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Credibility — and How to Lose It

September 28, 2024 • Posted in Blog

by D. Joy Riley, M.D., M.A.

Executive Director

Is the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) behaving badly? This is a cogent question. Recently (24 September 2024), the Attorneys General of twenty states, along with the President of the Arizona Senate and the Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives wrote to the AAP with multiple concerns:

Re: AAP’s Compliance with State Consumer Protection Laws 

. . . When the American Academy of Pediatrics speaks, its 67,000 pediatrician members, the broader medical community, the public, and especially parents are listening. Since its founding in 1930, it has exercised great influence on the practice ...read more