It may seem as if Craig Venter’s sales spiel at the 2000 Rose Garden Ceremony for the Human Genome Project becoming the conventional wisdom of the 21st century—race does not exist biologically—is merely a midwit distraction, but the true believers really want the actual health care to delete race-based practices that are used to save lies.
They don’t care how much blood they will have on their hands, they know they are the Good People who believe in Good Truth, so anybody who objects to endangering patients due to their stupid ideas is a Bad People and must be dealt with.
From NPR:
In the world of medicine, race-based diagnoses are still very real
MARCH 13, 20243:00 AM ET
The false notion of “biological race” is still sometimes used as a diagnostic tool in medicine. Why?
We’ve probably said it a hundred times on Code Switch—biological race is not a real thing. So why is race still used to help diagnose certain conditions, like keloids or cystic fibrosis? On this episode, Dr. Andrea Deyrup breaks it down for us, and unpacks the problems she sees with practicing race-based medicine, from delayed diagnoses to ignoring environmental factors that lead to different health outcomes. She says that while race-based health disparities are very real, the idea that our bodies are genetically different based on race is simply not.
