that showed black 
infants had a lower mortality rate when treated by black 
doctors
I especially like this thread 
where 
they discuss the most diverse Supreme 
Court 
justice 
ever
The original study
didn't control
for birth
weight? That is literally
the strongest predictor of neonatal mortality. Incredible
that they got published.
And it got extremely widespread circulation and citation, including by a Supreme
justice. Because as shitty
as the original study
was, it supported the hot narrative at the time.
β¦ lol and you don't want to even know what the Justice
misrepresented the already wrong
finding as.
What did she say?
That for black
babies, having a black
doctor
doubles the likelihood of them living.
Holy shit. Scary
that someone with that low of an understanding of how statistics
work is in such a high position
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I mean, it is a useless study if you aren't controlling for the child's baseline health. If more black children die under the care of white doctors, but white doctors are more likely to provide high risk and NICU careβ¦bye bye narrative
It bothers me because it's made black women more anxious about receiving standard pre-natal care and hospital births, and look more towards birthing centers and midwifery, which can be semi-okay options for SOME pregnancies, but certainly not all. Plus the general sewing of distrust between patient and OB, and general increase in anxiety that's bad for pregnancy.
Makes me unironically really sad that women and babies can end up put at risk because someone wanted to make waves publishing stats they knew were flawed.
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Well I'm sure that the people running all our institutions have taken notice and implemented systems that will prevent such fraudulent studies informing policy and decision making in the future
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I just finished a podcast on the California COVID vaccine rollout and it was pretty bleak for the state of decision makers in America. Only 25% of shots were actually given due to the complication and time wasted creating the system of who gets priority. It seemed like the only concern about who got it was identity and voting blocks. A group of volunteers had to create a system to track where vaccines were, and the governor threatened to prosecute health workers that gave expiring shots to people who weren't considered priority. I don't know why people aren't calling for jailing incompetent politicians and bureaucrats over it
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Podcast name? My blood pressure isn't high enough today
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/1GAsGNE26xbjEBH8jtWsaN
Trigger warning these are silicon valley cute twinks
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What generation of warfare is it where you don't even commit violence, just write articles saying "you should keep yourself safe... now!" and send them to your enemies?
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Literally 0 (ZERO) babies, Black or white, have ever died under my care. Perhaps the solution isn't more Black or white Drs but... more Wigger Dr.s!!!
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