Kennedy’s hearing signifies how close a man with medically racist beliefs is to becoming the US’s leading health official

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    What’s your point? If you read the article, the point is that the data doesn’t support his claim. Nobody us claiming that race can’t have an affect on how people respond to diseases. Honestly tho, you’re more likely to see differences from individual to individual. This is why we do double blind studies with placebo.

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      16 hours ago

      I think their point is not to conflate scientific racism with the actual medical needs of different ethnic backgrounds. Nor to conflate either with scientific misinterpretation, or plain immorality, which is more what Kennedy is advocating for.

      The author of the study sums it up quite nicely: the results of this study so not support inequitable vaccination. If we just claim Kennedy is trying to sort humans into different subspecies, that’s just going to muddy the argument that his stance is wrong and immoral.