The American Academy of Pediatrics is e prime example of a broader phenomenon: “expert” organizations’ tendency to hew the Party Line superseding their commitment to promoting the cause to which they are nominally committed.
Not long ago, I wrote about the American Heart Association coming out strongly in favor of using SNAP benefits to pay for cookies, chips, and sodas. In that case the AHA was hewing to the Party line of its funders, while in the case of the AAP the motivation is partially based on financial concerns and partially political.
I have written about the corruption of the AAP a number of times. During COVID the organization went all in on masks, and totally reversed course on the question of in-school learning one they got the word from on high that kids were going to be kicked out of schools. Pediatricians explicitly chose to back the…
