injection sites, which we know the safe supply is leading to increased deaths. And at the same time,
00:07:53.100 just three weeks ago was encourage everyone to mask up in public over COVID. I look at his public
00:08:01.800 pronouncements and I don't see a doctor. I see an activist who happens to be a doctor and is putting
00:08:07.960 his political views ahead of sane, rational discussion. I mean, we can have a discussion
00:08:14.500 about the impact of, well, expanding alcohol sales and will there be harms and, and harms versus
00:08:20.360 benefits and all of that. But on every issue, it seems like he just adopts whatever the far left has.
00:08:26.400 He's one of the guys pushing this change.
00:08:29.700 There's a group of them at the top of the chain. They're all, they're all patting themselves on the
00:08:33.620 back and saying that this is the way, uh, congratulations. And this is, this is the
00:08:39.520 way of the future and everyone else who doesn't agree. I mean, I've seen some of his posts and
00:08:44.060 they don't tend to be all that, uh, well, they're not, not all that polite to, especially to
00:08:49.600 professor Revers who wrote that op-ed last week, exposing, they're good at debate.
00:08:54.960 Uh, so how do you fight back? You know, if most, you know, a few doctors that I've spoken to,
00:09:06.660 including yourself have said that they don't believe that the majority of doctors support this.
00:09:12.280 And yet clearly the activists have taken control of the institution. So how do you stop this from
00:09:20.960 happening? Uh, before I answer that question, I want to share some other news that may make us
00:09:27.000 feel better, but may also make us feel worse. This is actually part of a wider trend in Western
00:09:31.360 medicine of, uh, progressive agenda taking over. So the American Medical Association, for example,
00:09:37.060 they've also, they also say the same things formally. They want to embed anti-racism, racial equity,
00:09:42.780 social justice into their organizations. And then in Europe, it's a similar thing going on.
00:09:48.220 But how do you fight back? I actually think, uh, public awareness, first of all, is public
00:09:54.220 pressure, public awareness is, is having its effect. The college did email me two days ago
00:10:01.420 to say, to give me some updates that A, that they're actually implementing in 2027 and B, that
00:10:07.640 they are going to, uh, release some updates on the framework sometime later this month, see
00:10:14.700 what they do and what they, how much they walk back. But the other way to fight this is really,
00:10:20.200 I think we should be pushing for regulatory bodies over, uh, for legislation against regulatory body
00:10:26.980 overreach. And I know you've done some work on, uh, reporting on Jordan Peterson's case, but that's
00:10:31.220 definitely on a lot of our minds. And it's probably the reason why this has gotten to this point without
00:10:36.300 too much of, uh, public awareness. Cause we're just afraid to speak up.
00:10:41.000 In Jordan Peterson's case, uh, which I, uh, was reporting on around the same time as I started
00:10:47.540 reporting on CanMeds. Um, and well, actually, I guess it was the year previous, crazy things, uh,
00:10:54.020 come up at the end of December in the news cycle. And, and this is one of them. But in,
00:10:58.440 when I was first reporting on what was happening to Jordan Peterson, I heard from teachers, lawyers,
00:11:06.340 doctors, engineers, all kinds of people who are required as part of their job to belong to these
00:11:12.980 professional associations. And they said, I'm worried about this too. Now, if this goes forward,
00:11:19.460 I'm in, in terms of medicine, I'm worried about what it means for the future of teaching. And we have
00:11:27.240 seen several medical schools already implement, uh, you know, fast tracks for certain racialized or
00:11:34.780 minority groups. I hate that term racialized. The term racialized to me actually sounds like it's
00:11:40.460 white supremacist because it makes it sound like being white is the norm and everyone else is
00:11:45.880 racialized. Therefore not the norm. I don't use the term. It's the woke left that uses it. And to me,
00:11:52.800 that sounds white supremacist, but anyways, so using their term, there are fast tracks and,
00:11:58.760 and special, uh, uh, admissions, uh, formats for racialized groups within medical schools.
00:12:05.620 Now we've got this, but I, I think that what you have to be worried about next is what's happened
00:12:12.020 to Dr. Peterson. That if you have the wrong thought, you will be punished by your regulatory body.
