RFK Jr’s claim about Black people’s immune systems is ‘unscientific and terrifying’
RFK Jr’s claim about Black people’s immune systems is ‘unscientific and terrifying’
Kennedy’s hearing signifies how close a man with medically racist beliefs is to becoming the US’s leading health official
Kennedy’s hearing signifies how close a man with medically racist beliefs is to becoming the US’s leading health official
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It's just super old school racism is what it is. I'm talking like 17th century racism.
Creating Caucasians/Aryans remains the stupidest science. Bunch of hateful twits obsessed with bullshit like where Noah's Arc was and measuring their own heads. Filthy rotten fuckers, every one of them. Paved the way for shit like
A 2016 survey revealed that of 222 white American medical students and residents, nearly 60% thought Black people’s skin is thicker than white peoples, and 12% thought Black people’s nerve endings were less sensitive than those of white people.
jfc...
This is a huge problem, the stats are way worse for nurses as I recall. Even some textbooks still claim that black people have higher pain tolerance and need less medication. Black people are denied opioids and treated as “drug seeking” far more than white patients. They can have problems accessing treatment for opioid use disorders too.
In 2021, maternal mortality rates for black women were about 2.6 that of non Hispanic white women. Its not hard to see why.
Some of the dumbest people I've ever met have been doctors and nurses, the more the specialize the worse shit to, they are so hyper focused on their jobs they just fall into the stupidest shit.
As the old joke goes: what do you call the person who finishes last in their class at medical school? Doctor.
Like Ben Carson.
Dude is dumb as a bag of rocks.
That's kind of a weird savant situation though. He really is an amazing brain surgeon. He's just a moron otherwise. He's like The Todd on Scrubs if The Todd was a religious freak instead of a sexual freak.