What Does Diversity Have to Do with Science? | 5 Minute Video
Do you care about the race of your doctor, or the gender of the person who built the bridge you drive across? The latest trend across STEM fields claims you should. Heather Mac Donald, Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of The Diversity Delusion, explains where these destructive ideas are coming from.
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The promoters of identity politics—the idea that we are primarily defined by our race and gender—have taken over the humanities and social sciences.
That’s bad.
But not as bad as this: They are moving in on “STEM” – science, technology, engineering and math.
“All across the country,” a UCLA scientist reports, “the big question is: how can we promote more women and minorities by ‘changing’ (i.e., lowering) the requirements we had previously set for graduate level study?”
The National Science Foundation (NSF), a federal agency that funds university research, exemplifies this approach. Progress in science, the NSF argues, requires a “diverse STEM workforce.” Why this is the case they don’t bother to say. Somehow, NSF-backed scientists managed to rack up more than 200 Nobel Prizes before the agency realized that scientific progress depends on “diversity.”
No matter: in July 2017, it awarded $1 million to the University of New Hampshire and two other institutions to develop a “bias-awareness intervention tool.” Another $2 million went to the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M to “remediate microaggressions and implicit biases.”
The science diversity charade, as I discuss in my book The Diversity Delusion, wastes extraordinary amounts of time and money that could be going into basic research and its real-world application. If that were its only consequence, the cost would be high enough. But identity politics is altering the standards for scientific competence and the way future scientists are trained.
“Diversity” is now an explicit job qualification in the STEM fields.
The physics department at UC San Diego advertised an assistant-professor position with a “specific emphasis on contributions to diversity,” such as a candidate’s “awareness of inequities faced by underrepresented groups.” Solving the mystery of dark energy apparently now takes a back-seat to social justice. Maybe it was a coincidence, but all five candidates on UC San Diego’s short list were females.
If traditional standards are keeping women and minorities out of STEM fields, it stands to reason that changing standards must be the way to get them in. Or maybe standards are just another expression of the white patriarchy and thus no longer relevant.
An introductory chemistry course at UC Berkeley reflects the new “culturally sensitive pedagogy.” A primary goal, according to its teachers, is to disrupt the “racialized and gendered construct of scientific brilliance,” which defines “good science” as getting all the right answers.
This same diversity obsession extends to medical schools—not a happy thought when they wheel you into the operating room for emergency surgery.
The promoters of identity politics are literally playing with our lives. Medical schools admissions committees are now told to overlook the low test scores of black and Hispanic applicants in favor of a more “holistic” approach. From 2013 to 2016, medical schools admitted 57 percent of black applicants with a low medical college admission test score of 24 to 26, but only 8 percent of whites and 6 percent of Asians with those same low scores, according to Claremont McKenna professor Frederick Lynch.
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prageru site a single source challenge. 3:07 "med schools are told to overlook bad test scores"? who told u that? the voices?
Is it too much to ask for to be hired based on my skills rather than my gender?
I'm a straight-As Asian student with, a GPA of 4.0, I can't go to med school because I am too light, and I want to identify myself as black.
Doctor here: Racism and sexism in medicine is real and has real life implications that affect mortality and morbidity. This is partly because most research in medicine up until very recently was conducted by white male doctors, for white patients. I’m a palliative care doctor and it also affects advanced care planning and leads to a huge discrepancy in suffering at end of life. So…..your nasty sarcasm when discussing that is extremely frustrating and disturbing.
At my work, one “black female” was so toxic that her entire department was failing but could not fire her because she threatened everyone with racism or sexual misconduct. Wtf. Thats woke culture for you. When I stood up to her, I revealed that my dad is black & mom Asian. She told me I wasn’t “black enough” (I’m tan). 😂 the audacity of her “black privilege”! She was hired because of the diversity policy.
I applied to Texas a&m and they made me write a diversity essay which was pretty weird I think.
I for one think all this diversity training is great it will help with the world over population problem.
If doctors are not skilled more deaths.
tl;dr : "Oh no, science is browning!"
I guess things like aerospace are racist since white people pretty much only walked on the Moon or been at the International Space Station! We keep going backwards and soon the wheel will be a racist symbol since it was probably discovered by a white man!
If minority wants to have minority doctors who look like them, wouldn't they want to go to hospitals own by them?
Sweet now the biological sciences will be dumbed down! 😂
I'm still wondering why are companies so obsessed with diversity? Does it have something to do with lowering wages so that locals have to normalize themselves to a poorer lifestyle?
Damn, this gave me chills.
So scary!
They forgot about how sexuality ties in as well for the diversity aspect
Scientific progress depends on discovering and developing in accordance with Objective Truth/Reality.
Dumbing down America. The Left are so desperate they rig education too.
It has nothing to do with science.
It is not a very difficult theory to comprove. Just compare the actual situation of USA adopting these so called diversity politics, and the situation of China based only in meritocracy…Who is going the way better today? It is still time to change…
The "holistic approach" to admitting sub par medical students is terrifying to imagine. I, however, was an OR nurse for more than 14 years and witnessed first hand the dangers and consequences of allowing under qualified persons to practice medicine. I could care less what color my doctor or surgeon is, but he/she damn well better be top knotch at what they do!
Not to mention that by making these allowances, they basically say "we don't think women and minorities can ACTUALLY achieve standing in these fields without help."
https://youtu.be/4lc8aqj9fq0
This is so incredibly divisive. Everything she says is a logical fallacy.
At least try to be skeptical, people; instead of basking in confirmation bias like a cold blooded reptile.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité!
I am totally sick of all this leftist,liberal identity politics bullcrap about white privilege, racism and sexism and about how we need to diversify. What is the point of all this stuff, scientific academics should not be focusing on racial and ethnic diversity in their labatories they should focus on diversity of knowledge and intelligence, regardless of whether your black,brown,white or caucasian ,race and leftist ideology should not matter at all or at least not that much. The point is that scientific academics should not be appointing people just because of their skin colour rather than their scientific knowledge, that's just absurd and is minor favoritism
PragerU, once again this organization is SPOT ON!!!
Republicans are technically a minority in the U.S., and starting next January we will have a Democrat in power, so by the leftist SJW logic, Republicans should be treated way better than Democrats.
Once again, hit the nail on the head. There are many STEM courses that I have looked at taking that have the explicit goal of promoting women and minority jobs in the field. I am a straight, white, male… shucks I guess…
One reason you want diversity in these programs is because often time the technologies they develop are unintentionally designed only to work for white people. i.e. Driver less cars can't detected dark skin tones. And Oh yeah…because of historical disparities in treatment many black people want to see only black doctors especially dermatologists .
I don't get why Trump haven't done anything about this!
Only if these speech could reach the ones that make the laws
Sky and Telescope magazine recently got woke by writing an editorial about racism in astronomy. Who knew astronomy was racist? I'm a long time subscriber to the magazine but will not renew. Get woke, go broke.
And what happens when the bodies start dropping and lawsuits start causing bankruptcies
Neo marxist vieus,s infecting educationThere will be teouble aheas,big trouble.
This is simply racism and sexism. I don’t want an affirmative action doctor performing my vasectomy.
edison is not a scientist he is a thief and animal killer.
Incompetent ones want the diversity, others do not care who gets the job done.