"There must also be skin in the game for the complainant. It should not be possible to trigger a life-altering ordeal for a professional upon whom patients depend with a few mouse clicks. Reasonable procedural safeguards could help discourage frivolous complaints while preserving access for legitimate ones – for example, a modest filing fee refundable if a complaint is deemed non-vexatious, or a more structured complaint requirement that demands a modicum of specificity and evidence at the outset. No system will be perfect – only tradeoffs – but every functioning system requires checks and balances."
This is exactly the point I keep making in the context of other campus investigations -- Title IX, Title VI, OCR, etc. There should be punishment for frivolous complaints. Right now, there are none.
This is a huge problem in the US and Europe as well. In the Geosciences, the various professional societies, AGU, EGU, GSA all concluded during the #MeToo movement that THEY were entitled to take over regulation of the profession by imposing enforceable codes of conduct that the membership was only allowed to comment on but NEVER subject to a vote. Members of the profession are now subjected to kangaroo courts where anonymous accusers can make allegations without evidence or ability for cross examination of their lack of evidence and often blatant conflicts of interest. Geoscientists can not only be kicked out of meetings and particular societies, but the other societies will automatically honor without appeal or review the decision of the first kangaroo court. I presented a peer reviewed poster at an AGU conference session on ETHICS on how such a system violates not only legal principles in the US Constitution and Magna Carta that go back all the way to the Roman Republic and Biblical Times, but also the very precepts of science which require all claims to be subject to public review and cross examination based on the EVIDENCE. This poster was deemed a violation of the Code of Conduct that it was objecting to (naturally), I was fired from my job at a DIFFERENT society(GSA) and banned from both AGU and GSA. GSA's basis for my termination continually changed but the first was the one that spoke the unspeakable truth. I was accused of revealing information harmful to the society and information only available to the society. This was NOT true as I was defending the integrity of the society and profession by my poster and all the information was available in the public record including on their own WEBSITE. (There was even more damaging information I could have presented but which I held back as it was not in the public record at that time.) I have been treated as if I were Orwell's infamous Goldberg ever since going on 7 years now. The complainants were all anonymous with 2 even admitting that they had never even seen the poster that they were complaining about. The third had a clear conflict of interest. The societies involved admitted that everything in the poster was true but it was the impact it had on "vulnerable" populations that mattered. What is truly disgusting is that the development of these Codes of Conduct was funded with massive government grants from the so-called National Science Foundation (NSF). NSF has adopted policies to strip the grants from PI's on the basis of such flimsy allegations and reassign them to others to continue the work (no incentive to file false complaints there...). Further, accusers who file their complaints in university Title IX kangaroo courts and win will have their complaints treated as valid, but those whose complaints are rejected by their universities are allowed to have the professional societies impose punishment anyway. So...even a vindication in a kangaroo court is not sufficient to be free of the false accusations. The matter gets worse when organizations like NSF actually farm out the grant review process of entire programs to these so-called professional societies to implement...making membership in that society and submission to its unconstitutional Code of Conduct a requirement for getting federal funds. One would think that organizations dedicated to free speech like FIRE would be all over the chance to challenge such nonsense, but you would be wrong. FIRE seems to think that these societies "freedom of speech and association" allows them to discriminate on the basis of speech while simultaneously acting as a de facto government regulatory agency. The truth of course is that FIRE is unwilling to take on vested academic interests like the feminist lobby. There is a solution to all of this of course, professional societies should be required to follow all constitutional laws and have NO regulatory role of any kind. Any attempt to exert such an "enforcement" role should be see for what it is...the very harassment that laws like Title IX were meant to prevent. With the professional societies, grant making system and journals they control all thus compromised, one must conclude that the entire academic and scientific enterprise no longer holds any validity and should be treated as completely unreliable as a source of information and societal policy making until such time as a thorough reform occurs.
My prior message (about doctors not treating leprosy) is closely tied to 'Good' doctors being afraid of new laws and regulations involving prescribing anti-biotics etc,
_Both_ doctors and 'regulatory agencies' (i.e. "the Government") are equally responsible for ensuring obscenely dangerous diseases (that most people have never even heard about, which most likely includes -YOU-, so please look up DIFFUSE LEPROMATOUS LEPROSY, and 'Lucio's Phenomenon" which is the 'end-stage' of diffuse lepromatous leprosy),
are spread and disseminated throughout the public and the world.
