Biden picks diversity maven to oversee largest funder of the physical sciences in the US

American Thinker ^ | 05/07/2021 | Thomas Lifson

[SeekAndFind]

Heather Mac Donald warns us that the quality of scientific research in the United States is in peril, in a must-read essay titled "Diversity Over Discovery," with the subtitle "Biden's war on merit puts America's scientific edge at risk."  The immediate subject of concern is President Biden's appointment

... to head the Department of Energy's Office of Science, the largest funder of the physical sciences in the U.S., is a soil geologist at the University of California, Merced. She has no background in physics, the science of energy, or the energy sector. She has never held a position as a scientific administrator. The typical head of DOE's Office of Science in the past has had managerial authority in the nation's major physics labs and has been a physicist himself, Science reports. The new nominee's only managerial experience consists of serving since 2020 as an interim associate dean of UC Merced's graduate division.

Asmeret Asefaw Berhe is, however, a black female who has won "accolades for her work to promote diversity in science," as Science puts it. Berhe would be the first black woman to head the $7 billion office, and that is reason enough, according to the diversity mantra, why she should oversee X-ray synchrotrons, the development of nuclear weapons, and ongoing research on nuclear fusion. Her nomination requires Senate confirmation; if Berhe will not commit to hiring and grantmaking on the basis of scientific expertise alone, irrespective of race and sex, senators should vote her appointment down.

Alas, I doubt that Dr. Berhe's confirmation vote will cause her any heartburn at all, if for no other reason than voting against a Black female gets one branded as a racist misogynist —

[SeekAndFind]

More and more, the present-day United States is starting to resemble China during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, the decade or so between 1966 and 1976. China’s universities closed down as Red Guards — radical youths acting as mobs like BLM and Antifa — persecuted intellectuals, those with “bad class origins” (the Chinese equivalent of white supremacists as an object of resentment and vilification).

Anyone who stood in the way of them implementing Mao’s vision of a new order for China, one totally divorced from the corrupt past, with its “feudal” reliance on Confucianism, had to be swept away.

[butlerweave]

Well scientific research in the United States , you’re on your own

[butlerweave]

Picked because she’s a Global Warming Freak ?

[PGR88]

It seems that the vast majority of black women in the USA advance through government.

[GOPJ]

Asmeret Asefaw Berhe is, however, a black female who has won "accolades for her work to promote diversity in science," as Science puts it. Berhe would be the first black woman to head the $7 billion office, and that is reason enough, according to the diversity mantra, why she should oversee X-ray synchrotrons, the development of nuclear weapons, and ongoing research on nuclear fusion.

Behind the scenes commies are getting bolder in their choices of Biden's picks... it appears her major 'talent' was being born with black skin.

[17th Miss Regt]

And you know that she believes in Rockwell’s maxim: “Your skin color is your uniform.”

[GOPJ]

Marxists are influencing these picks... you know that, right?

And they have an agenda - probably something to do with the fact she'll have access to all our information on nuclear weapons (and beyond) and the newest research on nuclear fusion.

Commie dream come true.

Too bad our 'intelligence' traitors are obsessed with people who broke ONE window and damaged ONE door in the capitol... they could have earned their pay on this one...

The good news? When commies take over they'll murder most of our intelligence 'useful idiots'... because they could be dangerous to them ... Small comfort commies will off many of the butt kissers...but comfort is where you find it.

[GOPJ]

Marxists are influencing these picks... you know that, right?

And they have an agenda - probably something to do with the fact she'll have access to all our information on nuclear weapons (and beyond) and the newest research on nuclear fusion.

Commie dream come true.

Too bad our 'intelligence' traitors are obsessed with people who broke ONE window and damaged ONE door in the capitol... they could have earned their pay on this one...

The good news? When commies take over they'll murder most of our intelligence 'useful idiots'... because they could be dangerous to them ... Small comfort commies will off many of the intel butt kissers...but comfort is where you find it.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

“Marxists are influencing these picks”

Marxists are PICKING those picks.

[CDB]

More and more, the present-day United States is starting to resemble China during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, the decade or so between 1966 and 1976. China’s universities closed down as Red Guards — radical youths acting as mobs like BLM and Antifa — persecuted intellectuals, those with “bad class origins” (the Chinese equivalent of white supremacists as an object of resentment and vilification).

Anyone who stood in the way of them implementing Mao’s vision of a new order for China, one totally divorced from the corrupt past, with its “feudal” reliance on Confucianism, had to be swept away.

And, in the darkest days of China's "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (GPCR)," economic output declined by about 15 percent. Is this what Biden and co. are trying to do? G*d help us.

[beethovenfan]

On the road to scientific and mathematical illiteracy. China applauds.

[SuperLuminal]

The Communist Purge Is Growing Exponentially & Nothing Is Being Done About It!