Posted on 11/06/2022 4:09:51 PM PST by Twotone
The National Institutes of Health has issued more than a million dollars via taxpayer-funded medical research grants to find evidence that racism is to blame for poor sleep in minority communities.
The funding was appropriated to Dr. Alexander Tsai, an associate professor at Harvard University who is conducting the research through Massachusetts General Hospital, where he works as a psychiatrist.
The studies are based on the hypothesis that the disparity in sleep health in the black community is “thought to be explained partially by experiences of interpersonal racial discrimination.”
“This application focuses on police use of deadly force on unarmed black Americans as a cardinal manifestation of structural racism,” reads the grant summary in the NIH database. “The central hypothesis is that police use of deadly force on unarmed black Americans leads to unhealthy sleep among other black Americans in the general U.S. population. This hypothesis has been formulated on the basis of strong preliminary data showing that police use of deadly force on unarmed black Americans leads to poor mental health among other black Americans in the general U.S. population.”
NIH awarded $460,656 to Tsai in 2020, $439,970 in 2021, and $273,625 in 2022 for the research project, titled “Racial disparities in police use of deadly force as a cause of racial disparities in sleep health across the life course.”
That totals nearly $1.2 million over three years.
“The findings will have significant public health impact because they will provide proof of principle for development and targeting of structural and psychosocial interventions to reduce racial disparities in sleep health,” the grant summary reads.
Critics told The Center Square that the research is based on false assumptions and don't account for other factors.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecentersquare.com ...
Poor sleep is caused by crime, and the fear of crime
There. Now gimme $1.2 million
The National Institutes of Health has issued more than a million dollars via taxpayer-funded medical research grants to find evidence that racism is to blame for poor sleep in minority communities.
Correction.....The National Institutes of Health has issued more than a million dollars via taxpayer-funded medical research grants to give money to liberal college professors who will then kick back some of that money to the folks that issued it, because damn near everything about government research and spending is nothing more than money laundering.
Fixed it.
Work hard and sleep well. Pretty simple. No need to blow my tax dollars that I worked hard for.
no. You need to have a PhD to “model” how fear of discrimination causes sleepless nights.
What causes sleepless in white people? Just copy that study and collect $1.2 million!
no. You need to have a PhD to “model” how fear of discrimination causes sleepless nights.
What causes sleepless in white people? Just copy that study and collect $1.2 million!
We do some volunteer work at the local Catholic seminary, which 100 yrs ago was in a nice part of town, and is now located in the ‘hood.
The rector told me “there’s a lot of gunshots at night, but thank God there’s a 10ft high stone wall around the building.
Hard to sleep with all the gang violence and drive byes in the hood.
an associate professor at Harvard University who is conducting the research through Massachusetts General Hospital, where he works as a psychiatrist.
There’s your problems right there
Wasn’t that mASS Gen Hospital in the news last week for another totally asisnine policy? Something like it won’t admit you if you don’t pass some PC test
Dr Tsai, here’s an easily proven topic for your next research:
“Liberalism is truly a mental disorder”
Easy money, Doc Go for it.
Poor sleep is caused by having 4 dogs who like to go out in the middle of the night to pee.
I know this.
The idiocy just keeps on rolling in.
Ha! I thought it was caused by hot flashes exacerbated by having four cats sleeping on you. :-)
How could that possibly be determined, with dream interpretation perhaps.
to find evidence that racism is to blame for poor sleep in minority communities.
Doc,
I got the racism real bad.
Ya gotta give me a pill!
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/10/the-sleep-gap-and-racial-inequality/412405/
Which is why it seems worth asking: Are there policy interventions that could, realistically, help to improve how black Americans sleep?
But of course they did. The trillion dollar spending bills were about payoffs.
This is but a drop in the bucket...
P. h. D.
Piled
higher &
Deeper
it’s not a given?
isn’t everything???
Sleeplessness among minorities is caused by doctors studying them as if they were some sort of exotic animals.
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