Taxpayers Fund ‘Study’ Linking Trump Support to Opioid Abuse
Posted by freedomforall 5 years, 9 months ago to Politics
Thought you'd heard all the moronic ways taxpayers are looted? Now cancer research funds are being used for political purposes instead of research.
From the article:
Researchers led by principal investigator James S. Goodwin, M.D., the George and Cynthia Mitchell distinguished chair of geriatric medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, set out to answer the question “To what extent do socioeconomic measurements explain the county-level association of the 2016 US Republican presidential vote with opioid use?”
Using a national sample of Medicare claims data, the researchers observed:
Counties and states with the highest opioid use were often areas carried by the Republican candidate in the election. This is not surprising, because aspects of the narrative analyzing the presidential vote echoed themes that occur in explanations for high opioid use.
The authors drew the conclusion that support for Trump “is a marker for physical conditions, economic circumstances, and cultural forces associated with opioid use.”
From the article:
Researchers led by principal investigator James S. Goodwin, M.D., the George and Cynthia Mitchell distinguished chair of geriatric medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, set out to answer the question “To what extent do socioeconomic measurements explain the county-level association of the 2016 US Republican presidential vote with opioid use?”
Using a national sample of Medicare claims data, the researchers observed:
Counties and states with the highest opioid use were often areas carried by the Republican candidate in the election. This is not surprising, because aspects of the narrative analyzing the presidential vote echoed themes that occur in explanations for high opioid use.
The authors drew the conclusion that support for Trump “is a marker for physical conditions, economic circumstances, and cultural forces associated with opioid use.”
Another example of how the capital of producers is co-opted by looters to destroy free markets and individual liberty.
George was very close to the real life embodiment of Ayn Rand's character Ellis Wyatt.
Like snakes curling around each other acting on a agenda that is sick.
Physicians heal they selves.