Feb 2, 2025 08:12 PM
(This post was last modified: Feb 2, 2025 11:33 PM by C C.)
The life and death of a medical study
https://quillette.com/2025/01/27/the-lif...mortality/
INTRO: A 2015 study found that black newborns attended by white doctors die at twice the rate of those in the care of black doctors. The study’s refutation last year has not altered the progressive narrative of systemic racism in medicine... (MORE - details)
COMMENT: But critical theory and its specific offshoots like CRT were formulated long before any research endeavors in the soft sciences began catering to and supporting (theory-ladenness) this or any other school of thought outputted by the humanities. Thus, the expectation that retractions or refutations should alter the "narrative" seems unfounded, since the academic storytelling of literary intellectuals is not dependent upon science to begin with.
https://quillette.com/2025/01/27/the-lif...mortality/
INTRO: A 2015 study found that black newborns attended by white doctors die at twice the rate of those in the care of black doctors. The study’s refutation last year has not altered the progressive narrative of systemic racism in medicine... (MORE - details)
COMMENT: But critical theory and its specific offshoots like CRT were formulated long before any research endeavors in the soft sciences began catering to and supporting (theory-ladenness) this or any other school of thought outputted by the humanities. Thus, the expectation that retractions or refutations should alter the "narrative" seems unfounded, since the academic storytelling of literary intellectuals is not dependent upon science to begin with.