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Irunthis1's avatar

This is a significant problem and it reared its ugly head with regard to kidney transplant patients. The definition of renal failure varies depending on a persons genetic race in that what is “normal” value for African American patient would be in the failure or near failure range for Caucasian patients. This was kicking white people out of line for kidney transplant when they were far sicker than their African American counterparts who were fairly renally stable.

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Fla Mom's avatar

Thanks, run, that may indeed have been the example I was trying to recall but couldn't.

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Politico Phil's avatar

So, you want to use these medically observed differences to define race. Explain to me how genetic variability in the human race becomes the basis for maintaining that there is therefore a whole new species or race. This is logical junk.

Please define "race" for me and then explain how that all works to your position... in a logical manner. I only ask in the hopes that, perhaps, you may rethink your presuppositions about reality.

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patrick.net/memes's avatar

"A longstanding orthodoxy among social scientists holds that human races are a social construct and have no biological basis. A related assumption is that human evolution halted in the distant past, so long ago that evolutionary explanations need never be considered by historians or economists."

https://time.com/91081/what-science-says-about-race-and-genetics/

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David A's avatar

A scientist does not speak for science. The disparate physical characteristics of races have application today in many different ways, and suseptibility to disease.

The spiritual nature is however universal, as are the flaws and dark side of mankind.

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Copernicus's avatar

😡

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