NewsForce(@Newsforce):🇺🇸Harvard Medical School hosted a panel on “the Pathology of Unruly Bodies” where non-medical speakers, including Roxane Gay and Da’Shaun L. Harrison, argued that GLP-1 weight-loss drugs support empire and militarism by shaping ideal bodies. Harrison claimed the drugs help create “militarisable” bodies to defend an imperialist state and linked them to broader atrocities. The event drew criticism for lacking medical experts and promoting extreme ideological claims to medical students.

2026.10.23 16:36

🇺🇸Harvard Medical School hosted a panel on “the Pathology of Unruly Bodies” where non-medical speakers, including Roxane Gay and Da’Shaun L. Harrison, argued that GLP-1 weight-loss drugs support empire and militarism by shaping ideal bodies. Harrison claimed the drugs help create “militarisable” bodies to defend an imperialist state and linked them to broader atrocities. The event drew criticism for lacking medical experts and promoting extreme ideological claims to medical students.