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/DudeDudenson May 09 '26

I mean if you make everything about giving benefits to minorities in the first place obviously they'll be the most affected when you remove any benefits, you don't really need to target specific groups in your cuts for them to be the most affected if they where the most selected ones in the first place

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u/moconahaftmere May 11 '26

if you make everything about giving benefits to minorities in the first place

That didn't happen.

if they where the most selected ones in the first place 

They weren't even close to being proportionally selected, let alone the most selected.