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27. If I was a public health official

Fri Apr 6, 2012, 02:21 PM

Apr 2012

and I had to develop health care policies for a large number of people, then those "statistical correlations" are critically important. They will tell me the likelihood that a particular population will develop certain diseases. It would enable me to manage my resources in the most effective manner to benefit the largest number of people. Thus, if I was dealing with a majority AA population, I know I must allocate more resources to prevent and treat hypertension than I would if I was dealing with a population with few AA.

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Did you bother to READ those articles or did you dismiss them out of hand? davsand Apr 2012 #12

Relying on VAERS, are we? Watch out you don't turn into the Incredible Hulk NickB79 Apr 2012 #43

Blacks should be cautious about calls for mass inoculations. MD20 Apr 2012 #13

Technically, there are no "pure" white or black genes... antigone382 Apr 2012 #21

Race is horseshit, and therefore racial correlations are horseshit too. bemildred Apr 2012 #14

Ever heard of a caucasian getting sickle cell anemia? Beacool Apr 2012 #15

"Caucasian" is also horseshit. bemildred Apr 2012 #16

I'm not going to argue. Beacool Apr 2012 #18

OK. nt bemildred Apr 2012 #24

Look, it's like thinking if a dog has brown hair, then you know something about it's metabolism. bemildred Apr 2012 #17

If those genetic markers were not evenly distributed in all types of dogs hack89 Apr 2012 #20

Yeah, I know about that, but those are just statistical correlations. bemildred Apr 2012 #22

If I was a public health official hack89 Apr 2012 #27

The problem is that populations don't develop diseases. bemildred Apr 2012 #30

Multifactorial polygenic diseases hack89 Apr 2012 #32

Which still happens only to individuals. bemildred Apr 2012 #33

But two individuals from seperate groups may require different treatments for the same disease. hack89 Apr 2012 #35

I really think we have wrung all the juice out of this for the moment. bemildred Apr 2012 #38

Just think in terms of genetic groups and it is less of an issue. hack89 Apr 2012 #40

That's really all I'm saying, just leave race out of it. bemildred Apr 2012 #41

A very rational position... rayofreason Apr 2012 #42

Genetics determines lots of things. bemildred Apr 2012 #34

Yes they do. hack89 Apr 2012 #36

Here is the argument I'm making: bemildred Apr 2012 #39

Humans are divided into numerous distinct genetic groups called haplogroups. hack89 Apr 2012 #19

Right, and we've been mixing them all together rapidly for the last 500 years. bemildred Apr 2012 #23

Wrong hack89 Apr 2012 #25

A couple of centuries HAVE undone millions of years of evolution already. bemildred Apr 2012 #26

Except genetically halogroups are still there hack89 Apr 2012 #28

There is no evidence that any of those events have impacted the human genome. nt hack89 Apr 2012 #29

Right. bemildred Apr 2012 #31

I wouldn't say millions of years, more like about 100 to 50 thousand years ago when humans... Humanist_Activist Apr 2012 #37

Interesting thread. After a review I tend to agree with Liber-AL Apr 2012 #44

Hey. bemildred Apr 2012 #45

YW Liber-AL Apr 2012 #46