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RT Bit Paine ⚡️ (@BitPaine)It’s actually substantially worse than this tweet makes it out to be:The study in question claimed that black babies died more when cared for by white doctors.Not only was that finding spurious and disappeared when controlling for low birthweight infants, it DID find that white babies died more when cared for by black doctors.They were well aware of this, and an audit of the original manuscript showed a comment where they intentionally chose to downplay this because it “did not fi ...