@RottenInDenmark Global Health/bioethics- I hate The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. The extremely unethical behavior of the author towards the living members of the family is insane to me yet it’s assigned reading in tons of intro classes
this comparison is extra fascinating to me, a pregnant person from the USA living in the U.K., where salmonella is not endemic.
one of the first things the midwife said to me was “make sure you only eat raw eggs if they’re Lion marked (assured salmonella vax scheme)
Full disclosure this hit VERY close to home for me since she was in the class after me at Taft. Pretty sure I even borrowed my now near favorite movie from her (Y Tu Mama Tambien) for my first watch back in 2005.
Definitely just read through @KendraJames_ Admissions in one sitting migrating to laying in bed and cannot recommend it enough for a witty, true look at race and class in elite white spaces.
As a disaster reporter, one of my major obsessions is data. Generation of useless data is one of the top ways that aid groups and governments fail people in need. 🧵
We are here because of repeated, intentional, catastrophically bad policy decisions that emphasize the economy over public health, when these interests are not even fundamentally opposed. These include:
Last but not least, @LexiCWhite is giving our final presentation at #APHA2021 discussing some of the legal/ethical issues that have we faced running a large student #COVID team and how we have responded.
NEW: people obsess over vaccine uptake stats, eagerly comparing one country to others to see which has jabbed the highest share of its population, but what if I told you many — perhaps most — of those stats are wrong?
Time for a thread on bad Covid data and how it can cost lives
@SamwiseGLAMgee There was a really good Atlantic article last week that talked about how it's not just about people buying more clothes, it's about return culture, buying multiple sizes, and how most returns wind up in the garbage: https://t.co/a8QpZeccVf
@ButNotTheCity I do reviews for American Journal of Preventive Medicine and can do reviews for anything public health, law, ethics, bioethics or combination thereof
@RottenInDenmark 5/n Again, the overall point of this law review article is solid, but the sloppy citation practices drive me nuts and make it very difficult to verify that 3% claim which is very powerful.
@RottenInDenmark 4/n but the NEJM article statistic is that for 3% of claims in their 1452 close malpractice claim study there were no verifiable medical injuries