Luke Rosiak – Daily Wire Sept 10, 2022
A study — written by minority researchers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) — said that NSF, the multi-billion dollar government agency, was racist because it didn’t give enough funding to minority researchers. The paper called for more anti-racism efforts, even though by far the largest statistical disparity in the study was the low level of funding to Asians, perhaps a result of existing anti-racism policy which says that affirmative action should go to black and Hispanic applicants, but not Asians.
The paper — in concert with another NSF-funded paper that claimed physics is racist in part because physicists used whiteboards, and the bumbling response to the coronavirus pandemic by government science officials — reveal a U.S. government science apparatus that is flirting with giving up on measures that fuel prosperous, healthy, and technologically advanced societies, such as objectivity and merit.
“Systemic racism manifests at the NSF as higher funding rates for proposals by White PIs than those by non-White PIs, conferring a cumulative racial advantage,” the paper said. It said there was a “surplus” of grants to white people, suggesting a quota.
However, the paper’s data for the most recent year of 2019 actually showed that when it came to the size of grants, Hispanics got larger-than-average grants, while black students got grants that were about average. The major difference was that Asians got far less than average, and that the difference appeared to go to white applicants.
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That’s despite the fact that Asians dominate in U.S. math and science competitions. The glaring disparity could be the result of government anti-racism initiatives that prioritize black and Hispanic, but not Asian people, as oppressed minorities, it said.
“At NSF, the URM [Under-Represented Minority] category consists of Black/AA, AI/AN [American Indian], NH/PI [Pacific Islander], and Hispanic or Latino (excluding non-Hispanic White and Asian), and is used to track and allocate resources to programs aimed at broadening participation in STEM,” it said. “Reliance on the URM category may have also influenced NSF funding outcomes for Asian PIs, who are not considered URM yet experience the largest disparity in funding rates amongst all non-White racial groups.”
The paper also said that black people’s grant proposals were consistently rated by panels of peers to be of worse quality than others’, and the only explanation considered was racism — even though the reviewers didn’t know the race of the applicants. “A decade of efforts at NIH demonstrated that catchall solutions such as increased bias-awareness training and blinding peer review were inadequate as blanket solutions. … While self-reported demographic data are not visible to the reviewers, PI race or ethnicity may be inferred from proposal content or personal knowledge,” it said.
Awarding research funding based on merit perpetuates racial disparities, the paper suggested. “Outside experts with field-specific expertise provide feedback on the merits of a proposed project. … The use of merit review criteria to find and fund ‘the best ideas and the best people’ is motivated by a shared understanding that the integrity of research knowledge relies on individual and collective adherence to principles of objectivity, honesty, and fairness. However, a vast body of research shows that systems designed to facilitate impartiality and merit-based rewarding can instead perpetuate the very biases they seek to prevent,” it said.
It said instead of evaluating science projects based on the “proposal’s potential to advance knowledge (intellectual merit),” the evaluation process should weigh the applicant’s commitment to social justice. “Proposals can include evidence of healthy work environments, from the establishment and tracking of equity metrics, to improved diversity of leadership, workforce, and trainees,” it said. “As the federal steward for basic research and science workforce development, the NSF must lead efforts to achieve racial equity in STEM, modeling the change it aspires to see in other organizations and sectors.”
NSF confessed to its racism in response, with an unnamed spokesman telling a science publication that “there is still much [work] to do.”
The paper says its researchers were supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and “the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science at UCLA, which is funded by the Packard Foundation and Sloan Foundation.”
The authors were baffled why many scientists increasingly didn’t want to tell the government their race. “We also observe an emerging trend in the non-reporting of demographic information: from 1999 to 2019, the proportion of proposals submitted by PIs who provided information on their race decreased from 96% to 76%,” it said.
Democrats have claimed to be the “party of science,” even though science is now apparently racist. In February, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) slowed the approval of an affordable cancer drug, citing that it was Black History Month and not enough of the clinical trial subjects were black. In May, a top FDA official in charge of evaluating new drugs was involuntarily transported to the hospital for a “mental disorder,” according to police records.
That photo with the negro gazing into an electron microscope along side a potable computer is hilarious. As if “science” depends on creatures trying to use technology that their kind could never invent. Europe stopped developing around 1800AD. But now it is actively regressing to God only knows what.
If you insist upon giving money to the sick scum that are destroying the planet then you should give the money to the people from your own country. Funding foreigners is intrinsically dumb. They’ll take that “knowledge” back to their own country. You’re effectively funding their education system with the money from your tax payers. Anyone who starts calling “racist” is obviously part of the invasion forces taking over your country. Not only will you end up with your natives having a “lower” education, but you’re pushing their country’s level up whilst simultaneously pushing your country’s level down. This is exactly why the uk etc have an ever decreasing skill level vs asia etc. And the ones behind it are the foreigners in “your” gov. It’s just another way to steal your country.
Science and truth are Racist because the lower Races are sustained by lies and illusions e.g. Equality
Sum ting Wong.
