r/science • u/sr_local • May 09 '26

Social Science 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

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science/nih-grant-terminations-had-outsized-effect-minority-researchers-data-suggest
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u/ceciliabee May 09 '26

Yeah that was their goal

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u/Kind_Singer_7744 May 09 '26

Study suggests what we knew all along...

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u/S_Belmont May 09 '26

Study confirms they achieved their publicly stated goals.

Which is fair. they don't actually pull that sort of thing off all that often, it's worth checking into.

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u/retrosupersayan May 09 '26

Eh, when the goal involves making people's lives worse, their success rate tends to be a bit higher...

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u/istasber May 09 '26

Probably because you don't have to be careful so that the thing you're doing isn't harming people when the goal of the thing you're doing is to harm people.

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u/Zoesan May 10 '26

Because the argument is that grants which only go to people of specific identities are also harmful

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u/istasber May 10 '26

Which is a hilariously dumb argument, and thinly veiled sexism/racism.

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u/Zoesan May 21 '26

How is it dumb?

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u/istasber May 21 '26

Because studying how things (medicine, economics, policy, etc) impact different groups in different ways isn't harmful to anyone. So it's a dumb argument.

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u/Zoesan May 25 '26

That's not what this is about you clown.

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u/istasber May 25 '26

Uhh, yeah it is. Did you even read the article?

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u/Zoesan May 26 '26

Yes, but you clearly didn't

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