RFK Jr’s claim about Black people’s immune systems is ‘unscientific and terrifying’ - eviltoast

Kennedy’s hearing signifies how close a man with medically racist beliefs is to becoming the US’s leading health official

  • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Okay.

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4067985/

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2953791/

    https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/15/4/evad054/7092825

    I could find hundreds of references if I was being paid, it’s a very well established fact. It’s the reason organ transplant matches can be very difficult to find for people with African ancestry.

    Honestly it’s a bit weird to come back and see I’ve been downvoted. Echoes of Lysenkoism.

    • avattar@lemmy.sdf.org
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      16 days ago

      Thanks for taking the time to get these, and respond. I guess people are very on edge with the current political climate, and are reacting emotionallly to things. Which is partly the reason for the political situation, IMHO.

      Anyway, you mentioned differences between ethnicities in regards to immune systems, which doesn’t necessarily lead to “people with African ancestry need fewer vaccines and less healthcare”. Which seems to be the racists excuse.

      • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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        16 days ago

        which doesn’t necessarily lead to “people with African ancestry need fewer vaccines

        But it might (and I want to emphasize might, as in would require further study) mean that people of African ancestry could benefit from a different vaccine schedule than people of primarily European decent. Another thing in the “would be interesting and maybe even useful to know, but impossible to research and/or publish in the current environment” bucket.