Race-baiting Study Cited by Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson Turns Out to Be Total BS

Yet another headline-grabbing study has turned out to be complete nonsense, as anyone who gave it a few seconds of thought would’ve realized.

This discredited study in question claimed that infant mortality rates are higher for newborns cared for by white doctors, which they blame on racism, and was used to promote the idea that patients are better serviced by doctors of their race. Specifically, the study claimed that the gaps in mortality between black and white newborns declines 58% when black newborns are cared for by black doctors. In a 2023 SCOTUS ruling on affirmative action, Justice Jackson cited this study in her dissent.  

But as new reporting from the Daily Caller’s Emily Kopp, racism had nothing to do with it:

The study’s methods have been called into question. A September 2024 replication effort concluded that the original study authors did not statistically control for very low birth weight newborns at the highest risk of dying. Applying that control zeroed out any statistically significant effect of racial concordance on infant mortality. Now, evidence has emerged that the paper’s lead author buried information in order to tell a tidier story than the one his methods and data originally illustrated.

The study also deliberately left out data that disproved their thesis of “white supremacy” in the medical system - primarily that white newborns cared for by black doctors also had worse results (though this too could be from the study’s poor design). 

The study originally asserted that white babies died less frequently with white doctors.

“White newborns experience 80 deaths per 100,000 births more with a black physician than a white physician, implying a 22% fatality reduction from racial concordance,” an unpublished draft reads.

But the study’s lead author Brad N. Greenwood wrote in the margin: “I’d rather not focus on this. If we’re telling the story from the perspective of saving black infants this undermines the narrative.”

According to Kopp, the original study’s findings were reported on in at least 340 mainstream outlets.

How many do you think will report on this update? My guess is zero.