While Africa accounts for roughly 25% of the global disease burden, its people are largely invisible in randomised controlled trials.
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In medical research, precision matters. But both humans and machines tend to overgeneralize the results of health studies, saying more than what the data allows.
The lack of visibility by Black researchers and physicians in scientific literature perpetuates systemic racism in medicine.
John Carlisle’s method for spotting potentially fraudulent figures has already been adopted by two top medical journals.
Misreporting on the ongoing debate is likely to lead to more deaths from cardiovascular disease.
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