What Does Diversity Have to Do with Science?

The identity politics movement argues that people are primarily defined by their race and gender and perpetuates a victimhood culture.

UC Davis is an example of a university fully enveloped by identity politics, with 28 separate departments dedicated to various identity groups.

Radical feminists have attempted to remove due process when dealing with sexual assault charges.

Students who consider themselves members of victimized groups protest an oppressive hierarchy, despite being supported by an overwhelmingly liberal faculty.

Harvard has been accused in a lawsuit of discrimination by capping Asian student admissions.

WATCH: “What is the University Diversity Scam?” – Heather Mac Donald

Promoters of identity politics believe that STEM-related fields are disproportionately divided by race and gender because of “implicit bias.”

“All across the country,” a UCLA scientist reports, “the big question is: how can we promote more women and minorities by ‘changing’ the requirements we had previously set for graduate level study?”

The National Science Foundation (NSF), a federal agency that funds university research, argues that progress in science requires a “diverse STEM workforce.”

In July 2017, the NSF awarded $1 million to the University of New Hampshire and two other institutions to develop a “bias-awareness intervention tool.”

The NSF awarded $2 million to the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M, one goal of which was to “train faculty to use instructional strategies to address and remediate microaggressions and implicit biases….”

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.”

“Any academic scientist who wants to move up in administration—or apply for grants, leave, or access to the conference circuit—must be on a crusade against his fellow scientists’ microaggressions and implicit bias,” writes the Manhattan Institute’s Heather Mac Donald.

An introductory chemistry course at UC Berkeley has as its primary goal to “dismantle racialized, gendered, and classed hierarchies of competence in chemistry….”

Related Reading: “The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture” – Heather Mac Donald

Data from medical school acceptance rates and MCAT scores broken down by race suggest that medical schools are using racial profiling in their candidate reviews.

Black and Hispanic students tend to have lower GPA requirements overall than whites or Asians to enter medical school.

In 2017, the Columbia University Medical Center pledged $50 million, not to groundbreaking medical research, but to diversify its students and faculty.

Related reading: “Making the Right Move on Racial Preferences” – Heather Mac Donald

Differences in math precocity between boys and girls show up as early as kindergarten.

As of 2017, women made up 14 percent of architecture and engineering workers.

In 2017, women made up 25 percent of computer and mathematical workers.

James Damore, a Google engineer, was fired for questioning the company’s hiring preferences for females.

The National Labor Relations Board upheld Google’s firing of Damore on the grounds that his statements about “purported biological differences between men and women” were “discriminatory and constituted sexual harassment.”

WATCH: “What Happens When Google Disagrees With You?” – James Damore