00:12:19.680 Absolutely. We need to protect the ability of physicians and every other regulated professional
00:12:25.560 to be able to speak. That's how we defeat this. And, and I did want to comment as well on your,
00:12:30.700 the admissions criteria, because I think I see that coming as well. And in fact,
00:12:35.180 they even explicitly call for it in the supporting documents for this CanMeds 2025 framework of getting
00:12:41.040 social justice, equity, diversity, inclusivity, the new holy trinity into the, uh, admissions.
00:12:47.360 If you look at specifically, I'll, I'll highlight Dalhousie, but I can see this as part of a wider
00:12:52.460 trend with medical school admissions. Dalhousie does not have a minimum stand, minimum GPA or MCAT
00:12:58.520 requirements for two particular preferred racial groups. They, I think the medical schools need to
00:13:05.140 be pressed onto how are they going to make sure that this just doesn't end up being racial quotas?
00:13:09.800 You know, I have been treated by doctors of all backgrounds. Um, you know, my family physician
00:13:18.200 for the longest time, uh, when I lived in Hamilton was from India. Um, his son who, you know, in,
00:13:24.900 he was an Indian immigrant, his son who was born here, raised here. I believe he's taking over the
00:13:29.180 practice. Now my, my, uh, family members still go to that GP. Uh, I've had Arabic Muslim doctors,
00:13:35.800 Jewish doctors, you know, I just want a good doctor. Uh, it's, this is a, a bizarre way of
00:13:44.320 handling it. One of the top obstetricians in Ottawa. Uh, and I believe that, that the, the
00:13:50.020 groups, uh, one of the groups, uh, getting favorable access are, are black students. Uh, this would
00:13:56.440 offend, uh, that one of the top obstetricians that, uh, delivered my kids, uh, when I was in
00:14:01.980 Ottawa, uh, Dr. Nimrod would have been furious with this. He was very accomplished man. Uh,
00:14:07.540 you, you don't get the best doctors through this format.
00:14:13.660 The, this movement is also very anti-meritocratic and they're explicit about it. So no, you don't
00:14:18.160 get the best doctors. And what do Canadians want? The people who are most capable of being
00:14:22.360 the best doctors for them.
00:14:23.360 Uh, so medical schools are going down this route. Dalhousie's, uh, gone this route already. I believe
00:14:29.960 university of Alberta, uh, U of T I'm guessing can't be far behind. Uh,
00:14:36.720 Queens, my own school is, uh, they, they were excited to announce a few months ago, um, these
00:14:42.200 exciting changes. And I think they tripped over themselves many times trying to say the word
00:14:46.240 diversity in their announcement as many times as possible. So.
00:14:49.180 What was your medical school like when, when you went, uh, I mean, it's, uh, trying to find a
00:14:59.240 family doctor here in Toronto. It, you are getting doctors from all over the world. And I, I, I probably
00:15:06.540 see fewer white doctors than, than ever before. You know, isn't it, uh, uh, a huge melting pot or
00:15:13.560 mosaic in medical schools in this country already?
00:15:16.500 Absolutely. I was, I was a Queens graduate of 2009 class, uh, school of medicine, and it was a
00:15:23.200 melting pot of everyone, every ethnicity, uh, about 50, 50 men and women. It's about as even as
00:15:28.820 you can get, but we weren't divided like it is now. And all they do is they sow division between
00:15:33.660 people. I actually grew up in Toronto. I was born and raised here and race was never really talked
00:15:38.860 about. And now it seems to be the only thing we talk about.
00:15:41.920 What I remember was, and I I've used this example before I was taught what Martin Luther King
00:15:49.260 professed judge people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. And
00:15:55.820 that may have been what I was taught in, in school in the eighties, but I would say that Malcolm X is
00:16:02.720 won the day and not Martin Luther King. Uh, we know we, we now judge people based on their race,
00:16:10.060 based on their ethnicity. And, and, and the, the, the people that say they're anti-racist
00:16:15.840 demand that that is how we judge people.
00:16:20.060 They're masters of language. They've actually been quite successful in changing the definition
00:16:24.040 of racism. And now it's, it's, yeah, it's, it's gone the other way, uh, within practice,
00:16:31.700 is this talked about, or is it just the small group of activists, uh, with your fellow doctors?
