Posted on 01/08/2004 9:00:45 PM PST by neverdem
It looks that way...and to the benefit of us all. Color is just one varible in the genetic mix, and probably a minor one as it relates to the genetics of medicine.
Wishful thinking, yes. More specialty = more expense. Just think, in 1900, there wasn't a specialty titled archaeologist or anthroplogist. What will there be in 2050?
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I'm glad you had a few chuckles CM55. Maybe I'm mad, but I think most of us here are politically conservative, and most conservatives have "Ice Age Ancestors" that are white males as well as the converse, and that as far as most African-Americans are concerned we're racists.
This article rebuts the notion, prevalent in the African-American community and re-inforced by the major mainstream media, that African-Americans receive inferior medical care causing them to have increased morbidity and mortality because of a racist society that provides insufficient funding of their health care needs, and a predominantly white and racist medical profession that gives them only second rate care.
Maybe it's been too long since you looked at the major media like the NY Times, CNN, ABC, CBS, and CBS. AFAIK, the last three of them had a weekly segment dealing with the big medical story of the week from the Journal of the American Medical Association or the New England Journal of Medicine, which have an issue almost every week. There have been quite a few stories from those journals that inferred African-Americans received inadequate medical care because of some latent racism on the broadcast evening news.
Don't feel bad, I rarely watch ABC, CBS or NBC either. From 6:00 PM EST, I've been watching Brit Hume on FNC for years now. But you should know what your political enemies are thinking, and that's why I still scan the NY Times. Every once in a while, you'll find stories like this, that slip through the cracks.
As far as racism goes, it's the argument of nature versus nurture, with conservatives mostly saying nature is the predominant force which determines sociological outcomes, and liberals saying it's the lack of nurture, i.e. racism, which predominates.
Since the Great Society and all the programs that followed, I can't think of anything else the "Whites" of this country could do in order to show that they are not racist, but show them the facts.
IMHO, here you have the "paper of record" giving you a new, breaking news "gift horse" that you want to shuffle off out of sight, when it deserves the widest dissemination.
Bear with me, the hour is late. I believe you're saying Darwin is/was correct. I hope so because natural selection from random, natural mutations explains the antibiotic resistance of formerly sensitive pathogenic organisms after exposure to a previously lethal antibiotic, i.e. to the organism, if the patient finished the prescription, e.g. a patient didn't finish the complete course of treatment prescribed by the physician because the patient started to feel much better and didn't finish her/his medicine.
The magazine Science is not intended for general circulation, but the NY Times is. It's too bad you can't appreciate the import. I shall try a few more times before I surrender regarding science as an appropriate topic on FreeRepublic.com. I regret you are unable to appreciate what is new information. LOL
How is it that OJ Simpson and Madonna were breaking news and a new scientific conclusion isn't. OK, so the jocks like to make fun of the geeks, but that's only until the geeks fire them and tell them to work for someone else.
Shocking. How can this be? The creationists keep insisting that all mutations are harmful.
Thought by whom? Maybe some PC ideologues, but certainly not anyone with a functioning brain.
Well, this makes sense empirically. All of my ancestors came from arctic regions (if you go back far enough), none that I can recall were extremely fat, most only required one blanket for sleeping even during the coldest winters, all of them lived well into their late 80s and 90s but had brittle bones. Guess I'd better start taking more calcium and magnesium.
Swedish patriarch's first comment upon arriving in America: "Ya, sure...vell, ve go north!" ROFL! I always wondered why great-grandfather Alfred didn't bring the family to Florida.
I suppose it depends on one's point of view. Scandinavians are noted for taking very hot saunas and then immediately rolling in the snow, eating Lutefisk and Sylta (you don't want to know), and as my dearly deceased relatives would tell it - walking 10 miles barefoot in the snow each way to school (actually, I've tried walking barefoot in the snow...exhilarating!). I think it's up for debate as to whether these are the result of beneficial mitochondrial mutations or not. Then of course, my family could just be plain nuts! LOL
That's news to me. I believe that God created everything but I'm agnostic on how He did it. There's no doubt that evolution is a fact but, as someone with degrees in both chemistry and chemical engineering, I'm just not quite sold on the popular notion that pretty much anything can happen via evolution given enough time. The chemistry is very complicated.
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