Abdul El-Sayed slammed for racist Columbia research paper he wrote concluding Arab women should mate with their own
Left-wing Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is being slammed over a resurfaced Columbia University research paper he authored with a “racist and eugenics outcome” that concluded Arab women should only breed with their own kind for optimal health outcomes.El-Sayed — who has repeatedly called himself a physician though he never completed his medical school residency — warned in the 2011 paper published in the “Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health” of the hazards of “interethnic mating” — which he insisted increased the risk of children being born premature.“Our findings suggest that interethnic mating may be associated with increased risk for adverse birthoutcomes among Arab ethnicity mothers,” he stated, back then going by Abdulrahman M.
El-Sayed.El-Sayed began the paper, titled “Interethnic mating and risk for preterm birth among ArabAmerican mothers,” with the bold claim that Arab mothers, “a growing ethnic group,” have “systematically better birth outcomes” than white mothers.He said American Arab women were 16% less likely than white women to give birth prematurely, citing his own research from 2008, while omitting to mention that same study found the gap disappeared after adjusting for maternal and socioeconomic factors.The research, funded in part by NIH grants, concluded that Arab women having children with white men was linked to 18% higher odds of preterm birth — below 37 weeks — and 24% higher odds of late preterm birth — between 34 and 36 weeks — compared to having a child with an Arab father.The study found no statistically significant difference in very preterm birth, before 32 weeks, based on whether the father was Arab or white, but didn’t spend much ink dwelling on that finding.Critics savaged the paper as pseudoscience.“This is ‘science’ with “a pre-ordained racist & eugenics outcome,” wrote Sen.Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) on X.
“Scary stuff.”Others wondered what the radical Democrat’s real ...