00:16:38.780 I think it is talked about in, see, I practice it in the community. So I think within the academic
00:16:44.180 echo chambers, it is talked about quietly in the community, my colleagues and I, we do talk about
00:16:50.100 it for sure, but we, we can't really say it aloud. We can't broadcast say on X. There's only one
00:16:55.400 political ideology that you can broadcast loudly as you know, it's, it's what, whatever they're
00:16:59.880 saying, there are no consequences for that. But yeah, it's hard to know exactly how many people
00:17:05.640 would, uh, would be against their position, but I do have a sense that it is 90 plus percent of
00:17:10.660 physicians. We just, we can't say it. Uh, have you been called a white supremacist yet for opposing this?
00:17:16.240 Not yet. Uh, because people are listening to us and, and not watching us, uh, I'll just point out
00:17:24.380 that I don't think you're white. I might be the brown face of white supremacy. It might be a
00:17:30.940 moniker I'll get soon. Yeah. Um, you know, so, but I'm amazed they haven't called you that yet. Uh,
00:17:38.800 but I'm, I'm sure it's coming shortly. Yeah. I mean, I'm not the only one speaking out. I just,
00:17:44.000 I think I'm the most recent about this and I don't think I'll be the last one until there's a
00:17:47.980 elimination of politics from medicine. All right. Well, we need to take a quick break,
00:17:53.220 but when we come back, uh, we'll chat a bit about your book, uh, because you do have a new book out
00:17:58.100 and it is called, let me just scroll back up, uh, lost and found how meaningless living is destroying
00:18:03.700 us in three keys to fix it more in moments. The push to change how we view medicine, how we view
00:18:10.600 reality, quite frankly, isn't just happening in Canada. We've been talking about can meds with
00:18:15.920 Dr. Mark D'Souza, but Dr. D'Souza, the, uh, this issue is global. You've pointed to a UCLA medical
00:18:25.260 school. Uh, tell me about the segregated classes. I thought we were against segregation and education,
00:18:31.820 but apparently it's back in vogue at UCLA's medical school.
00:18:35.960 What's old is new again, Brian. And it seems like, uh, the, the, one of the medical schools
00:18:42.700 affiliated with the university of UCLA, they are trying segregated classes for some sessions.
00:18:49.680 They wrote this up in the new England journal of medicine a few years ago, and they seem
00:18:53.060 very proud of it as if, and, and so I use this example as an example of, you know, people may ask
00:18:58.360 me, why are you worried? It won't go that far in Canada. So I can imagine all these disaster
00:19:03.360 possibilities in Canada, but I can just stick to, for the audience, things that are happening
00:19:09.380 quite close to us. And if we keep going down this route, why wouldn't we end up with segregated
00:19:14.840 classes like UCLA? Cause it's all part of the same movement.
00:19:19.340 The, uh, the issue of gender, uh, it's not in can meds, but you are seeing it show up elsewhere.
00:19:25.940 And you were telling me that European cardiologists have removed gender from how they treat things.
00:19:34.360 Explain that because, you know, my understanding of the human body is still that men and women
00:19:38.960 are different.
00:19:41.920 This is the tide that we've been seeing and many doctors have been very worried about the
00:19:46.740 future of medicine, the actual delivery of medical care, because we could see where this
00:19:50.780 was going. And now finally you see some very objective change. The European society of cardiology
00:19:56.820 just removed the women as a risk factor for stroke. So that will have direct implications
00:20:01.960 in how we treat women or, uh, for strokes because of, uh, and they actually say that this will,
00:20:08.860 the inclusion of gender in the criteria will complicate medical practice.
00:20:13.640 So why are they removing it?
00:20:16.520 Because it gets confusing with transgender, non-binary, but in reality, yeah, women would
00:20:23.720 being a woman is a risk factor. So they will be under treated.
00:20:27.240 So, but you know, my understanding is that stroke things like strokes and heart attacks,
00:20:34.600 the symptoms and how things can be proactively dealt with or treated that, that there are differences
00:20:43.420 between men and women, uh, or am I incorrect in my thinking?
