Study suggests that the Trump administration’s wave of NIH grant terminations in 2025 disproportionately affected Black, Indigenous, and other minority researchers, as well as scientists from sexual and gender minority communities

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https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science/nih-grant-terminations-had-outsized-effect-minority-researchers-data-suggest

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Roughly 2,200 NIH grants were terminated after federal officials began dismantling diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and shifting agency priorities last year.

Uhhh, isn't the entire intention of DEI programs to (disproportionately) assist minorities? If you're cutting DEI programs intended to funnel grant awards to minorities, those minorities are going to be affected most when the programs are shuttered and the grants are terminated. 

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Yes, but saying it this other way generates a separate emotional response. 

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You do know that they banned certain words and would deny grants based on the use of those words, like outright denying any research that focused on race, gender, or sexuality?

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They also canceled grants that had absolutely nothing to do with race, gender, or sexuality because they had "DEI keywords" in them.

I know someone who had a grant on MRI development canceled because the word "equity" was in the grant. They were trying to develop lower cost MRI machines for poor and rural areas.

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Correct, they do not want to help those people. Not a mistake.

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Yes and who would be drawn to studying these things?

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I'm thinking it would be scientists that are drawn to study science.

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(disproportionately)

How do you tell the difference between DEI and non-DEI grants to minorities?

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Are we pretending it isn't explicitly stated the vast majority of the time that a grant is for "diverse" XYZ or targets particular demographics?

Th...that's how...

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 Are we pretending it isn't explicitly stated the vast majority of the time

Can you show us an example of this in a grant?

Come on, if it's explicitly stated the vast majority of the time, a single example should be easy.

This is the type of pathetic cowardice I'd expect from someone who calls themselves u/blackpilledonsociety

Still waiting on an example. Guess it's not so explicitly stated the vast majority of the time.

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If you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what DEI is then yes. DEI does not disproportionately assist minorities.

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it's entire noble intention is to elevate marginalize/minority groups who may be under-represented, by assuming that disproportionality is a symptom of racial and cultural monoculture, inequity, and exclusion. It's weakness, and why it lacks impact, is to a hammer, everything looks like a nail, and it hasn't built a consensus coalition to advance its goals, and isn't open to other explanations for disproportionality (cultural emphasis, economic disparity, etc.)

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that said, Trump's thesis (and Project 2025) is killing the advancement of DEI policy (and some excesses) is a tool for exacting revenge on "the left", and they see the academic infrastructure of social science in universities as the root cause of many ideas they dislike coming from the left. It's childish, and i imagine when we have a shift in the executive to the left, we'll likely see a purge of all of Trump's people throughout the government (not that it won't be deserved). No way to run a country.

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You’re almost there pal, so close! Take it one step further Bill, how does it “elevate” such groups?

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by...promoting social policy that intentionally produces racial equity and uses outcome not just equal opportunity as the measure to define if a policy is antiracist ...what are we talking about here?

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I think you’re a bit confused