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Four years ago, a study said white doctors were effectively killing black babies. The study was wrong.
American Thinker ^ | 18 Sep, 2024 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 09/19/2024 4:31:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Scientists finally re-analyzed the study and found that it was riddled with errors—but that didn’t matter then because it furthered the narrative.

In America, an inordinate number of so-called “scientific” studies are subject to what’s called the “replication (or reproducibility) crisis.” If someone publishes a study that feeds into leftist shibboleths, no matter how poorly done the study is (small sampling, foolish assumptions, bad math, etc.), the results are widely trumpeted and become embedded in the popular consciousness. That the study cannot be replicated (run again from scratch) or reproduced (subject to a new analysis of the study’s data)—and often nobody even tries to do these things—is irrelevant. The narrative overrides the scientific method.

A classic example of the scientific lie getting halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on was a 2020 study claiming that black babies were much more likely to die under a white doctor’s care. The study’s results were understood to mean that the white doctors were so racist that they were killing babies. However, that study recently got the rigorous analysis it deserved, revealing that it was completely wrong. By then, though, it was already part of the popular racial consciousness.

The worst area for the crisis is in the faux science area of psychology, where “science” often boils down to biased observation. However, the purportedly hard science of medicine isn’t much better.

With that background, here are the tweets, which I’ve run through the Thread Reader for easier viewing (including removing duplicate images):

1) Remember when the neo-segregationist left told you that white doctors were killing black babies?

Turns out they were either incapable of analyzing their own data or outright lying to you.

A new study demolishes the failings and falsehoods in that first study. We unpack it:

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: 2020; 2023; babies; badscience; badstudies; birth; birthweight; blackdoctors; blacknewborns; cnn; fairadmissions; fakestudies; falseclaims; harvard; hoax; identitypolitics; justicejackson; ketanjibrownjackson; ketanjijackson; leftists; libmyths; mediots; mortality; mortalityrates; myths; newborns; picheta; presstitutes; pseudoscience; psychology; race; racialdivision; racism; robpicheta; science; scientificstudies; sfa; sffa; shibboleths; studies; supremecourt; wbitedoctors; whitedoctors
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To: MtnClimber

Hmmm...maybe they were seeing white doctors at the abortion clinics


21 posted on 09/19/2024 5:47:10 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: MtnClimber

Democrats are killing black babies via abortion. Most are to dumb to recognize it!


22 posted on 09/19/2024 5:53:54 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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To: MtnClimber

Left wing propagandists: they deal in lies and deceit.


23 posted on 09/19/2024 5:55:58 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: yldstrk

“was not able to convince any of my three children who all are conservative.”

Kudos to you, yldstrk.


24 posted on 09/19/2024 5:59:27 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: Singermom

Margaret Sanger and her Negroe Project is heralded by the left as a great success. Obama brought in the Immigrants he is the master playing his evil game.


25 posted on 09/19/2024 6:00:06 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: MtnClimber

Did they count abortions?


26 posted on 09/19/2024 6:21:02 AM PDT by BereanBrain
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To: MtnClimber

They are planning white genocide in both America and Europe.


27 posted on 09/19/2024 7:05:01 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: MtnClimber

Knock me over with a feather.

Science is lies.


28 posted on 09/19/2024 7:56:56 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: MtnClimber

The scientific community is compromised like every other large entity. They’ve all been corrupted and I take nothing they report at face value. Duh.


29 posted on 09/19/2024 8:17:30 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: yldstrk
“Political differences can tear families apart..'' Ain't that the truth. My younger sister is a liberal and a rabid Trump hater and we haven't spoken to each other since my father died six years ago. Now I know how they felt in 1861.
30 posted on 09/19/2024 8:45:59 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: MtnClimber

Doctors don’t look at the color. They ask about “how good is the patient’s insurance?”


31 posted on 09/19/2024 8:50:20 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Singermom

African-American women comprise 4% of the child bearing population in America and at the same time account for 36% of all abortions preformed in America.

4% of an ethnic population in America is killing 36% of it’s children before those children ever see the light of day.

Do those Black lives matter?


32 posted on 09/19/2024 8:52:13 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: marktwain

I see it in diet studies all the time. They will say a keto diet is no good, but define “Keto” as 45% carbs, and then say it doesn’t work. But “Keto” comes from ketosis, which implies a very low carb diet, maybe 10-15% carbs.

Or they will say “Red meat” is bad for you, but then define red meat as a burger, fries and Coke at McDonalds. Or “processed meat” as a pepperoni pizza and a coke. They can then conclude we all ought to eat plants only.

“Carrot Juice is Murder”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmK0bZl4ILM


33 posted on 09/19/2024 9:32:53 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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To: jmacusa

Revolution too. King George or USA.


34 posted on 09/20/2024 9:17:38 AM PDT by yldstrk
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