Today the NYT published something about the pulse oximeter letter that came out in the NEJM last week. There are many things that piss me off about it -- knowing what I know about how all of this came to be -- but the basic thing is...

how they name all of the men in the article and give their appropriate titles (!) but fail to note that the person whose work inspired this NEJM letter, Amy Moran-Thomas, is also a professor of anthropology at MIT, not simply a chick worried about her husband w covid.

And if you read her Boston Review essay documenting the fairly long trail of knowledge about racial bias built in pulse oximetry, then you would also know she didn't just "dig up" this information, but read and engaged with the literature in a way that, ahem, appears to have

informed the story that this journalist wrote.

it's a reported piece with ethnographic analysis. It's really a fucking mess how the NYT has covered this.

And they have since updated the piece to refer to her as "an anthropologist at MIT"

I would also like to add that Dr Amy Moran-Thomas has published on other diagnostic devices and is well-known (and highly regarded) for this work in the fields of anthropology, global health and STS.

And just to reiterate: the essay she wrote came out in August. She was writing this well before then.

And it is clear that she is more than an 'informative' link for this article.

One other correction: I think they *did* refer to a woman physician source by her title — just not the one who did the work the article’s based upon