00:20:49.240 The whole array of pathology in humans has very, uh, we were trained in medical school and we learned
00:20:55.600 throughout that we, what, what, what is the age, what is the patient, what is the sex of the patient?
00:21:00.300 And that really does play into your diagnostic capabilities. This is more likely, or that is
00:21:06.480 more likely. We're going to start to miss things as gender gets really confusing and deleted from,
00:21:11.060 and women are erased from the language.
00:21:14.980 I was, you know, it's amazing that this is happening at the same time as we're, uh, getting
00:21:20.460 breakthroughs because I was reading a, an article maybe two, three months ago about how doctors have,
00:21:28.920 uh, determined some new differences in, in how to spot heart attacks and risk factors for women,
00:21:37.140 because men have been, you know, more men have heart attacks than women. They have been women,
00:21:43.560 uh, and how it shows with women that that's been overlooked and understudied. And, and so we've got
00:21:51.220 new information about, Hey, this is how heart attacks show up in women. This is how to, to spot the
00:21:58.820 signs. This is how to treat them. And now you've got these activists trying to brush all that aside
00:22:03.280 in the name of their ideology. People, I mean, I mean, uh, Dr. Venipal thinks that, uh, beer in
00:22:10.440 corner stores will kill people. This will kill people. It's quite a distraction from the changes
00:22:16.500 to medicines when you're just through activism. So yeah, this will kill people. Heart attacks
00:22:21.460 specifically in women are harder to pick up and now it's going to be even harder if you can't say
00:22:25.020 the word woman. Uh, Oh, look, I think most sensible doctors will, but if, if this is not stopped,
00:22:32.400 you know, this will show up in can meds and then this is how doctors will be treated.
00:22:38.040 And, uh, speaking with Dr. Gad Sada a little while ago about how bad ideas that start in the
00:22:45.260 sociology department in universities and get ignored, don't stay there. It's not like Vegas. They don't
00:22:50.380 stay there. This will keep spreading. And while you're fighting back against that, maybe the next
00:22:55.300 generation of doctors will say, Oh no, absolutely. We, we can't, we can't, you know, uh, determine
00:23:02.040 anything by someone's gender and we shouldn't consider gender in treating people. Uh, you know,
00:23:07.940 prostate cancer shows up the same in everyone. It doesn't have to be in Canada to get up in the
00:23:14.040 curriculum. So you think medical schools will just, uh, adopt these things over the coming years?
00:23:23.200 It's hard to say. I do worry. That's the case. Orwell did warn about how language shapes thoughts.
00:23:29.400 And you can see, even as, as a, uh, this American medical association has this document on how to
00:23:34.620 say it's pregnant persons now, or they encourage us to say assigned sex assigned at birth. They're
00:23:40.720 really pushing hard on the language. They all do in the woke mind virus. And yeah, I can't see how
00:23:46.480 that doesn't affect medical training. Yeah. I remember a little while ago, um, Marcy Ian,
00:23:54.080 the liberal MP and cabinet minister, who's in charge of, uh, women's equity. She is using this
00:24:00.360 non-gendered language. She was talking about women and referring to them as menstruators. And I can't
00:24:07.120 think of, uh, uh, a word that women would want to use to describe themselves any less than menstruators.
00:24:15.140 Uh, menstruation is a fact of life, but I've never met a single woman that enjoys it and, or would want
00:24:20.720 to be identified as you're no longer a woman, you're a menstruator. It is, uh, I actually find the, the push
00:24:29.380 on changing gender in the language is aimed more at women than men. And I've described it as an attempt
00:24:36.880 to erase women and femininity from our language. It's not happening to men and, and, and men need
00:24:44.440 to speak up, I think, but women also need to stand up and say, hell no, I am a woman. You will not refer
00:24:50.500 to me as a, a person who is pregnant, a person who menstruates. Yeah. So what have we, what have we
00:24:58.140 said has come back in vogue. So racism has come back in vogue, sexism against women, segregation.