Science full of FRAUD
Mystic and Yogi
Don’t worry about it…before the end of the century everyone in the USA will look like some brown Brazilian & be living on an all nonwhite planet of negroes, mulattoes, slopes & spics ruled over by the Jews & their mongrel ‘Messiah’. But hey, if you’re stupid/insane enough to support the Commies in WWII & now in Ukraine to kill off your own white race, then what did you expect the planet to become??
Coming sooner than you might think – Yellow is the new White.
Yellow supremacist! Yellow imperialist! Yellow Raaaaaaaaacist!
Ohhhh Boohoohoohoohoo, ad infinitum…………………..
I’m with Sam.
If anything, the covid debacle has woken up a lot of people to what science REALLY is all about. It’s a cult of death. “But science has saved a lot of people…” is what people will say and I return that statement with “But science made people sick in the first place.”
What I’ve learned in life is that we’re all healthy, loving beings when born. Those NOT born healthy are as a result of the mother putting bad things into her when pregnant. There’s also the fact as well of an unhealthy father’s sperm, again courtesy of what he put into him. So through food and liquid they both consumed, along with all the injections/drugs they’ve taken from science, then you’ve got to FUBAR people, passing it on to their offspring.
The whole science industry, runs under the problem, reaction solution situation:
1. Problem – we need to lower the population/make lots of money.
2. Reaction – we create diseases that don’t exist.
3. Solution – we give them drugs that kill them.
Were I in charge, every scientist would be lined up against the wall and shot. All drugs binned, no injections…nada!
This is the same situation with doctors, who are drug pushers for big pharma and dentists, who deliberately screw up your healthy teeth in order to have you coming back for appointments to fix the mess they’ve created in the first place.
The love of money has created a very unhealthy, materialistic, superficial and very damaging society.
People get sick courtesy of what they already have inside them, passed down through their ancestors, who’ve poisoned themselves through food, drink consumption and what science has put in them through drugs and injections, as well as what they eat, drink and take in drugs/injections themselves. How many people are on some kind of drug for whatever ailment? These drugs are killing them. They’re making them ill. They get dependent on them.
The whole drug/vaccine industry is just a money making, death machine; a terrible lie, to scare people into damaging themselves. Germ theory is the lie all of this comes from.
White Elephant seems intent on judging all by the faults of some.
Science is a wonderful thing and it involves seeking the truth.
A good example of what is NOT science but claimed to be so is the official narrative on Covid 19 over the last nearly 3 years. Science simply does not support it and there are doctors and scientific researchers who have been trying to expose the truth throughout.
Science and scientists are a blessing to mankind. Those scientists who have been trying to deceive are a curse and are not truly scientists.
@Robert
You contradict yourself. How can one be both a scientist and deceiver, as you claim, with the deceptive “scientist” running it?
You have admitted that science is used to deceive people. If science was purely a truth-based exercise, then why the deception?
Christian use the same argument to explain Christian Zionism -“They aren’t real Christian’s”
Well, if it’s so easy to be both a fake “scientist” and a fake “Christian” then maybe they aren’t so robust after all.
I can see at least three kinds of science–the objective one it claims to be, but lacking inner vision, the one driven by private interests of some kind, using fraud, and a real science that would let the whole mind operate and be “magic”. Many top scientists were psychic but did not like to admit it to their peers.
Robertvnik,
Why is science a wonderful thing? The manipulation of ingredients to make substances to harm?
Science?
The same science that creates the fertilizers they put on crops, that are killing us
The same science that creates the substances that spray the skies with that are killing us?
The same science responsible for the toxic ingredients in our foodstuffs, that create acidic pH levels, that create cancers?
The same science responsible for the creation of deadly biological warfare, that are killing us?
With the recent death of the Queen, you do know that they have NO FOODS that contain any chemicals in them? Why is that?
You would like to say; “but there’s the good science that’s helping us…” Like what?
Take anything and guaranteed you’ll find that the cause of the disease, they’re using science to ‘cure’, they created in the first place, in order to create the ‘cure’ to treat their disease.
It’s all, one big scam.
Look at what Louis Eisenberg, the Godfather of ADHD said, on his death bed?
“ADHD is a fictitious disease, created in order that pharmaceutical companies can not only profit but also fill young children with psychotropic drugs from an early age”.
And I wonder, Robert, if those children, later in life have terrible afflictions, the same drug companies have a cure for (read a treatable drug that won’t cure but keep the patient will enough to work, to make money, to pay for their drugs).
Snake oil salesmen is all they are.
There is no such thing as good science. Nothing but evil people seeking ways to further control man and dig deeper into Pandora’s box to uncover secrets never meant to be uncovered.
Science was created to kill and control man. I stand by what I said in lining them up against the wall.
White Elephant.
I agree basically with much of your response.
However.
Science is searching for truth based on facts. The vaccine related side effects are proven by true scientific research.
It may have been science was used to develop vaccines but science would also show that they don’t work.
My studies tend to convince me also that many of the fertilizers used in food production do harm. Science may well be used to develop them but science will also study the effects they have, good or bad.
Just as a knife can be use for good or for evil so can science.
Deception and science are not the same.
Evil people who use ways to control others may claim to use science but they use deception instead.
WElephant–two of my neighbours lived as long as the Queen on normie diets, and reaching a hundred will be normal for those who can dodge the Jew bullets