When Brains Go Woke and
Brawn Goes Bust
American Thinker,
by
Ed McEff
Original Article
Posted By: DW626,
6/17/2021 7:17:54 AM
I am a scientist, living in a beautiful little town that is home to a fine university with a good medical school and a football program that teeters toward excellence. These two programs have many traits in common and some marked differences. Together, they make a useful paradigm to explore and understand two unfolding events, one of which is tragic and the other almost comical. The football program seeks and recruits the best players from the best high school programs.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
IowaDad 6/17/2021 7:45:07 AM (No. 818213)
The NFL is holding that Blacks have lower IQ than whites, so Black ex-players deserve lower compensation for brain injuries. The AMA denies racial differences in IQ, and holds that all observed racial differences "are socio-structural in nature and, often, rely on discredited and racist ideas about biological differences between racial groups."
They can't both be right! Pitting the AMA against the NFL will be the super bowl of racism.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
lakerman1 6/17/2021 8:03:56 AM (No. 818226)
FYI - half a century ago, a physician had to be a member of AMA to have admitting privileges at a hospital.
Today, that is no longer the case, and membership in the AMA, the last time I looked, was 30 per cent of all MDs.
The modern day AMA is a political organization..
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Laotzu 6/17/2021 8:28:46 AM (No. 818257)
I can't imagine two organized groups that are better at protecting their own interests than the AMA and Blacks. (AARP was a historic contender but sold out under Obama.) While the ABA floods the market with more and more unskilled law grads, the AMA keeps a death grip on opening teaching hospitals and creating new doctors. While law school graduation speeches focus on senior lawyers and judges telling you to give your work away for free, the AMA has managed to make sure it's bills get paid by the federal government. While Whites everywhere are expected to go to the back of the bus and give up any place in academia, media, and entertainment, Blacks say "pay up." What a treat to see these two groups in diametric opposition of interests.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bpl40 6/17/2021 8:42:10 AM (No. 818282)
Saying blacks are good basketball players is a micro aggression. It (is taken to) mean they are poor at medicine, banking, law, network design or whatever. And if you say they are good at athletics because of their genes (an undeniable fact) the insult is even greater.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
seamusm 6/17/2021 8:57:10 AM (No. 818295)
A great read. But spotting a team of med school students 100 points wouldn't come close to enough even though quite a number of my classmates were athletes in their own right. I would skew the score the wrong way - by more than 100 myself.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
udanja99 6/17/2021 9:06:26 AM (No. 818303)
Quite frankly, I wouldn’t mind seeing the demise of both the NFL and the AMA.
At this point, the best medical advice I could offer to anyone is to make sure that your doctors are over the age of 40. There’s less chance that he/she was an affirmative action place holder.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 6/17/2021 9:57:36 AM (No. 818383)
Bogus comparison. The NFL is entertainment and people can choose to support or not. Medicine is a service that people can choose or not. One has competition (other forms of entertainment). Medicine is a legal monopoly (try practicing medicine in any state of the Union without a license). The market will dictate what the NFL does to compete in the entertainment business. However the market has no affect on medicine. Because medicine is a monopoly, regulations are such that a high standard for those few that are licensed are in place to insure quality of care, not equity of care. When are sitting on couch channel surfing you can choose to watch the NFL or not. But when you are lying on a gurney in a big city ED after 'peaceful' BLM or Antifa 'protesters' have beaten you to within an inch of life, will your only though be when the ED doctor arrives is whether or not he had a black, lesbian and transgender woman as lab partners?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Laotzu 6/17/2021 10:38:41 AM (No. 818450)
The NFL believes Blacks are uniformly less intelligent than Whites, and the NFL kneels for the National Anthem because America is racist. Interesting.
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