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RFK Jr’s claim about Black people’s immune systems is ‘unscientific and terrifying’
(www.theguardian.com)
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Okay.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4067985/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2953791/
https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/15/4/evad054/7092825
I could find hundreds of references if I was being paid, it's a very well established fact. It's the reason organ transplant matches can be very difficult to find for people with African ancestry.
Honestly it's a bit weird to come back and see I've been downvoted. Echoes of Lysenkoism.
I think the downvoting comes from the aspect that even your cited sources have nothing to do with the original story. Because the ethnicities you are talking about have nothing to do with the black/white or African/Caucasian basis of modern racism. And hence the scientifically correct differences between peoples in different parts of Africa in your cited studies are not helping in any way, nor do they prove anything in regards to the original question.
That's the thing about racism I think: it's never really making sense, because it's based on pure pseudo science of the 19th/20th century.
Thanks for taking the time to get these, and respond. I guess people are very on edge with the current political climate, and are reacting emotionallly to things. Which is partly the reason for the political situation, IMHO.
Anyway, you mentioned differences between ethnicities in regards to immune systems, which doesn't necessarily lead to "people with African ancestry need fewer vaccines and less healthcare". Which seems to be the racists excuse.
But it might (and I want to emphasize might, as in would require further study) mean that people of African ancestry could benefit from a different vaccine schedule than people of primarily European decent. Another thing in the "would be interesting and maybe even useful to know, but impossible to research and/or publish in the current environment" bucket.