Billionaire entrepreneur and X owner Elon Musk tried several times to explain the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dei-could-get-you-killed-in-the-operating-room" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inherent risks</a> of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in medicine to Don Lemon, but the former CNN anchor just didn&#8217;t get it.
Musk argued that forcing DEI could potentially lead to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dei-puts-the-lives-of-your-loved-ones-at-risk-elon-musk-other-prominent-voices-respond-to-ben-shapiro-investigation-into-dei-in-medicine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lowered standards</a> for medical school and board certification exams — and said that if standards were lowered, the end result was likely to be more people dying because the care they were receiving was substandard.
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Elon Musk tries to explain how lowering the standards for doctors could result in more deaths. 
Don Lemon is unable to grasp the concept.
This entire exchange is incredible. <a href="https://t.co/QJ3efuvVAb">pic.twitter.com/QJ3efuvVAb</a>
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&#8220;I believe that if we lower the standards for what it takes to become a doctor —&#8221; Musk began.
&#8220;If we lower the standards,&#8221; Lemon interrupted. &#8220;Do you believe people are dying because the standards are being lowered?&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think that it&#8217;s yet an issue, but it could become an issue,&#8221; Musk replied.
&#8220;Ok, but the actual evidence in history shows the exact opposite,&#8221; Lemon claimed, although he did not provide any such evidence. Instead he argued that DEI was needed because of the racism inherent the medical system.
&#8220;If you look at how minorities are treated by the medical system, most doctors — most doctors now are white, and there are lots of mistakes in medicine,&#8221; Lemon continued, saying that he did not understand Musk&#8217;s logic.
Musk replied with an example, saying that if standards were lowered, surgeons who were not qualified under the previous — higher — standards might be able to pass their board certification exams. That, he explained, was likely to result in a lower standard of care at best — and, at worst, patients dying.
&#8220;The probability that someone will die, I think at some point, is high,&#8221; he said.
Lemon said he understood that, but that it was simply a &#8220;hypothetical&#8221; situation. &#8220;That doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s happening.&#8221;
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t say it was happening,&#8221; Musk shot back.
&#8220;You didn&#8217;t say it was happening,&#8221; Lemon repeated.
Musk shrugged: &#8220;I said it will. I said if we lower standards, people will die.&#8221;
Lemon, visibly frustrated, asked why Musk would &#8220;put something out there&#8221; if it had not yet happened.
&#8220;Because I don&#8217;t want it to happen,&#8221; Musk pushed back.
Lemon pivoted back to his claims of racial discrimination in medicine, noting that the majority of American doctors are white and only 5% are black.
&#8220;If the majority of doctors are white, are you saying that — and there are still these inequities, right? And people still — there are still mistakes. Are you blaming DEI for that?&#8221; Lemon asked.
&#8220;No,&#8221; Musk said, repeating again that he was only predicting the logical outcome if standards were lowered to accommodate DEI initiatives. &#8220;More people will die than if we don&#8217;t lower the standards. Therefore we should not lower the standards.&#8221;
Lemon tried once more, asking Musk whether he believed that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-posts-shocking-thread-revealing-dei-at-work-in-medicine-even-if-doctors-injure-patients-they-might-still-be-protected" target="_blank" rel="noopener">standards would be lowered</a> for minority doctors or for women.
&#8220;That&#8217;s what that article suggested, yes,&#8221; Musk replied. &#8220;At Duke University.&#8221;
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