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Trouble With Rapid Drug Tests; Fabricating COVID-19 Health 'Disparities'
46 minutes Posted Oct 30, 2023 at 8:23 pm.
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Roadside drug tests are unreliable, so why are they so widely used in the US? Researchers who make "health disparities" the focus of their work sometimes misrepresent their results. Here's a textbook example from a study that used pulse oximetry to measure disparities in COVID treatment.