If it wasn't obvious to people already - the world is run by 'hidden' groups who have agendas and those agendas are put into place by moving pieces around in regulatory bodies -
i.e. (good) doctors are 'afraid' to "treat" patients with antibiotics because they will get 'reviewed' and they are afraid they will lose their job -
that means serious (infectious, contagious) disease like Diffuse Lepromatous Leprosy are quietly 'spread' while doctors find excuses not to treat you - they are 'afraid' of the government and do not have the spine to stand up to make sure patients are treated.
This is the fault of the doctors regardless if they get reviewed or not they should be diagnosing and treating patients - but they don't.
Second, the government does things like make Clofazimine illegal - which is a noted very important powerful medication for curing lung infections and absolutely necessary for curing leprosy,
Why would they quietly 'ban' the very antibiotic that is necessary to cure a relatively 'new' disease ( Diffuse Lepromatous Leprosy) , out of all the bazillion medications out there they just happen to ban the most important thing necessary to cure the most silent and unheard (and deadly) disease that humanity has ever known?
If you need to be told this is a setup then you are part of the problem.
Everything is an agenda and most 'truth-tellers' pointing out the evil-doings of the government are controlled opposition (when was the last time you heard about leprosy spreading? - you haven't).
If you still find this hard to believe please understand they need to move pieces in place to ensure their agendas play out - and one of their agenda's is to have a slave' class that works diligently day and night with no hope of escape.
That 'class' will be made by ensuring humans blend with robotics.
You will never be able to 'escape' the system if you are reliant on robot arms and legs.
If you are confused then you didn't look up Lucio's (Lucifer's) Phenomenon - look it up now and see what happens if you don't get treated for it.
Everything is an agenda and people need to stop being passive and figure this out, it's gotten very obvious at this point.
They are NOT treating serious things like LEPROSY anymore - they just don't want to be bothered and just want easy money doing nothing -
(In case there's confusion, they CLEARLY use the 'referral' process as a loop-hole to just constantly get money while doing nothing -
they are not 'required' to treat a patient, therefore, they just make appointments for 2-3 minutes (if possible) and shove patients out the door, if they can't quickly give you a prescription for something silly in literally a minute (of starting your appointment), and they realize you actually DO have an 'actual' health problem (that requires actual thinking and prescribing actual medication),
then they quickly get this 'omg get out of here' look on their face, and say, "Oh I'll give you a referral to someone else" - abdicating their responsibility and just collecting the cast for the appointment while doing NOTHING -
this is CONSISTENT across practically ALL doctors nowadays simply because they know they can get away with it.
Doctors are by far the worst, greediest, most selfish people on the planet and NO other person even comes close to how evil they are.
If a person 'murders' in jail he is seen as the 'worst' criminal possible - yet when doctors delay diagnosis, misdiagnose, or flat out kill / injure patients with no regard everybody just looks the other way.
Doctors need to be removed and Artificial Intelligence instituted because the doctors are just absolute scum there to make money off a mostly ignorant public who doesn't know any better.
The people who realize what they doing (although a growing group) are 'shut out' and unheard, because all the other 'watch-dog' institutions are 'buddy-buddy' with doctors and practically all friends and family of the same group of people.
Any patients reading this message you should get involved as soon as possible in removing doctors from the medical 'equation' as Diffuse Lepromatous Leprosy is at your 'door' - the world will be filled with lepers at this rate, who will be dying, losing arms and legs, and becoming disfigured,
and the doctors will still do nothing and not take responsibility - because they make enough to live in 'gated' communities and couldn't care less what happens to the public.
Excellent analysis of how regulatory bodies have morphed from gatekeepers of competence into ideological enforcers. The skin-in-the-game proposal for complainants is critical, without it the system becomes a weaponized grievance factory where anonymous activists can trigger career-destroying investigations at zero cost. I watched medical professionals get silenced during COVID for questioning lockdown efficacy, and the chilling efect was real. The fact that Peterson couldn't find a qualified "social media coach" for months is darkly hilarious but also reveals how absurd the re-education mandate was from the start.
"There must also be skin in the game for the complainant. It should not be possible to trigger a life-altering ordeal for a professional upon whom patients depend with a few mouse clicks. Reasonable procedural safeguards could help discourage frivolous complaints while preserving access for legitimate ones – for example, a modest filing fee refundable if a complaint is deemed non-vexatious, or a more structured complaint requirement that demands a modicum of specificity and evidence at the outset. No system will be perfect – only tradeoffs – but every functioning system requires checks and balances."
