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That Nature Medicine's image-pickers equated neglected Ethiopian orphans with HIV-positive foster children in Harlem (some of whom were Hispanic, by the way) reveals this disquieting tendency. The Nature Medicine report is about a major media organization apologizing for distributing inferior work, about the politics of medicine, and about HIV dissenters. The image chosen conveys nothing about those complex topics. Instead, it reduces the rich topic to a shocking tableau depicting neglected black toddlers.

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