This is yet another example of the contagion of woke infecting the realm of science and academic inquiry. It’s long since set up shop in the quads of some of our august institutions (quite literally, in some cases in recent memory) and it’s no surprise that its reach has extended to erstwhile flagship academic journals like NEJM. I hope …
This is yet another example of the contagion of woke infecting the realm of science and academic inquiry. It’s long since set up shop in the quads of some of our august institutions (quite literally, in some cases in recent memory) and it’s no surprise that its reach has extended to erstwhile flagship academic journals like NEJM. I hope one consequence of the beatdown in yesterday’s election will be an awakening such that people will start extricating their craniums from their rectums.
Obviously, “race” makes a difference. There are inherent biologic variations based on one’s ethnic/genetic heritage, the fact of which is altogether indifferent to various idiotic social frameworks du jour. Different “races” will have different “normal range” of FEV1, just as they do of waist circumference. Or that biologic men and women will have different “normal ranges” for LV mass index. No amount of kvetching about “equity” will change such biologic realities.
This is yet another example of the contagion of woke infecting the realm of science and academic inquiry. It’s long since set up shop in the quads of some of our august institutions (quite literally, in some cases in recent memory) and it’s no surprise that its reach has extended to erstwhile flagship academic journals like NEJM. I hope one consequence of the beatdown in yesterday’s election will be an awakening such that people will start extricating their craniums from their rectums.
Obviously, “race” makes a difference. There are inherent biologic variations based on one’s ethnic/genetic heritage, the fact of which is altogether indifferent to various idiotic social frameworks du jour. Different “races” will have different “normal range” of FEV1, just as they do of waist circumference. Or that biologic men and women will have different “normal ranges” for LV mass index. No amount of kvetching about “equity” will change such biologic realities.