This is exactly the point I keep making in the context of other campus investigations -- Title IX, Title VI, OCR, etc. There should be punishment for frivolous complaints. Right now, there are none.
This is a huge problem in the US and Europe as well. In the Geosciences, the various professional societies, AGU, EGU, GSA all concluded during the #MeToo movement that THEY were entitled to take over regulation of the profession by imposing enforceable codes of conduct that the membership was only allowed to comment on but NEVER subject to a vote. Members of the profession are now subjected to kangaroo courts where anonymous accusers can make allegations without evidence or ability for cross examination of their lack of evidence and often blatant conflicts of interest. Geoscientists can not only be kicked out of meetings and particular societies, but the other societies will automatically honor without appeal or review the decision of the first kangaroo court. I presented a peer reviewed poster at an AGU conference session on ETHICS on how such a system violates not only legal principles in the US Constitution and Magna Carta that go back all the way to the Roman Republic and Biblical Times, but also the very precepts of science which require all claims to be subject to public review and cross examination based on the EVIDENCE. This poster was deemed a violation of the Code of Conduct that it was objecting to (naturally), I was fired from my job at a DIFFERENT society(GSA) and banned from both AGU and GSA. GSA's basis for my termination continually changed but the first was the one that spoke the unspeakable truth. I was accused of revealing information harmful to the society and information only available to the society. This was NOT true as I was defending the integrity of the society and profession by my poster and all the information was available in the public record including on their own WEBSITE. (There was even more damaging information I could have presented but which I held back as it was not in the public record at that time.) I have been treated as if I were Orwell's infamous Goldberg ever since going on 7 years now. The complainants were all anonymous with 2 even admitting that they had never even seen the poster that they were complaining about. The third had a clear conflict of interest. The societies involved admitted that everything in the poster was true but it was the impact it had on "vulnerable" populations that mattered. What is truly disgusting is that the development of these Codes of Conduct was funded with massive government grants from the so-called National Science Foundation (NSF). NSF has adopted policies to strip the grants from PI's on the basis of such flimsy allegations and reassign them to others to continue the work (no incentive to file false complaints there...). Further, accusers who file their complaints in university Title IX kangaroo courts and win will have their complaints treated as valid, but those whose complaints are rejected by their universities are allowed to have the professional societies impose punishment anyway. So...even a vindication in a kangaroo court is not sufficient to be free of the false accusations. The matter gets worse when organizations like NSF actually farm out the grant review process of entire programs to these so-called professional societies to implement...making membership in that society and submission to its unconstitutional Code of Conduct a requirement for getting federal funds. One would think that organizations dedicated to free speech like FIRE would be all over the chance to challenge such nonsense, but you would be wrong. FIRE seems to think that these societies "freedom of speech and association" allows them to discriminate on the basis of speech while simultaneously acting as a de facto government regulatory agency. The truth of course is that FIRE is unwilling to take on vested academic interests like the feminist lobby. There is a solution to all of this of course, professional societies should be required to follow all constitutional laws and have NO regulatory role of any kind. Any attempt to exert such an "enforcement" role should be see for what it is...the very harassment that laws like Title IX were meant to prevent. With the professional societies, grant making system and journals they control all thus compromised, one must conclude that the entire academic and scientific enterprise no longer holds any validity and should be treated as completely unreliable as a source of information and societal policy making until such time as a thorough reform occurs.
Censorship is commonplace nowadays. Right?
https://hxlibraries.substack.com/p/when-collegiality-becomes-censorship
https://brigittebouzonnie.substack.com/p/la-reversibilite-anthropologique
https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/the-institutional-suppression-of
https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/heresy
https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/neutralization-how-bureaucracies
Canada is sadly in the mire in so many ways.
Rx: courage. All else will follow.
Totally agree ~ excellent article ~ thank you
Please note,
My prior message (about doctors not treating leprosy) is closely tied to 'Good' doctors being afraid of new laws and regulations involving prescribing anti-biotics etc,
_Both_ doctors and 'regulatory agencies' (i.e. "the Government") are equally responsible for ensuring obscenely dangerous diseases (that most people have never even heard about, which most likely includes -YOU-, so please look up DIFFUSE LEPROMATOUS LEPROSY, and 'Lucio's Phenomenon" which is the 'end-stage' of diffuse lepromatous leprosy),
are spread and disseminated throughout the public and the world.
