All because scientists, physicians, other health and public health professionals, and the general public fought back.
I do genealogy research on my own family and can see this in the pre-WWII records. An aunt who died at 36 within a month of a child’s death at birth, a census record where a great grandmother noted that 3 of 6 children born are still alive… the list goes on.
The bottom line is that the forces of white supremacy cannot abide a multiracial country with equal rights for all. We are a nation bound by ideals, not a “blood and soul” country led by a “in” group. Not perfect, but we can hope and strive.
Physics, biology, chemistry, math - there’s a reason we study these.
It is interesting how much more coverage this editorial, and the politicization of biomedical research, got as a result of the ADA’s initial actions. If the organization, and the AMA, want to join the fight there’s plenty of room for them.
I think this makes “Peace with Honor” look like the Treaty of Paris.
I’ve attended a few workshops and conferences in the last month and what struck me were the names on the final acknowledgment slides. A very large proportion of them appeared to be Asian, Hispanic/Latino, or African. We’ve had the advantage of drawing the best and brightest from around the world.
Timeline cleanse. Our yellow-crowned night heron neighbor.
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“Measles running rampant, public health destroyed, a trillion dollars ripped from Medicaid, inadequate physician payment, stupid immigration rules,” Fryhofer told AMA members in promising to call out Kennedy and the Trump administration on all of it.
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RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
In 1863, Lincoln signed the National Academy of Sciences into law as an INDEPENDENT non-gov entity.
Since WW2, we enjoyed pre-eminence in research. We benefitted from Germany's brain drain.
We had the privilege of first access to next gen treatments before other countries. They looked to us. 🧪🧵
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One reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth
One thing that I've been thinking about is how today's rise in White Supremacist ideology mirrors what we saw in the lead up to the Civil War during the 1840s and 50s. I don't think we're going to have another civil war (for a lot of reasons), but there are a ton of parallels. 1/x
