Wednesday, May 06, 2020

Should Identity Politics Dictate Vaccine Research? | City Journal

Should Identity Politics Dictate Vaccine Research? | City Journal
"The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are not taking the coronavirus epidemic seriously, to judge from their funding priorities. 
On April 20, those two agencies announced the availability of grants to increase the “diversity” of biomedical research labs. 
Academic virologists working on respiratory failure, say, could receive hundreds of thousands more taxpayer dollars if they could find a “diverse” student to add to the project. 
No scientific justification for the new diversity hire is needed; indeed, high school students are eligible, despite the virtual certainty that they will contribute nothing of value..."
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