When it was revealed that doctors from the University of Wisconsin, were going to teacher protests and offering to write up notes for the protesters, the initial response of the left was to claim it was a right-wing lie. In time, everyone began to realize these events were real, driven by the fact that teachers could not take the time off to protest or go on strike by contract unless they were given a physician’s note explaining medical reasons for their absence.

It appears that the University is going to investigate these doctors, but since they are all faculty and leadership at the university it isn’t clear that anything will come of the efforts. As Ford Vox writes at the Atlantic in a piece otherwise breathlessly supportive of the unions: