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Re: Gigantic study of Chinese babies yields slew of health data

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These sorts of broad cohort studies wind up being enormously useful. The Scandinavian study keeps returning good results even today.

I would, mildly speculatively, hazard that enormous cost overruns are permissible and acceptable to the tune of 1000% if we could execute a similar cohort study in the entire United States for 30-50 years. The wealth of knowledge they can reveal is absolutely astounding and informs post/ante/neo-natal care to the point of redefining key practices.

Re: Gigantic study of Chinese babies yields slew of health data

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I wonder how much of the data generated isn't true of non-Chinese people. NPR goes into detail on why diverse clinical trials are necessary: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/12/16/4596667... > The blood thinner clopidogrel, or Plavix, doesn't work in the 75 percent of Pacific Islanders whose bodies don't produce the enzyme required to activate the drug. For them, taking the medication is like taking a p…

Race does not exist... therefore there won't be a genetic difference in average outcomes between different people groups. It is useful to think of variation from person-to-person but it is impossible to make comparisons between ethnic groups/races because no substantive differences exist among the various human populations. Probably the study results you reference are a result of different environments...

Since commenters so far seem to have missed it there's a ... at the end.

Contect here is an obvious /s

They are pointing out, you can't accept OP without accepting races also can have different personalities etc something ideologues don't accept.

Re: Gigantic study of Chinese babies yields slew of health data

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I wonder how much of the data generated isn't true of non-Chinese people. NPR goes into detail on why diverse clinical trials are necessary: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/12/16/4596667... > The blood thinner clopidogrel, or Plavix, doesn't work in the 75 percent of Pacific Islanders whose bodies don't produce the enzyme required to activate the drug. For them, taking the medication is like taking a p…

I've talked to one of my mentor's peer, who is a black woman, at the FDA NCTR and she said black women have it rough with breast cancer.

I just google it the term for what black women have they call it triple negative.

https://theconversation.com/why-is-breast-cancer-mortality-h...

One big reason why this happen is there are more clinical trials for white people than there are of other races. One of the reason for this that I got from her is that other races aren't lining up in numbers to go through clinical trials and that there should be more out reach in educating.

Re: Gigantic study of Chinese babies yields slew of health data

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I wonder how much of the data generated isn't true of non-Chinese people. NPR goes into detail on why diverse clinical trials are necessary: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/12/16/4596667... > The blood thinner clopidogrel, or Plavix, doesn't work in the 75 percent of Pacific Islanders whose bodies don't produce the enzyme required to activate the drug. For them, taking the medication is like taking a p…

Race does not exist... therefore there won't be a genetic difference in average outcomes between different people groups. It is useful to think of variation from person-to-person but it is impossible to make comparisons between ethnic groups/races because no substantive differences exist among the various human populations. Probably the study results you reference are a result of different environments...

I meant this comic to be a somewhat tongue-in-cheek parody of positions I have seen people take, which I intended the ellipses to hint at. Clearly there are some genetic differences between populations.

Re: Gigantic study of Chinese babies yields slew of health data

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I wonder how much of the data generated isn't true of non-Chinese people. NPR goes into detail on why diverse clinical trials are necessary: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/12/16/4596667... > The blood thinner clopidogrel, or Plavix, doesn't work in the 75 percent of Pacific Islanders whose bodies don't produce the enzyme required to activate the drug. For them, taking the medication is like taking a p…

Race does not exist... therefore there won't be a genetic difference in average outcomes between different people groups. It is useful to think of variation from person-to-person but it is impossible to make comparisons between ethnic groups/races because no substantive differences exist among the various human populations. Probably the study results you reference are a result of different environments...

I apologize for not making it clear that I intended this to be a parody illustrating the absurdity of a certain POV when carried to its logical extreme (most POVs are incorrect when carried to an extreme).

After further thought, I should have added an /s at the end or better yet not posted at all. My apology for the dishonesty to anyone who took this literally.

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