- 02 Feb 2018 15:47
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I get that. No worries.
You are not than naive I hope. He is simply race baiting and that is the very definition of racism. He is actually very bad and conveying the truth. Rather he uses obscure facts to present a racist agenda. Notice the mention that one of the nurses in the study was black. This is completely irrelevant and an obvious attempt to somehow blame blacks for what happened. He claims a high IQ so there are only two possibilities. Either he is not telling the truth about that or he is deliberately racist. Right? Did he just conveniently forget that the study was run almost universally by white men?
I am getting a little annoyed at the mods for allowing him to do this racist stuff.
Do you want an example of race baiting? I could give you one. Watch:
Got it? Tell me. The average person reading this would come up with a conclusion and a number. What does the above tell us?
Nothing really. What are the facts?
Well I stuck in a word that most people do not recognize and thereby forwarded a racist agenda. The number was "congenital". So what was the percentage of all cases that were congenital syphilis transmitted from mother to child? (For that is what congenital means.) The number is .0018%.
But I certainly did not intend to or give that impression. Right?
From the standpoint of an epidemiologist this number is meaningless.
The comment about black physicians was true but, just like his comment about one public health nurse, designed to convey a racist message.
Remember that nothing I said was untrue.
By the way, why is the rate higher in black women? Well guess what. Some epidemiologists explored that too. The answer is much less comprehensive and delayed prenatal care. This does not point to any fault in the black community but rather a fault in our health care system that unfavorably slights poor people. (This CDC study by the way is incomplete but a good working start.)
There is far more to this and we could discuss the epidemiology of syphilis; a disease we were on the brink of virtually eradicating in the US but that is roaring back now. I have deliberately not torn into that to remain on topic. Bulaba's digression into this subject is instructive because it allows us to show how manipulating the data to forward a particular agenda can work quite well and has in this thread.
I was commenting on how you were correct to note SunTzu was trying to insert race baiting (which has become typical) to derail things, and that you are able to read properly and saw there was nothing focusing on race there. I think you may have overlooked I was responding to his race-baiting post, not you.
I get that. No worries.
Sunny’s a peculiar one. I don’t think he’s racist as much as he is just very good at statistics and noticing differences about race. Have you seen that show The Good Doctor? That’s who SunTzu reminds me of.
You are not than naive I hope. He is simply race baiting and that is the very definition of racism. He is actually very bad and conveying the truth. Rather he uses obscure facts to present a racist agenda. Notice the mention that one of the nurses in the study was black. This is completely irrelevant and an obvious attempt to somehow blame blacks for what happened. He claims a high IQ so there are only two possibilities. Either he is not telling the truth about that or he is deliberately racist. Right? Did he just conveniently forget that the study was run almost universally by white men?
I am getting a little annoyed at the mods for allowing him to do this racist stuff.
Do you want an example of race baiting? I could give you one. Watch:
There is a syphilis epidemic in the US. 88000 cases.
57% of all congenital syphilis cases were in black women.
The rate of congenital syphilis in black women is 8 times higher than in whites.
Many of the physicians and practitioners who miss this diagnosis are black.
Got it? Tell me. The average person reading this would come up with a conclusion and a number. What does the above tell us?
Nothing really. What are the facts?
Well I stuck in a word that most people do not recognize and thereby forwarded a racist agenda. The number was "congenital". So what was the percentage of all cases that were congenital syphilis transmitted from mother to child? (For that is what congenital means.) The number is .0018%.
But I certainly did not intend to or give that impression. Right?
From the standpoint of an epidemiologist this number is meaningless.
The comment about black physicians was true but, just like his comment about one public health nurse, designed to convey a racist message.
Remember that nothing I said was untrue.
By the way, why is the rate higher in black women? Well guess what. Some epidemiologists explored that too. The answer is much less comprehensive and delayed prenatal care. This does not point to any fault in the black community but rather a fault in our health care system that unfavorably slights poor people. (This CDC study by the way is incomplete but a good working start.)
There is far more to this and we could discuss the epidemiology of syphilis; a disease we were on the brink of virtually eradicating in the US but that is roaring back now. I have deliberately not torn into that to remain on topic. Bulaba's digression into this subject is instructive because it allows us to show how manipulating the data to forward a particular agenda can work quite well and has in this thread.
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