Posted on 03/27/2021 8:46:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Journal of the American Medical Association is one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world and is regularly cited as an authority on everything from cancer to erectile dysfunction.
Now JAMA is embroiled in controversy over a podcast on racism and medicine that didn’t include any black panelists. After hundreds of black doctors complained, the AMA fired the deputy editor of JAMA and suspended the editor-in-chief, Dr. Howard Bauchner, pending the outcome of an investigation.
The subject of the podcast was racism in healthcare which has been much in the news in recent months as racism has been blamed for the disparity in Covid deaths between blacks and whites.
“The decision to place the editor-in-chief on administrative leave neither implicates nor exonerates individuals and is standard operating procedure for such investigations,” the committee said in a statement.
Dr. Phil Fontanarosa, JAMA’s executive editor, will serve as interim editor.
“It’s a reasonable first step but it should not be seen as mission accomplished,” Dr. Raymond Givens, a Black cardiologist in New York, said Friday. He has been a vocal online critic of a lack of diversity among editors of JAMA and other prominent medical journals.
There are several possible explanations for why more blacks died proportionately than whites and most of them have to do with income disparities, not racial animus. Poor people are generally less healthy. They tend toward obesity, which makes them more susceptible to heart disease and diabetes. Black people also smoke at a higher rate than whites, which is a known factor in lung diseases like COPD and emphysema.
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If Dr. Raymond Givens hasn’t applied to be an editor of JAMA then he’s not Justified in his criticism.
I’m a racist. I will not accept a black doctor. Seeing how every college bends over backwards to promote affirmative action to fill diversity quotas, no thanks.
And in that regard EVERY black professional should be screaming to end affirmative action. I guarantee you I am not the only one who feels this way.
Every morning there is racism in my home. My black cat continues to attack my white cat every time he wants to poop in the cat box
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I’d want to know more about the editing process before making a conclusion. Based on this, it sounds as though you have to be published in JAMA before you can get a JAMA podcast. Are the speakers on the podcasts the authors of the papers and no one else?
The papers are peer-reviewed - the reviewer doesn’t know the race of the author. Did Givens submit any for publication that were rejected? Did he get published and was not offered a podcast?
Now we saw the flawed HCQ study get published rather quickly, so clearly there are flaws in the editing process.
I would not appoint Givens as editor just because he’s made a complaint like this.
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