If it wasn't obvious to people already - the world is run by 'hidden' groups who have agendas and those agendas are put into place by moving pieces around in regulatory bodies -
i.e. (good) doctors are 'afraid' to "treat" patients with antibiotics because they will get 'reviewed' and they are afraid they will lose their job -
that means serious (infectious, contagious) disease like Diffuse Lepromatous Leprosy are quietly 'spread' while doctors find excuses not to treat you - they are 'afraid' of the government and do not have the spine to stand up to make sure patients are treated.
This is the fault of the doctors regardless if they get reviewed or not they should be diagnosing and treating patients - but they don't.
Second, the government does things like make Clofazimine illegal - which is a noted very important powerful medication for curing lung infections and absolutely necessary for curing leprosy,
Why would they quietly 'ban' the very antibiotic that is necessary to cure a relatively 'new' disease ( Diffuse Lepromatous Leprosy) , out of all the bazillion medications out there they just happen to ban the most important thing necessary to cure the most silent and unheard (and deadly) disease that humanity has ever known?
If you need to be told this is a setup then you are part of the problem.
Everything is an agenda and most 'truth-tellers' pointing out the evil-doings of the government are controlled opposition (when was the last time you heard about leprosy spreading? - you haven't).
If you still find this hard to believe please understand they need to move pieces in place to ensure their agendas play out - and one of their agenda's is to have a slave' class that works diligently day and night with no hope of escape.
That 'class' will be made by ensuring humans blend with robotics.
You will never be able to 'escape' the system if you are reliant on robot arms and legs.
If you are confused then you didn't look up Lucio's (Lucifer's) Phenomenon - look it up now and see what happens if you don't get treated for it.
Everything is an agenda and people need to stop being passive and figure this out, it's gotten very obvious at this point.
Doctors are out of control,
They are NOT treating serious things like LEPROSY anymore - they just don't want to be bothered and just want easy money doing nothing -
(In case there's confusion, they CLEARLY use the 'referral' process as a loop-hole to just constantly get money while doing nothing -
they are not 'required' to treat a patient, therefore, they just make appointments for 2-3 minutes (if possible) and shove patients out the door, if they can't quickly give you a prescription for something silly in literally a minute (of starting your appointment), and they realize you actually DO have an 'actual' health problem (that requires actual thinking and prescribing actual medication),
then they quickly get this 'omg get out of here' look on their face, and say, "Oh I'll give you a referral to someone else" - abdicating their responsibility and just collecting the cast for the appointment while doing NOTHING -
this is CONSISTENT across practically ALL doctors nowadays simply because they know they can get away with it.
Doctors are by far the worst, greediest, most selfish people on the planet and NO other person even comes close to how evil they are.
If a person 'murders' in jail he is seen as the 'worst' criminal possible - yet when doctors delay diagnosis, misdiagnose, or flat out kill / injure patients with no regard everybody just looks the other way.
Doctors need to be removed and Artificial Intelligence instituted because the doctors are just absolute scum there to make money off a mostly ignorant public who doesn't know any better.
The people who realize what they doing (although a growing group) are 'shut out' and unheard, because all the other 'watch-dog' institutions are 'buddy-buddy' with doctors and practically all friends and family of the same group of people.
Any patients reading this message you should get involved as soon as possible in removing doctors from the medical 'equation' as Diffuse Lepromatous Leprosy is at your 'door' - the world will be filled with lepers at this rate, who will be dying, losing arms and legs, and becoming disfigured,
and the doctors will still do nothing and not take responsibility - because they make enough to live in 'gated' communities and couldn't care less what happens to the public.
You have been Warned
Excellent analysis of how regulatory bodies have morphed from gatekeepers of competence into ideological enforcers. The skin-in-the-game proposal for complainants is critical, without it the system becomes a weaponized grievance factory where anonymous activists can trigger career-destroying investigations at zero cost. I watched medical professionals get silenced during COVID for questioning lockdown efficacy, and the chilling efect was real. The fact that Peterson couldn't find a qualified "social media coach" for months is darkly hilarious but also reveals how absurd the re-education mandate was from the start.