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Scholars say DEI is having a potentially disastrous impact on the hard sciences
Campus Reform ^ | 6 Apr 2023 | Shelby Kearns

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...


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TO BE FAIR, IT WRECKS EVERYTHING IT TOUCHES.....
1 posted on 04/07/2023 8:57:31 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Just like the US feral government.


2 posted on 04/07/2023 8:58:33 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: Rummyfan
You can have affirmative hires in fields like sales, etc., but when it comes to hard sciences and skills-based jobs, you need to hire based on knowledge and merit, not DEI.

Imagine if the NBA imposed a DEI hiring policy that 30% of players must be transgendered?

3 posted on 04/07/2023 9:05:56 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Rummyfan

How can they tell with all of the climate BS they are already fielding?


4 posted on 04/07/2023 9:07:20 AM PDT by Reno89519 (I stand with Trump Against Political Persecution. As DeSantis Says, It Is Un-American.)
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To: Rummyfan
"We think that science depends upon meritocracy, which DEI undermines, perhaps fatally"

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!

5 posted on 04/07/2023 9:08:07 AM PDT by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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To: Rummyfan

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


6 posted on 04/07/2023 9:08:13 AM PDT by Roccus (Veritas, non verba magistri)
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To: Rummyfan

Only in the insane, Satanic West. Not in the rest of the world.


7 posted on 04/07/2023 9:15:29 AM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Rummyfan

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.


8 posted on 04/07/2023 9:17:54 AM PDT by Roadrunner383
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To: Rummyfan
Objectivity, they suggest, has been replaced with a hyper-fixation on identity.

Well, that is unsettling.

9 posted on 04/07/2023 9:23:18 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: Rummyfan

Potentially?


10 posted on 04/07/2023 9:23:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Rummyfan

yep


11 posted on 04/07/2023 9:25:16 AM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: Roadrunner383
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.

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.

12 posted on 04/07/2023 9:32:11 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Rummyfan

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.


13 posted on 04/07/2023 9:36:11 AM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: sauropod

I’m a retired chemist. Atom’s don’t have genders.


14 posted on 04/07/2023 9:45:02 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Rummyfan

Any sufficiently woke scientist is indistinguishable from a witch doctor.


15 posted on 04/07/2023 9:46:10 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Yo-Yo

“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!


16 posted on 04/07/2023 9:47:08 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Rummyfan
"We think that science depends upon meritocracy, which DEI undermines, perhaps fatally,”

Bluntly: The 'laws of physics' don't care about the color of your skin or the arrangement of your genitals.

17 posted on 04/07/2023 9:47:18 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Kriggerel

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.


18 posted on 04/07/2023 9:47:49 AM PDT by Reily (!!)
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To: NorthMountain

Science depends on money and serving those who give them the money.


19 posted on 04/07/2023 9:48:15 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Yo-Yo
You can have affirmative hires in fields like sales, etc.

Competence matters even there. "DEI" destroys EVERYTHING it infests.

20 posted on 04/07/2023 9:48:21 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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