(2022-04-16). Liberal Russophobia And War Propaganda. popularresistance.org The city of Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts prohibit discrimination based upon race, color, gender, disability, religion, and national origin. Such discrimination is prohibited by most cities, states, and the federal government as well. But one wouldn't know that due to a plethora of discriminatory acts carried out against Russian nationals. The latest perpetrator is the Boston Athletic Association (BAA) , which announced that citizens of Russia and Belarus who reside in those countries will be barred from participating in the Boston marathon taking place on April 18, 2022. The war in Ukraine, years…
(2022-04-16). [Correspondence] Understanding the social determinants of health — Authors' reply. thelancet.com We thank Priya Vart for the critical reading of our study1 of the association of parental education and global mortality in children younger than 5 years. Our models accounted for study-level controls for the confounding effects of wealth or income, partner's years of schooling, and sex of the child. The key challenge of systematic reviews is that they are limited by the characteristics of the data from published studies, and this constrained our choice of covariates. This constraint brings us to a larger point—namely, in characterising the average effect of published studies, we had to choose an ideal stud…