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That conclusion, critics quickly responded, was flawed. "Race is a sociological concept, not a biological category," says Otis Brawley, the chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society, who wrote an editorial accompanying the study. "But this study brings race into medicine as a biological categorization." According to the Human Genome Project, people are indeed well over 99% identical; at the molecular level race is imperceptible. But even while Albain's and other similar studies don't do much to shift the prevailing medical opinion - that disparities in health are fueled mainly by socioeconomics and access to care - they remind...
...white men practice oral sex more often and earlier - a common way young people acquire HPV - than black men, according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So, with this particular cancer, the survival gap may well be attributed to sociocultural differences in sexual habits, says Brawley, who wrote an editorial accompanying the study. In the hands of another researcher, he says, perhaps these findings would have been chalked up to some unknown biological difference involving race...
...reports that aren't motivated by money or revenge are rare, according to forensic psychiatrist Park Dietz, who knows of roughly 50 U.S. cases in the past 20 years. When they do happen, they tend to make headlines. In 1988, Dietz testified in the grand jury investigation of Tawana Brawley, a black woman who claimed to have been abducted and raped by a gang of white men in upstate New York. The grand jury found her claims to be untrue. Dietz coined the term factitious victimization disorder to describe what occurs when someone claims to be a victim...
...earned him as many skeptics from both parties as has his controversial past, which is tainted by missing financial records, sketchy political donors and claims of anti-white racism. Sharpton has still not apologized for his 1988 rape accusations against a New York prosecutor, even after the accuser, Tawana Brawley, was found to be lying...
...peaceful protests after police shootings have quieted some, but hardly all, of the deep qualms aroused by his rabble rousing during the 1980s. Many people will never forgive him for claiming, with no evidence, that a young white prosecutor named Steven Pagones took part in the rape of Tawana Brawley, a black teenager whose story has been thoroughly discredited. A group of black businessmen has paid the $65,000 defamation judgment Pagones won from Sharpton in 1998. But Sharpton has yet to apologize...