Mar 18, 2024 07:00 PM
Two seemingly contrasting opinions. One pleading for more involvement from the humanities in science. And the other bemoaning the influences that humanities descended ideologies already have on science standards.
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Lessons for scientists from the All of Us Research Program backlash
https://www.statnews.com/2024/03/15/all-...sociology/
EXCERPTS: There are no easy solutions for these thorny problems, but one place to start would be to bring more humanities experts into GWAS, particularly anthropologists, sociologists, and historians. [...] In a society still grappling with dangerous debates directly related to historically excluded populations, I see in scientists not only a moral duty to minimize harm, but also the opportunity to break from a tradition of isolating ourselves from society... (MORE - details)
The NIH sacrifices scientific rigor for DEI
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-nih-sac..._permalink
EXCERPT: It might seem counterintuitive to prioritize “diversity statements” while hiring neurobiologists—but not at the NIH. The agency for several years has pushed this practice across the country through its Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation program—FIRST for short—which funds diversity-focused faculty hiring in the biomedical sciences.
Through dozens of public-records requests, I have acquired thousands of pages of documents related to the program—grant proposals, emails, hiring rubrics and more. The information reveals how the NIH enforces an ideological agenda, prompting universities and medical schools to vet potential biomedical scientists for wrongthink regarding diversity... (MORE - details)
RELATED (wikipedia): DEI
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Lessons for scientists from the All of Us Research Program backlash
https://www.statnews.com/2024/03/15/all-...sociology/
EXCERPTS: There are no easy solutions for these thorny problems, but one place to start would be to bring more humanities experts into GWAS, particularly anthropologists, sociologists, and historians. [...] In a society still grappling with dangerous debates directly related to historically excluded populations, I see in scientists not only a moral duty to minimize harm, but also the opportunity to break from a tradition of isolating ourselves from society... (MORE - details)
The NIH sacrifices scientific rigor for DEI
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-nih-sac..._permalink
EXCERPT: It might seem counterintuitive to prioritize “diversity statements” while hiring neurobiologists—but not at the NIH. The agency for several years has pushed this practice across the country through its Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation program—FIRST for short—which funds diversity-focused faculty hiring in the biomedical sciences.
Through dozens of public-records requests, I have acquired thousands of pages of documents related to the program—grant proposals, emails, hiring rubrics and more. The information reveals how the NIH enforces an ideological agenda, prompting universities and medical schools to vet potential biomedical scientists for wrongthink regarding diversity... (MORE - details)
RELATED (wikipedia): DEI