Professor: “Race is a social construct.” Doctor: “Great, then we can give you an organ donation from a different race.” Professor: “Hell no, that’s just something I say so I can get paid!”
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lolwut? The idea that someone would even think to ask let alone care about an organ donor’s race is really telling on yourself. There are multiple doctors in my family and this is a weird fixation that exists exclusively in racists’ talking points.https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1071825748707631106 …
You should ask the doctors in your family if race affects organ donor compatibility. If it doesn’t, have them raise the alarm, because that means there is a terrible medical racist conspiracy to keep blacks on dialysis.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2954674/ … Turns out it doesn't have an effect, and yeah you're probably right there is most likely a conspiracy to keep black people on dialysis seeing as it's a multi-billion dollar industry
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This article above is about liver transplants. Here's one about kidney transplants w/ a 72,000+ sample size that concludes the only increased rejection risk between races for kidney donors is black to black and black to whitehttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2826243/ …
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Also remember not only are black kidney issues largely associated with health issues also associated with poverty, but you're talking not difference at a year and a difference of up 20% of the 7% of total kidney failures after 5 years, which back of the napkin math still puts at
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A failure rate of under 10% (1.2 × .7 ~ .9 or just under 9%)
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Which yeah that's a huge difference as far as the medical field is concerned but not as large of a difference as the common ear hears and not even enough to say that financial standing can't explain it
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it's because living kidneys are almost always donated by friends/relatives, and black communities have higher rates of conditions that preclude donation (American Journal of Kidney Diseases, June 2012). but if an organ is healthy enough to be donated, it's suitable for anyone.
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Wow Stefan, you have kicked up a hornets nest this past week. Keep up the good work.
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Stefan’s tweet is stupidly wrong but that’s not a correct counter argument. “If different race, then organ transplant impossible” does not imply “If organ transplant impossible, than different race”. Fallacy of affirming the consequent.
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He’s saying a prof wouldn’t take an organ from another race because it wouldn’t work, which would mean he’s saying the other way around but eh whatev
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Jackie's article is odd. The numbers don't jive with the stated analysis. I'm inclined now to believe that there is significant differences given the percentages shown in that article of one organ transplant where the authors acknowledge that people were only self identifying.
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This could be seen as you claiming that a persons blood type is an indicator of race. People with more similar genes, like two red-haired men, are more likely to be matches for organs. Who would have guessed it!? But how on earth do you define race?
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I have a friend - my brother from another mother - black, and type-1 diabetic. . . now on dialysis. . . I'll let him know immediately.
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