The politicization of much of the public health establishment and in particular the American Public Health Association (APHA) has been pretty well understood for a while, but in case anyone should happen to doubt it, Ira Stoll catches their newsletter describing as a "debacle" the election of Republican Senator Scott Brown in Massachusetts (first link fixed now).

P.S. And from our Manhattan Institute sister site Minding the Campus, Anthony Paletta on the foreign policy of the anthropology profession and other tendentiousness from the academic associations.