{"id":11458,"date":"2015-05-10T12:14:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T16:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/?p=11458"},"modified":"2015-05-10T12:14:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T16:14:41","slug":"the-undiversity-of-clinical-trials-and-anti-islam-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2015\/05\/the-undiversity-of-clinical-trials-and-anti-islam-groups.html","title":{"rendered":"The Undiversity of Clinical Trials and Anti-Islam Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Here\u2019s what I\u2019ve been covering in the world of data at FiveThirtyEight this week:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/datalab\/a-few-people-lead-many-of-the-anti-muslim-groups-in-the-u-s\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Few People Lead Many Of The Anti-Muslim Groups In The U.S.<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">[T]he simple count of anti-Islam groups can be deceptive. Growth in anti-Muslim groups seems to be driven as much by a few key leaders founding multiple organizations as by new people forming independent groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Geller and Spencer are, between the two of them, the leaders of 17 percent (four of 24) of all the anti-Muslim groups that the SPLC tracks. Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the SPLC, explained that his organization lists each group separately because the groups may engage in different patterns of activity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/datalab\/a-few-people-lead-many-of-the-anti-muslim-groups-in-the-u-s\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Read more at FiveThirtyEight\u2026<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/datalab\/racial-and-ethnic-gaps-remain-a-big-question-in-medicine\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Racial And Ethnic Gaps Remain A Big Question in Medicine<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">[E]ven when Hispanics make it to the doctor\u2019s office to seek treatment, they may run into another problem. The medicines that they need were rarely tested on people like them. Some medicines act differently or are appropriate at different doses for particular demographic groups, so being left out of trials can prevent these benefits and side effects from being noticed. As of 2011, Hispanics were 16 percent of the U.S. population but only\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #008fd5;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3432572\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">comprised<\/a><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u00a01 percent of clinical trial participants. African-Americans are also underrepresented, comprising only 5 percent of the clinical trial participants even though they are 12 percent of the population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Under-representation in clinical trials doesn\u2019t just cause patients to miss out on benefits, it sometimes produces direct harm. \u00a0The FDA had to\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #008fd5;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/11\/health\/fda-requires-cuts-to-dosages-of-ambien-and-other-sleep-drugs.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">revise<\/a><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u00a0its recommended Ambien dose in 2013, because the old dose worked fine for men, but was too much for most women because they metabolized it differently. \u00a0The FDA came up with a new women\u2019s dose that was half the previous recommendation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/datalab\/racial-and-ethnic-gaps-remain-a-big-question-in-medicine\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read more at FiveThirtyEight\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s what I\u2019ve been covering in the world of data at FiveThirtyEight this week: \u00a0 A Few People Lead Many Of The Anti-Muslim Groups In The U.S. [T]he simple count of anti-Islam groups can be deceptive. Growth in anti-Muslim groups seems to be driven as much by a few key leaders founding multiple organizations as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":11318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Undiversity of Clinical Trials and Anti-Islam Groups<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Here&#039;s what I&#039;ve been covering in the world of data at FiveThirtyEight this week: &nbsp; A Few People Lead Many Of The Anti-Muslim Groups In The U.S. he\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2015\/05\/the-undiversity-of-clinical-trials-and-anti-islam-groups.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Undiversity of Clinical Trials and Anti-Islam Groups\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here&#039;s what I&#039;ve been covering in the world of data at FiveThirtyEight this week: &nbsp; 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