Posted on 04/07/2023 8:57:31 AM PDT by Rummyfan
At an Apr. 4 event hosted by the National Association of Scholars (NAS), Heather Mac Donald and Patanjali Kambhampati describe a new normal in the sciences. Objectivity, they suggest, has been replaced with a hyper-fixation on identity.
Mac Donald and Kambhampati are participants in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) debate on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
As they prepared to answer the proposition “Should Academic DEI Programs be Abolished?” (spoiler: they say “yes”), they sat down with the NAS’ Scott Turner to argue that DEI initiatives harm academic freedom, stall progress, and insult the historical figures who introduced some of the greatest scientific advancements.
"We think that science depends upon meritocracy, which DEI undermines, perhaps fatally,” Turner, a physiologist and Director of the NAS’ Diversity in the Sciences Project, told Campus Reform.
Turner facilitated the conversation with Mac Donald, an author and Manhattan Institute fellow, and Kambhampati, a chemistry professor at McGill University in Canada, to describe what DEI is doing to the sciences.
The heads of some major institutions such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are boycotting conferences if speakers are not deemed diverse enough.
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Just like the US feral government.
Imagine if the NBA imposed a DEI hiring policy that 30% of players must be transgendered?
How can they tell with all of the climate BS they are already fielding?
We don't 'think' -- we know its a meritocracy. Because it has to be. Nature doesn't reward stupidity kindly. And when these DIE hires ultimately can't do the math, and they don't have any PWGs (that's "Privileged White Guys") to do it for them, rockets are going to be exploding on the launch pad.
And the best part? When things catch fire, those large-and-in-charge will blame it on the -- you guessed it! -- Privileged White Guys!
Back when Nixon’s DoJ extorted AT&T into implementing Affirmative Action and legitmatizing the EEOC*, I worked for a subsidiary of AT&T. While discussing the situation with an old timer on the job, he prophesied that, “No matter how you shake it, the cream will always come to the top.”
He was wrong.
*Eventual Elimination Of Caucasians
Only in the insane, Satanic West. Not in the rest of the world.
A disaster for STEM progrmas in the U.S., not for the rest of the world. China and India have a billion smart individuals who will step into STEM jobs while U.S. graduates serve coffee and tea.
Well, that is unsettling.
Potentially?
yep
I very much hope you're wrong. When my son recently took computer science courses from the same university I got my BS in CS, he said that the math and CS courses still taught none of the woke crap (just like when I was in school). But the "core" liberal arts courses were full of it (perhaps even more than when I was in school). Maybe that's an Alabama thing. Or maybe it's common for real STEM courses to still avoid woke crap unless it's a hard lefty school (like MIT) where woke is in all courses.
DEI isn’t the only factor destroying STEM in the western world. Many colleges (including my own Alma Mater), knuckled under very quickly against the outraged cries from the humanities that STEM must NOT exclude Arts and Humanities, and hence, STEM quickly become STEAM.
I’m a retired chemist. Atom’s don’t have genders.
Any sufficiently woke scientist is indistinguishable from a witch doctor.
“Imagine if the NBA imposed a DEI hiring policy that 30% of players must be transgendered?”
They should be required to have half the players midgets!
Bluntly: The 'laws of physics' don't care about the color of your skin or the arrangement of your genitals.
Not surprising when you consider that most college\university administrators come from the non-STEM side of the aisle.
For public colleges\universities I blame the trustees and state legislatures. College administrations can usually keep the trustees & state legislators under their control with good SWAG - good football & basketball seats and other goodies.
Science depends on money and serving those who give them the money.
Competence matters even there. "DEI" destroys EVERYTHING it infests.
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