University president apologizes for ‘liking’ tweets criticizing COVID vaccine, child gender surgery

The president of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia recently issued an apology and walked back his apparent affirmation of tweets expressing conservative views.

“I regret my lack of understanding of how ‘liking’ a tweet is an implied endorsement,” President Mark Tykocinski, who is also a molecular immunologist and medical doctor, told The Philadelphia Inquirer.

The president recently came under fire for having “liked” tweets over the past year expressing skepticism about the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, calling minor gender surgery “child mutilation,” and other politically incorrect views, according to The Inquirer.