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It has to do with Justice Jackson’s comments that when Black newborns are delivered by Black doctors, they’re much more likely to survive, justifying racially discriminatory admissions.

We now know the study contained fraud🧵

I’ll start with their least bad offenses, before moving to the worst of it.

Firstly, the authors were warned not to make causal claims because they lacked the fixed effect I said they needed. They made those claims anyway.