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Anthony Daniels (known to readers as\\xa0Theodore Dalrymple) joins\\xa0Brian Anderson\\xa0to discuss Daniels\\u2019s quarter-century of writing for\\xa0City Journal\\xa0and his new book,\\xa0False Positive: A Year of Error, Omission, and Political Correctness in The New England Journal of Medicine.

\\u201cTheodore Dalrymple\\u201d first appeared in the pages of\\xa0City Journal\\xa0in 1994 with an aptly titled essay,\\u201cThe Knife Went In,\\u201d\\xa0which recounted conversations he had had with violent felons during his time as a physician in a British inner-city hospital and prison. Since then, Daniels has written nearly 500 articles for\\xa0City Journal. Selections of his essays have been compiled in the books\\xa0Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass\\xa0(2001) and\\xa0Our Culture, What\\u2019s Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses\\xa0(2005).

Daniels\\u2019s latest book,\\xa0False Positive, brings a critical eye to one of the most important general medical journals in the world:\\xa0The New England Journal of Medicine. Daniels exposes errors of reasoning and omissions apparently undetected by the\\xa0Journal\\u2019s editors and shows how its pages have become mind-numbingly politically correct, with highly debatable arguments allowed to pass as if self-evidently true.