Racialized Science
Institutionalized Racial Bias in Public Health: Inferior Care, Callous Disregard & Increased Deaths
“Whether it’s unconscious, explicit, institutional or research bias, discrimination in the health care system contributes to the stark disparities seen in how COVID-19 sickens and kills patients of color, health care experts agree.” USA Today The following draws on numerous investigative reports by ProPublica – including today’s scathing expose of the culpability of New York…
Read More“Racialized Science” Racial Selection of U.S. Soldiers
“Racialized science” is the misuse of scientific techniques to support racist hypotheses which are then used as a pretext to justify racism and discrimination “One aspect of the chemical warfare research program on mustard gas involved race-based human experimentation. In at least nine research projects conducted during the 1940s, scientists investigated how so-called racial differences…
Read More1933: American donates $1,000,000 to Kaiser-Wilhelm; “400,000 Germans to be sterilized”
Sept. 16, 1933: The Journal of the American Medical Association reports that the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany, headed by Professor Ernst Rudin, MD, had “received a bequest of $1,000,000 (from an American donor) . . . as a culmination of many previous gifts.” December 21, 1933: A front-page report in The New York Times estimates…
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