Wisdom of Crowds

Can Rationing Drugs by Race Ever Be Justified? With Aaron Sibarium

Jan 21, 2022

58:40

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Does Skin Color Make You Obese?

04:40

Are We All Equal, but We're All Equal?

03:13

Is This a Screaming Lies About Racism?

05:46

Introduction

2min

The War on Ukrane Is Getting Worse

4min

Monoclonal Antibodies - Is That a Real Thing?

5min

What's the FDA's Guidance on the Free Beagle?

3min

The Gap in the New York Scheme, Asian Woman, 64 Year Old Wit.

5min

The Systemic Racism Argument

2min

Are You, You Knowt Measuring This?

4min

Does Skin Color Make You Obese?

5min

Is Race the Best Available Proxy?

2min

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Is This a Screaming Lies About Racism?

6min

11.

Is There Anything Is More Understandable About These Ideas?

2min

12.

Is Race Affecting Health?

3min

13.

Is There Really a Good Faith Argument for Awoke Idea?

5min

14.

Are We All Equal, but We're All Equal?

3min

15.

I'm Gonna Grant All That. It's Not About Black People.

2min

16.

Are You Open to That? I'm Not Philosophically Opposed to That

5min

17.

The Pantemic Response

2min

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In this week's episode, we were joined by our friend Aaron Sibarium, a reporter for the Washington Free Beacon. Aaron recently reported a piece showing how three states were rationing COVID drugs on race-based criteria. The article made a splash. Fox News covered the story, Trump referenced it in a speech (sloppily as always), and Twitter tried to rebrand it as a right-wing talking point.

Prioritizing woke ideology over medical realities can cost lives. But we tried to stay true to the Wisdom of Crowds ethos and made our best faith effort to ask whether race-based triage can ever be justified on practical or philosophical grounds. Is this the result of good intentions going off the rails, or is something more sinister at work?

Required Reading:

- "Food and Drug Administration Guidance Drives Racial Rationing of COVID Drugs" by Aaron Sibarium (Washington Free Beacon)

- "Hospital System Backs Off Race-Based Treatment Policy After Legal Threat" by Aaron Sibarium (Washington Free Beacon)

- "Hospitalization and Mortality among Black Patients and White Patients with Covid-19" (New England Journal of Medicine)

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