"Yarr, me hearties! This anti-racism be takin' precedence o'er proper medical know-how, puttin' patients in peril, says I!"
2023-10-27
Ibram X. Kendi's scallywag brand of anti-racism be wreakin' havoc on real medicine, puttin' patients in peril, says I. The CDC be part o' the trouble, claimin' racism be a 'fundamental' cause o' 'inequities'. Har har, it be a right barnacle on the ship o' sanity!
Ibram X. Kendi, the famous "anti-racist" professor, is facing intense scrutiny after it was revealed that his "Center for Antiracist Research" wasted millions of dollars on producing little to no research. While Kendi may be disgraced, his influence on academia, particularly in the medical research field, is concerning. Anti-racism ideology has replaced scientific rigor in understanding health disparities, with leading healthcare organizations claiming that such disparities are evidence of racism. The CDC and the National Institutes of Health assert that systemic racism is the cause of health inequities. In the past, health experts focused on understanding and addressing health disparities through a range of factors, including biology, genetics, and access to healthcare. However, now racism is blindly stated as the cause, despite there being little evidence to support this claim. Anti-racist ideology is enforced and propagated through peer-reviewed medical journals, which shape public opinion on critical issues. The American Medical Association's strategy to embed racial justice and advance health equity is misguided, as research should be focused on the pursuit of knowledge, not social transformation. Medical journals like the Journal of the American Medical Association and Health Affairs have embraced this radicalism, accepting the argument that disparities are evidence of racism. This has led to a decline in scientific rigor and an obsession with race in medical scholarship. It is crucial for reflection and honesty to be prioritized, especially in medical schools and research, in order to prevent the subversion of the medical enterprise by anti-racist ideology. Patients stand to lose much from this conquest of medical scholarship by ideology.