The Race Based Coefficient in Kidney Disease Epidemiology

5min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

There's a hesitancy to talk about human variation. In general, my entire platform is human variation is not a bad thing. I want to empower people to think about human differences as a neutral and maybe even positive fascinating thing. Instead of necessarily thinking, we need to say that all humans are the same because if we say that there are differences, that's necessarily going to lead to bad things. However, bad things only happen when you rank differences, when you say some types of people are better than other types of people,. which is not even a scientifically valid question.

Skin color! Hair texture! Biological anthropology! The incredibly informed and infectiously funny Dr. Tina Lasisi joins to chat sunscreen, ashiness, redheads, light skin, dark skin, in-between skin, beards, UVAs, UVBs, shower habits, cultural colloquialisms, vitiligo, melasma, medical math, ocher, freckles and more. Dr. Lasisi is about to become your new favorite science communication and internet friend. Also: sunscreen, people.

Follow Dr. Tina Lasisi on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter

Visit Dr. Lasisi’s website

A donation went to The Fieldwork Initiative