When the government and elite institutions obfuscate or hide information from the public, who is there to retrieve that information, analyze it, and inform citizens about what it means?
Tarren Bragdon, CEO and Founder of the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA), spoke with two fellow leaders who are piling up wins in bringing transparency and accountability to institutions that have abandoned their mandates.
Adam Andrzejewski thanked the Bradley Impact Fund donor community for making possible a record year for government transparency. His organization, Open the Books, filed 55,000 Freedom of Information Act requests (the most in one year by any single organization in American history), while publishing 700 investigations and receiving 16,000 media citations.
Among the narrative-shifting findings of the last two years was the fact that Anthony Fauci was the highest-paid government employee in the nation, which seemed odd for a director of a subagency of Health and Human Services. After publishing this fact in an article, Mr. Andrzejewski found himself fired from Forbes magazine and his profile removed from Wikipedia. “I’m not a Forbes columnist, but I’m actually leading a transparency revolution. And so, in the end, it was actually a positive experience.”
For his part, Dr. Stanley Goldfarb described how, in just a year and a half, Do No Harm (DNH) has gained 6,000 members fighting against wokeness in the medical community. Together, this growing community is pulling back the curtain on the abuses of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs in medical schools and the harm done to children by doctors who’ve adopted “gender-affirming care” standards.
Dr. Goldfarb shared several alarming examples of race-based preferences in medical care, in scholarships at elite medical schools, and how afraid people are of where the medical profession is headed. In response, Do No Harm has turned more than 700 submissions to its anonymous tipline into 140+ complaint filings with the Office for Civil Rights under the US Department of Education. Several schools have quietly abandoned racial preferences under DNH’s scrutiny, but much more must be done.
We’ve been suing schools. We’ve (written more than 600) letters to the Office of Civil Rights and the Department of Education. And this has led to real change. But I think it requires the medical community to finally rise up. And we’ve given a voice to it.