The American Medical Association pursues an anti-science agenda, Yale students invade the Yale

Harvard football game, and Michael Bloomberg officially enters the race. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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slash Ben and make the magic happen. Okay, so I want to begin today with a non-impeachment-related story.

That's because, frankly, I'm tired of the impeachment stuff. I don't think it's going anywhere.

We'll get to those updates in a little bit, but the media is outsized attention to impeachment

is obscuring the fact that there's some deep systemic change going on in the United States with regard particularly to hot-button

social issues. And a lot of this is being pushed by folks who have an anti-science agenda inside

the scientific community. Today's example, it's actually coming from last week. So late last

week, the American Medical Association, according to the AMA website, gathered physician and medical student leaders from all corners

of medicine at its interim meeting to shape guiding policies on emerging health care topics.

Ooh, ah. The AMA's House of Delegates is the policymaking body at the center of American

medicine. The policies adopted by the House of Delegates today, this would have been last week, like last Wednesday, Thursday, included, quote, the AMA supports state and federal bans on conversion therapy.

Now, let me be clear.

Before I go any further, when it comes to conversion therapy, no one, no one is in favor of electrocuting kids in order to make them not gay.

No one is talking about that. No one is in favor of

electroshock therapy for kids who are suffering from gender identity disorder or gender dysphoria,

however you decide to use that term. When the AMA talks about conversion therapy, they are talking

about your ability to bring your child to a psychologist and the psychologist being able to tell

your child that your child is in fact the sex to which

he or she belongs. That's what the AMA is talking about. They want to ban that. That's what they're

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