Nov 11, 2021 09:25 PM
(This post was last modified: Nov 12, 2021 03:52 AM by C C.)
Scientific American again posting nonscientific political editorials
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-11271-...l#pid47098
Medical research rapidly adopts 'systemic racism' as undisputed truth
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/...02820.html
EXCERPT: . . . A lead editorial in the August special issue, co-signed by 15 people, including JAMA’s newly installed executive editor and executive managing editor, along with other JAMA leaders, said all medical journals are morally obligated to assume systemic racism as a fact and document this fact in their research.
“At this point in the arc of medicine and scientific publication,” JAMA stated, “it is crucial for all journals to fulfill renewed editorial and journal missions that include a heightened and appropriate emphasis on equity and publication of information that addresses structural racism with the goal of overcoming its effects in medicine and health care.”
This rapid turn of events has blindsided traditional doctors, who are put off by the intense focus on race and the strong rhetoric.
“The spectacle of the gatekeepers of medical publications announcing a political blueprint that medical authors must follow — or else — is pretty breathtaking,” Thomas Huddle, who retired this year as professor at the medical school at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said by email.
“The medical gatekeepers are in the grip of a moral panic,” said Huddle, who has published on medical ethics and edited several medical journals. “The JAMA convulsion over the podcast was positively Maoist in its fervor for achieving moral correctness and purging the impure.”
It's an open secret that some find the systemic explanation to be nothing more than leftist polemic, while others are skeptical it convincingly explains everything it claims to explain. These skeptics worry about the career implications of publicly dissenting from the new orthodoxy, but it's not inconceivable that blaming an entire national culture for racial disparities will prompt independent scholars and conservative think tanks to produce opposing research that explores black-on-black murder, racial disparities in IQ testing and other taboo subjects.
The dramatic transformation sweeping through the health care profession is not happening in a vacuum. It mirrors social justice movements committed to exposing structural racism that allegedly pervades education, criminal justice, the arts, hard sciences and other domains of U.S. society. Activists in those fields, as well as medicine, talk of dismantling white supremacy and other “structures” that operate by means of race-neutral laws and colorblind norms that cause racial and gender power imbalances and harm non-white groups.
Skeptical physicians say that medical journal editors are essentially replacing the scientific method with a political ideology, namely critical race theory, and leaving little room for alternative explanations — such as personal agency or cultural differences... (MORE - missing details)
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Cynic: Prescribed, no less. Biomedical and social science fields -- from 2020 onward, henceforth -- have willingly bent over and allowed the latest incarnation of CulHeg to go medieval on their buttocks, begging for more afterwards.
Mister Rogers: Can you say phi_lo_so_phy_cult? Can you say descended from Marxism?
Cynic: In the future: Laugh, laugh, laugh whenever you see one of these scientists whining about slash disparaging philosophy, or beating on their chest about their objectivity and lack of ideologically motivated interpretation and goals.
Because now you know their jaws are dropped to the surface of the barnyard, and they are scooping it up like Big Brutus let loose on an underground coal strip in Kansas.
Actually, they've been doing lesser versions for some time before this. (With respect to the lay population overall, not just the human sciences -- we had that historical detour through the New Left, that broadened from the traditional, narrowed fixation on merely being the "Good Karl" gospel saviors of the proletariat.)
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-11271-...l#pid47098
Medical research rapidly adopts 'systemic racism' as undisputed truth
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/...02820.html
EXCERPT: . . . A lead editorial in the August special issue, co-signed by 15 people, including JAMA’s newly installed executive editor and executive managing editor, along with other JAMA leaders, said all medical journals are morally obligated to assume systemic racism as a fact and document this fact in their research.
“At this point in the arc of medicine and scientific publication,” JAMA stated, “it is crucial for all journals to fulfill renewed editorial and journal missions that include a heightened and appropriate emphasis on equity and publication of information that addresses structural racism with the goal of overcoming its effects in medicine and health care.”
This rapid turn of events has blindsided traditional doctors, who are put off by the intense focus on race and the strong rhetoric.
“The spectacle of the gatekeepers of medical publications announcing a political blueprint that medical authors must follow — or else — is pretty breathtaking,” Thomas Huddle, who retired this year as professor at the medical school at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said by email.
“The medical gatekeepers are in the grip of a moral panic,” said Huddle, who has published on medical ethics and edited several medical journals. “The JAMA convulsion over the podcast was positively Maoist in its fervor for achieving moral correctness and purging the impure.”
It's an open secret that some find the systemic explanation to be nothing more than leftist polemic, while others are skeptical it convincingly explains everything it claims to explain. These skeptics worry about the career implications of publicly dissenting from the new orthodoxy, but it's not inconceivable that blaming an entire national culture for racial disparities will prompt independent scholars and conservative think tanks to produce opposing research that explores black-on-black murder, racial disparities in IQ testing and other taboo subjects.
The dramatic transformation sweeping through the health care profession is not happening in a vacuum. It mirrors social justice movements committed to exposing structural racism that allegedly pervades education, criminal justice, the arts, hard sciences and other domains of U.S. society. Activists in those fields, as well as medicine, talk of dismantling white supremacy and other “structures” that operate by means of race-neutral laws and colorblind norms that cause racial and gender power imbalances and harm non-white groups.
Skeptical physicians say that medical journal editors are essentially replacing the scientific method with a political ideology, namely critical race theory, and leaving little room for alternative explanations — such as personal agency or cultural differences... (MORE - missing details)
- - - - - -
Cynic: Prescribed, no less. Biomedical and social science fields -- from 2020 onward, henceforth -- have willingly bent over and allowed the latest incarnation of CulHeg to go medieval on their buttocks, begging for more afterwards.
Mister Rogers: Can you say phi_lo_so_phy_cult? Can you say descended from Marxism?
Cynic: In the future: Laugh, laugh, laugh whenever you see one of these scientists whining about slash disparaging philosophy, or beating on their chest about their objectivity and lack of ideologically motivated interpretation and goals.
Because now you know their jaws are dropped to the surface of the barnyard, and they are scooping it up like Big Brutus let loose on an underground coal strip in Kansas.
Actually, they've been doing lesser versions for some time before this. (With respect to the lay population overall, not just the human sciences -- we had that historical detour through the New Left, that broadened from the traditional, narrowed fixation on merely being the "Good Karl" gospel saviors of the proletariat.)