Abdul El-Sayed parlayed his race-obsessed medical research to fast-track, fund journey to Congress: critics

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed turned his weird science into a stepping stone, exploiting identity politics in academia to fast-track and fund his journey to Congress, according to critics and a Post review of his research.The radical lefty penned more than 50 papers while at Columbia Medical School between 2007 and 2014, with more than a dozen hyper-focused on race and religion.A 2011 study, for example, suggested white people could take a lesson from Muslims who have lower suicide rates — thanks to Sharia law.The study, titled “Suicide among Arab Americans” and funded in part with National Institutes of Health grants, looked at suicide deaths in Michigan between 1990 and 2007. The research, published in the Public Library of Science journal, found that Arab men had roughly half the suicide rate of white men, while Arab women had a rate 24% lower than white women.“According to traditional interpretations of Islamic Sharia law, suicide is considered haram or forbidden, and families of suicide victims can face ostracism within the Muslim community,” El-Sayed boasted in the paper’s conclusion.Some of his race-obsessed studies include “Birth outcomes among Arab Americans in Michigan before and after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001,” in 2008; and “Ethnic Inequalities in Mortality: The Case of Arab Americans” in 2011.Others tackled “Racial and insurance-based disparities in the treatment of carotid artery stenosis: A study of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample” in 2015 and “The Color of Debt: Racial Disparities in Anticipated Medical Student Debt in the United States” in 2013.El-Sayed last week was slammed for a “racist and eugenics” 2011 paper in which he argued Arab women should only breed with members of their own ethnic group for optimal health outcomes.“Our findings suggest that interethnic mating may be associated with increased risk for adverse birthoutcomes among Arab ethnicity mothers,” he wrote...