This is a guest post by Dr. Sally Satel, a resident scholar at AEI and the staff psychiatrist at a local methadone clinic in D.C. Dr. Satel was an assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale University from 1988 to 1993 and remains a lecturer at Yale. She has published a slew of books, academic articles and public essays. In 2021, she was one of ten founding members of the
I have served on federal research agency panel reviews. Sadly, the proposals from HBCU's were clearly of inferior quality to many of the other proposals, some painfully so. The problem is not bias in the reviewers or funding agencies which if anything give TOO much benefit of the doubt to proposals by scientists of color. The problem is the low quality work submitted by academics many of whom, like Claudine Gay of Harvard, were advanced despite lacking merit. Affirmative action hires do NOT advance equality of opportunity but instead raise suspicion about the merits of any person in the protected group.
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Not just in medicine. Center excellence in everything!
Center achievement.
I want my surgeon appointed for her/his excellence, not his race or gender.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I have served on federal research agency panel reviews. Sadly, the proposals from HBCU's were clearly of inferior quality to many of the other proposals, some painfully so. The problem is not bias in the reviewers or funding agencies which if anything give TOO much benefit of the doubt to proposals by scientists of color. The problem is the low quality work submitted by academics many of whom, like Claudine Gay of Harvard, were advanced despite lacking merit. Affirmative action hires do NOT advance equality of opportunity but instead raise suspicion about the merits of any person in the protected group.