"He's really perpetuating this false belief that Black people are somehow biologically different from white people and, in that way, justifying differential and ultimately unequal treatment for Black people versus white people," Blackstock added.
"By saying that, he was putting on one of the larger stages in health care this notion that race-based medicine should still exist, when that's actually what many scientists recently have been trying to root out," Bervell said.
Race-based medicine and scientific racism has led to undertreatment of Black patients, dismissal of pain and even death, Blackstock stressed…
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