Author of Study Claiming Black Babies Die More Often Axed Data

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

https://www.mrctv.org/blog/brittany-m-hughes/author-viral-study-claiming-black-babies-die-more-often-under-white-doctors

In 2020, a “study” went viral that purported black babies in the United States were more likely to die during birth when cared for by white doctors, but that their survival rate post-birth rose dramatically when looked after by physicians of their own race.

In August of that year, even as Black Lives Matter riots still raged across much of the U.S. as race-baiting politicians stoked the fires of division and hatred, CNN published a report suggesting that callous white doctors we’re responsible for black children dying in droves thanks to some race-based disparity in their medical care.

“The mortality rate of Black newborns in hospital shrunk by between 39% and 58% when Black physicians took charge of the birth, according to the research, which laid bare how shocking racial disparities in human health can affect even the first hours of a person’s life,” CNN reported at the time, adding that “By contrast, the mortality rate for White babies was largely unaffected by the doctor’s race.”

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Except it also wasn't true.

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The new study, conducted by two Harvard researchers at the Institute for Family Studies, found that the original 2020 study “did not control for the impact of very low birth weights (i.e., under 1,500 g) on newborn mortality.”

“Although these types of births are rare, they occur more frequently in the Black population, and they account for a very high fraction of mortality,” the Harvard team found.

“It turns out that a disproportionately large number of Black newborns with very low birth weights are attended by White physicians. We show that once we control for the impact of very low birth weights on mortality, the estimate of the racial concordance effect is substantially weakened and becomes statistically insignificant in models that account for other factors that determine newborn mortality. In other words, the newborns attended by White and Black physicians are not random samples. Black newborns with a very low birth weight are disproportionately more likely to be attended by White doctors than by Black doctors. Those newborns are also more likely to have a low chance of survival.”

A racist blood libel.

[SVPete]

Adding emphasis:

The new study, conducted by two Harvard researchers at the Institute for Family Studies, found that the original 2020 study “did not control for the impact of very low birth weights (i.e., under 1,500 g) on newborn mortality.”

“Although these types of births are rare, they occur more frequently in the Black population, and they account for a very high fraction of mortality,” the Harvard team found.

Failing to control for a significant factor like this is either very sloppy or knowingly and intentionally skewing the outcome. Modern "research" is often sloppy, and sometimes data is selected or skewed to produce a pre-determined outcome, so I won't try to guess whether the original study was sloppily done or conducted to produce a pre-determined outcome.

[Old n Grumpy]

They didn’t take in the consideration, how many of them die at the hands of Planned Parenthood