I suppose that they don't do a lot of research at that university.
Posted on 11/25/2008 4:33:20 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
It only kills people like Dean Barnett. Not nearly progressive enough.
Cystic fibrosis “has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men” said the motion read to student councillors, who voted almost unanimously in favour of it…
Carleton students have fanned out across the city near the beginning of the school year to raise money to fight the illness for years. But according to the motion read Monday night to student councillors, “all orientees and volunteers should feel like their fundraising efforts will serve the their (sic) diverse communities.”…
“I think they see this, in their own twisted way, as a win for diversity,” said Mr. Bergamini. “I see it as a loss for people with cystic fibrosis.”…
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I guess we should stop fighting AIDS.( not diverse enough)
Words fail....
Well, we certainly don’t need to protect and preserve WHITE MEN!!!
They carry guns, believe in God, hunt, vote Republican and caused all the problems in the world. (Sarcasm)
No problem there.
Guess they better not consider raising funds for sickle cell anemia, eh?
Well, it’s like I tell all those people that are constantly trying to hit me up for money for breast cancer research; when you start collecting money for prostate cancer, give me a call.
Tay-Sachs fundraising, anyone?
Dang, late again!
It effects children. Why don’t they want to help children?
I suppose that they don't do a lot of research at that university.
It will only get worse in the next 8 years.
Other Indians fear that official federal recognition of the Abenaki will result in them receiving smaller payments from the US government. That's why they created the BS story that "squaw", the Abenaki word for "woman" (and a feminine grammatical part of speech in all Iroquoian languages), meant "whore".
The university crowd did very little research into that matter and ran pall-mall down hill into the swamps of abject ignorance.
Same thing here ~ they've decided "Caucasian" means "white", and that's really, really difficult to 'splain to the folks from the Bangalore Coast!
I wonder how they feel about sickle cell anemia? That is a pretty small population segment as potential sufferers.
"They carry guns, believe in God, hunt, vote Republican and caused all the problems in the world. (Sarcasm)"
I met some young White guys the other night who agree with you...they hate themselves because they're White.
They were all proud to tell me that they voted for Obama too.
I just forwarded the story to Rush Limbaugh.
“Raise money for Sickle cell anemia.
No problem there.”
Not to do so would be considered racist.
Cystic fibrosis is indeed more common in caucasians, but it is by no means limited to caucasians. It has a prevalence of about 1 in 3,000 in whites in the U.S. However, it also has a prevalence of about 1 in 13,000 in Hispanics and 1 in 15,000 in African-Americans. This is not due solely to racial mixing, as cases of CF have been reported in black Africans with absolutely no caucasian heritage. CF in non-white populations may actually be under-recognized, for two reasons. One is that the genetic analysis that tests for the most frequently-seen mutations causing the disease can only test a couple dozen of hundreds of possible mutations, and the most common mutations that it tests for are more prevalent in whites with the disease than non-whites (the mutations do seem to be ethnicity-specific). Secondly, there are misinformed individuals (many physicians included), that think non-whites cannot have CF and so do not refer a patient with symptoms that may be due to to the disease for testing because they are not white. I have had patients with CF who are black, Hispanic, and from the Middle East.
Simply put, people who want to complain that CF is not “diverse” and state that it affects only whites are fools.
The resulting estimate of incidence relative to live births among whites is 1:3419 while that among non-whites is 1:12,163. As a by-product of the modelling approach, estimates of the underlying average diagnosis age given survival to diagnosis are 4.09 years for whites and 4.55 years for non-whites, but this difference was not statistically significant and appears to demonstrate that diagnosis efforts may be approximately the same for whites and non-whites. Also, as another by-product of the modelling approach, CF mortality was estimated as more severe for females than males and marginally more severe for non-whites than whites.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8668871?dopt=Abstract
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