Past Case law demonstrates bias to find fault through confirmation bias with an individual tagged with ADHD in the past getting psychologically screened whether there is an actual problem of not. The court ruled in favor of the platiff stating that this type of psychological profiling is discriminatory. https://www.businessinsurance.com/article/00010101/NEWS06/912340253/Police-applicant%E2%80%99s-ADHD-bias-suit-reinstated "he never received a job offer because two of the three psychologists who interviewed him said he was unfit to serve, the ruling said. Mr. Gibbs alleged the psychologists were biased and reflexively rejected him because of his ADHD diagnosis"
Another case shows that a psychologist was fired after 27 years for claiming too large of a percentage of Caucasians he tested were normal. This psychologist was being strong armed to fail a larger percentage of Caucasians and pass a larger percentage of minorities solely to meet a racial quota for social equity. https://www.instagram.com/p/CWEZ0KJBUMo/?utm_medium=copy_link and https://thepostmillennial.com/washington-state-patrol-psychologist Does the FAA have this type of quota in place for their chosen psychologists?
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stephen_Dickson_(executive)&oldid=1002912228
In late December 2020, according to the WSJ, the DOL issued a ruling which, "determined that before becoming head of the Federal Aviation Administration, Steve Dickson participated in efforts by Delta Air Lines Inc. management to wrongly use a psychiatric evaluation to retaliate against a pilot who raised safety concerns." The administrative judge in this case, Scott Morris, "determined that Delta punished and discriminated against a federally protected whistleblower...". Importantly, Andy writes, "The lengthy decision by a department administrative law judge concluded that Mr. Dickson, as Delta's senior vice president of flight operations, knew about and approved punitive moves against veteran co-pilot Karlene Petitt, who was deemed unfit to fly in December 2016 after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The diagnosis eventually was reversed and she resumed flying." Equally important, it was found that, "The psychiatrist who gave the initial diagnosis, which Delta paid for, years later was forced by Illinois regulators to stop practicing medicine partly due to improprieties involving commercial-pilot screening for the carrier." As for Mr. Dickson, "The ruling calls Mr. Dickson's testimony in the case vague, evasive and 'less than credible'." Karlene Petitt has a doctorate in aviation safety and her flying status was restored about 2 years later.”
Why was that paragraph scrubbed from FAA Administrator Steve Dickson's Wikipedia entry and only viewable in the edit archives?
This was not an isolated case either where Dan Hanley stated on a interview posed on Redacted June 2, 2025, that FAA Medical was weaponized against pilots that were safety whistleblowers, and even cited Karleen's case as well as his own and regarding other airline pilots as well. https://youtu.be/Eh_CxQcP3fk?si=F3aXOkpg3FuWUvW5 and https://rumble.com/v6u7llr-dan-hanley.html
In 2004 the FAA settled a reverse discrimination case where a Caucasian FAA employee sued the FAA for refusing to promote him because "he was not the right color" https://kingstonlawgroup.com/significant-cases/michael-ryan-v-faadot-2004/ Is the FAA factoring in racial norms with the Cogscreen?
The NFL in 2021 entered into a $1 billion settlement due to race based cognitive testing where the bar was set lower for football players of color to be labeled as cognitive defective due to CTE . https://www.npr.org/2021/10/20/1047793751/nfl-concussion-settlement-race-norming-cte and https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/08/02/race-norming-nfl-concussion-settlement/ so do you have to score higher on the Cogscreen in order not to lose your medical if your are Caucasian?