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1 posted on 09/27/2020 5:00:27 AM PDT by karpov

research depends on funding, obama knew this and the scientists realized this as well, welcome to woke

2 posted on 09/27/2020 5:02:59 AM PDT by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")

On this subject, go to the CDC web site and search for “diversity”, “transgender” and “climate change”. I did this early on in Covid and got thousands of hits. All that content didn’t come cheap in time or money. These are political topics outside the charter of disease control by any fair and realistic assessment. It may help explain why the agency’s preparation for and response to Covid has been so weak.

3 posted on 09/27/2020 5:05:58 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)

Advancing knowledge, not imposing diversity, should be the goal of:

Pubic schools
Colleges and universities
Churches
MSM
CDC & UN
DOEd
NASA
DOJ
FBI
EPA
DOEn
HUD

4 posted on 09/27/2020 5:18:05 AM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)

5 posted on 09/27/2020 5:36:56 AM PDT by sauropod (I will not comply.)

It’s just Soviet style Lysenkoism.

6 posted on 09/27/2020 5:50:32 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)

“....the NIH would fund student researchers who were or had been homeless,...”
So, the gubmint is banking on the next vaccine or great medical discovery to made by a former squeegee man? There must a strong correlation between dirtying up car windows and breakthrough medical science I am unaware of..

7 posted on 09/27/2020 7:20:47 AM PDT by chuckee

About 900 years ago Islam was a militant but also intellectual sect. They had scholars who studied everything and anything and made real contributions. For example Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī is credited with laying out the principles of algebra (an islamic word). Crucually, muslim scholars also preserved and translated the words of Aristotle which would have otherwise been lost and which formed the basis of western thought as great western thinkers like Aquinas embraced them and devoured and debated the commentaries of Arab scholars like Averroes.

But people like al-Khwārizmī and Averroes worked in the 12th century and prior. After that it's like that light went out on Islamic scholarship. What happened?

It started with this: the fundamentalists had a problem. In their view, everything man needed to know was in the koran, and anything science could reveal which wasn't in the koran (or worse, contradicted it) was thus a lie created by satan. So basically science was to be avoided because it could only corrupt. They won the debate. And as a result Islam devolved into a primative, bloodthirsty gang that burn people for casting evil spells and other absurd medieval nonsense. For 1,000 years they have existed in this primative state. All because someone decided that agenda trumped science.

Woe unto us if we allow that to happen to the west. Its already beginning with the rise of 'consensus' science centered around political objectives.

8 posted on 09/27/2020 8:22:29 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)

10 posted on 09/27/2020 9:07:30 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)

Chairman Xi is smiling.

11 posted on 09/27/2020 9:29:54 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)

They would reject Madame Curie and Rosalind Franklin because they were white.

16 posted on 09/28/2020 1:15:23 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)

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