00:25:03.620 Is this where we're headed? I, I, I think it is. Um, and, and, and that does worry me. Uh, let's talk
00:25:11.860 a bit, uh, about your book lost and found how meaning this living is destroying us in three keys
00:25:17.500 to, to fix it. What do you mean by meaningless living? Well, I actually, I wrote this to, I really
00:25:25.080 started writing to try to answer the question for myself, why we're so divided and increasingly
00:25:30.840 divided and people seem, despite how materially prosperous our society is, how empty we are
00:25:36.660 on the inside. And then at the deeper question I was asking myself at the time was, why do people
00:25:42.940 take opioids? Because I was practicing addiction medicine at that time as well. Why do you, why
00:25:47.140 do people throw young people with promising futures, throw their lives away or opioids? And
00:25:52.900 at the deepest answer I found simplistically is just to say that they really lack meaning and
00:25:56.840 purpose. So they're looking for something to fill the void. Man does not live on bread
00:26:03.840 alone. Uh, so I mean, without giving away everything, you want people to read the book. How, how do
00:26:13.240 we fix it? But I think in hindsight, this is, was my stab at a cure for the, the woke my virus.
00:26:20.060 And there's, there are three things that I organically discovered. And I think even just
00:26:24.140 one might bring us men to societal rift and bring us back together and hopefully even give
00:26:29.560 people purpose enough to stop taking opioids. So one is freedom of speech, especially for
00:26:35.520 those who you don't agree with. And you and I covered on this podcast, the importance of
00:26:40.260 especially having freedom of speech protected for good professionals. But I think if you had
00:26:44.980 freedom of speech, the whole, this, all these arguments for, uh, for women being, uh, taken
00:26:53.460 removed from, as a risk factor for, for stroke or all the, all the woke arguments disappear.
00:26:58.980 And then you sprinkle in the other two solutions. So traditional values, at least I argue for traditional
00:27:04.820 religion and then some personal responsibility. None of those things are in the progressive agenda.
00:27:10.020 The, the idea that, um, uh, there is higher purpose out there is universal, uh, regardless
00:27:18.500 of your faith or, or lack of it, even atheists I know will say, um, that there is a higher purpose
00:27:26.860 or a calling. That's part of what you talk about in the book. I'm, you know, you can have
00:27:34.440 your own faith, you can have something else, but you need a, a, a purpose. And I think a lot
00:27:39.340 of people have, have lost that in, in, in the way that we've organized society now.
00:27:44.980 Right. And fall for these, what I call replacement religions or just any faulty belief systems. So
00:27:50.120 the middle part of the book is walking people through the most popular replaced religions
00:27:54.980 or faulty belief systems. I actually have the, uh, the whole episode that you documented quite
00:28:00.260 well on the math is racist is in there because I thought it was a great example, how languages
00:28:05.520 used to distort, distort, uh, thought. And I also walked people through, uh, the climate
00:28:11.980 alarmism as a replacement religion. I used one of your colleagues, um, Lori Goldstein's excellent
00:28:17.520 reporting on the, on emissions targets, failed candidate Canadian emissions target, which
00:28:23.220 was really helpful. Uh, it's, uh, Lori has done amazing work on that. And, uh, there's no doubt
00:28:30.200 that climate alarmism has become a religion and, you know, it, it is, you see the people
00:28:37.700 that will glue themselves to, uh, a road or, uh, an artistic masterpiece. They're so devoted
00:28:47.560 to that. They have, uh, replaced any other faith with their, this new belief system. And
00:28:53.740 it leads to any belief system can lead to extremism, but there are some extreme, uh, to use Pierre
00:29:00.360 Pauliev's word, uh, of late wackos, uh, within that movement. Yeah. I even have a chapter doing
00:29:08.040 the cowdog diversity, equity, inclusivity, which, which is part of this canvans in the woke
00:29:12.760 movement. That, that is what it is all about. Uh, the book is out, uh, just over, uh, a couple
00:29:19.580 of weeks now it is called lost and found how meaningless living is destroying us in three
00:29:24.240 keys to fix it by Mark D'Souza. Uh, Mark, thanks so much for the time today. And thanks
00:29:29.560 for, uh, the book. Uh, I have not read it yet, but trust me, I will. And keep us updated
00:29:34.880 on your fight against, uh, the, the insanity within the medical school. I know that you're
00:29:41.000 not alone. Definitely. Thank you so much for having me, Brian.
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