It’s a head-scratcher, folks. Saturday’s PBS News Weekend took an oddball research endeavor from the American Cancer Society and ran with it. According to their report, being LGBTQ could increase your chance of getting cancer due to bias and stigma. This strange slice of so-called science shows how PBS, funded by taxpayers like you and me, is bending over backward to satisfy the fixations of left-wingers.
John Yang, the anchor of this show, was all in as he opened the program. He sublimely suggested a connection between discrimination towards the LGBTQ community and their rates of certain cancer types—everything from colorectal to prostate. He jumped on the study’s findings of risk factors, under-screening, and inadequate healthcare facilities as proof of systemic bias denying LGBTQ folks good health care opportunities.
American Cancer Society’s Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. William Dahut, mustered an artful wokeness throughout the discussion. Besides his use of inclusive scientific jargon, Dr Dahut echoed the study’s claims. He laid out how vaccine rates equaled those of other communities, yet female-to-male transgenders received fewer screenings for certain cancers. It’s a varied situation, he summed up.
Yang couldn’t resist the urge to pin these health risks directly on being LGBTQ. Dahut disagreed—everyone faces these risks. Yang refused to drop it, linking biased medical care to deficient preventive screening among LGBTQ cancer patients. Project much, Mr. Yang?
PBS infused similar discussions targeting African Americans with the same idea. Chronic stress due to systemic racism was their cause for unequal health outcomes.
The close of this, puzzle of a segment signaled sponsorship by Cunard, and we were left with transcripts of the interview for further scrutiny.
As we look at it, dear readers, this is just another glaring example of publicly-funded media pushing a specific narrative instead of providing unbiased news. Let cancer professionals target the real threats – smoking, obesity, etc. – and leave unproven bias theories aside. Let’s focus on facts, not fantasy, when discussing serious issues such as cancer and its impact on American lives.
